The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison

1979

A limited run, Gregg Press hardcover compilation of Paingod and Other Delusions and I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

The book is notable in several respects. It contains the first author-corrected version of the story "Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" (even the version that appeared in The Deathbird had included unauthorized changes). And three essays -- a foreword by Michael Moorcock, an introduction by Ellison and an afterword by Robert Thurston -- would serve as the most thorough and perceptive analysis of Ellison's writings until Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever was published almost a quarter century later.

Collector's note

The book was issued without a dust jacket.

Contents

• Foreword (by Michael Moorcock)
• Introduction
• Paingod and Other Delusions
  • New Introduction: Your Basic Crown of Thorns
  • Introduction: Spero Meliora: From the Vicinity of Alienation
  • Paingod
  • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
  • The Crackpots
  • Sleeping Dogs
  • Bright Eyes
  • The Discarded
  • Wanted in Surgery
  • Deeper Than the Darkness
• I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
  • Introduction: The Mover, the Shaker (by Theodore Sturgeon)
  • Foreword: How Science Fiction Save Me From a Life of Crime
  • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
  • Big Sam Was My Friend
  • Eyes of Dust
  • World of the Myth
  • Lonelyache
  • Delusion for a Dragon Slayer
  • Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes
• Afterword (by Robert Thurston)