Dreams with Sharp Teeth

1991

Quality Paperback Book Club omnibus of I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream, Deathbird Stories and Shatterday.

This edition is notable for two previously uncollected stories, "As Another Sees Us" and "A Friend to Man," and for an essay detailing the origins of "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream."

Contents

• Introduction: Tossing a Brick Through Franz Kafka's Window
• I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
  • Echoes of Screams
  • 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
  • Memoir: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
  • Big Sam Was My Friend
  • As Another Sees Us
  • A Friend to Man
  • Eyes of Dust
  • The Sky is Burning
  • Lonelyache
• Deathbird Stories
  • Introduction: Oblations at Alien Altars
  • The Whimper of Whipped Dogs
  • Along the Scenic Route
  • On the Downhill Side
  • O Ye of Little Faith
  • Neon
  • Basilisk
  • Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes
  • Corpse
  • Shattered Like a Glass Goblin
  • Delusion for a Dragon Slayer
  • The Face of Helene Bournouw
  • Bleeding Stones
  • At the Mouse Circus
  • The Place with No Name
  • Paingod
  • Ernest and the Machine God
  • Rock God
  • Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W
  • The Deathbird
• Shatterday
  • Introduction: Mortal Dreads
  • Jeffty is Five
  • How's the Night Life on Cissalda?
  • Flop Sweat
  • Would You Do It for a Penny? (with Haskell Barkin)
  • The Man Who Was Heavily Into Revenge
  • Shoppe Keeper
  • All the Lies That Are My Life
  • Django
  • Count the Clock That Tells the Time
  • In the Fourth Year of the War
  • Alive and Well and On a Friendless Voyage
  • All the Birds Come Home to Roost
  • Opium
  • The Other Eye of Polyphemus
  • The Executioner of the Malformed Children
  • Shatterday