Edgeworks 2

1996

Spider Kiss, Ellison's hard-to-find rock novel, finally gets hardcover treatment -- and even 35 years after its first appearance as a Gold Medal paperback, it's still a marvelous book (though not "the best" novel about rock and roll; for that, check out George R.R. Martin's The Armageddon Rag).

Also in this omnibus edition: Stalking the Nightmare, the 1982 story collection. Neither it nor Spider Kiss has been updated here -- except by the addition of White Wolf's trademark typos -- but Ellison does offer a new and compelling essay, "Let's Pretend."

Contents

• Introduction: Let's Pretend
• Spider Kiss
  • Author's note
  • 21 untitled chapters
• Stalking the Nightmare
  • Foreword (by Stephen King)
  • Introduction: Quiet Lies the Locust Tells
  • Grail
  • The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists
  • Blank ...
  • Scenes From the Real World I: The 3 Most Important Things in Life
  • Visionary (with Joe L. Hensley)
  • Djinn, No Chaser
  • Invasion Footnote
  • Scenes From the Real World II: Saturn, November 11th
  • Night of Black Glass
  • Final Trophy
  • !!!The!!Teddy!Crazy!!Show!!!
  • The Cheese Stands Alone
  • Scenes From the Real World III: Somehow, I Don't Think We're In Kansas, Toto
  • Transcending Destiny
  • The Hour That Stretches
  • The Day I Died
  • 3 Tales from the Mountains of Madness:
    • Tracking Level
    • Tiny Alley
    • The Goddess in the Ice
  • Scenes From the Real World IV: Gopher in the Gilly