collections, compilations, anthologies & retrospectives

Harlan Ellison has written hundreds of short stories; they have appeared in magazines, anthologies, newspapers and convention programs. Relatively few have made their way into Ellison's own collections, but those collections provide the definitive guide to his varied career to date.

Ellison as writer

• The Deadly Streets
• Sex Gang (under the pseudonym Paul Merchant)
• A Touch of Infinity
• Children of the Streets (aka The Juvies)
• Gentleman Junkie and other stories of the hung-up generation
• Ellison Wonderland (aka Earthman Go Home)
• Paingod and Other Delusions
• I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
• From the Land of Fear
• Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled
• The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
• Over the Edge
• Partners in Wonder: SF Collaborations with 14 Other Wild Talents
• Alone Against Tomorrow (aka All the Sounds of Fear; The Time of the Eye)
• Approaching Oblivion
• Deathbird Stories
• No Doors, No Windows
• Strange Wine
• The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison
• Shatterday
• Stalking the Nightmare
• The Essential Ellison
• Angry Candy
• Dreams with Sharp Teeth
• Jokes Without Punchlines
• Edgeworks 1
• Edgeworks 2
• Edgeworks 3
• Slippage
• Edgeworks 4
• Troublemakers

Ellison as editor

• Dangerous Visions
• Nightshade and Damnations: The Finest Stories of Gerald Kersh
• Again, Dangerous Visions
• Medea: Harlan's World
• The Harlan Ellison Discovery Series
  • Stormtrack by James Sutherland
  • Autumn Angels by Arthur Byron Cover
  • The Light at the End of the Universe by Terry Carr
  • Islands by Marta Randall
  • Involution Ocean by Bruce Sterling
• Jacques Futrelle's "The Thinking Machine"

"And he knew, suddenly, what the dream meant. He knew, and kept it to himself, for the meaning of dreams is for the men who dream them, never to be shared, never to be known."

-- "Lonelyache," from I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream