Tables of Content

Books are listed alphabetically; book contents are listed in order of appearance. To locate a specific title, use the "find" function of your browser. All writings are by Ellison unless otherwise noted parenthetically.

Again, Dangerous Visions

• Introduction: An Assault of New Dreamers
• The Counterpoint of View (by John Heidenry)
• Ching Witch! (by Ross Rocklynne)
• The Word for World is Forest (by Ursula K. Le Guin)
• For Value Received (by andrew j. offutt)
• Mathoms From the Time Closet (by Gene Wolfe)
  • Robot's Story
  • Against the Lafayette Escadrille
  • Loco Parentis
• Time Travel for Pedestrians (by Ray Nelson)
• Christ, Old Student in a New School (by Ray Bradbury)
• King of the Hill (by Chad Oliver)
• The 10:00 Report is Brought to You By ... (by Edward Bryant)
• The Funeral (by Kate Wilhelm)
• Harry the Hare (by James B. Hemesath)
• When It Changed (by Joanna Russ)
• The Big Space Fuck (by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
• Bounty (by T.L. Sherred)
• Still-Life (by K.M. O'Donnell)
• Stoned Counsel (by H.H. Hollis)
• Monitored Dreams & Strategic Cremations (by Bernard Wolfe)
  • The Bisquit Position
  • The Girl With Rapid Eye Movements
• With a Finger in My I (by David Gerrold)
• In the Barn (by Piers Anthony)
• Soundless Evening (by Lee Hoffman)
• [spot] (by Gahan Wilson)
• The Test-Tube Creature, Afterward (by Joan Bernott)
• And the Sea Like Mirrors (by Gregory Benford)
• Bed Sheets are White (by Evelyn Lief)
• Tissue (by James Sallis)
  • at the fitting shop
  • 53rd american dream
• Elouise and the Doctors of the Planet Pergamon (by Josephine Saxton)
• Chuck Berry, Won't You Please Come Home (by Ken McCullough)
• Epiphany for Aliens (by David Kerr)
• Eye of the Beholder (by Burt K. Filer)
• Moth Race (by Richard Hill)
• In Re Glover (by Leonard Tushnet)
• Zero Gee (by Ben Bova)
• A Mouse In the Walls of the Global Village (by Dean R. Koontz)
• Getting Along (by James Blish)
• Totenbuch (by A. Parra (y Figueredo))
• Things Lost (by Thomas M. Disch)
• With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama (by Richard A. Lupoff)
• Lamia Mutable (by M. John Harrison)
• Last Train to Kankakee (by Robin Scott)
• Empire of the Sun (by Andrew Weiner)
• Ozymandias (by Terry Carr)
• The Milk of Paradise (by James Tiptree Jr.)

(Each story is preceded by comments from Ellison and followed by comments from the author.)

All the Lies That Are My Life

• Introduction by Robert Silverberg
• All the Lies That Are My Life
• Afterword by Norman Spinrad
• Afterword by Vonda McIntyre
• Afterword by Robert Sheckley
• After the Word by Philip José Farmer
• Footnotes to Farmer Afterword by Harlan Ellison
• Afterword by Thomas M. Disch
  • Shakespeare and Harlan
  • Dickens and Harlan
  • Death and Harlan
• Afterword by Edward Bryant
• About the Illustrator

Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Science Fiction (alternate titles: All the Sounds of Fear; The Time of the Eye)

• Introduction: The Song of the Soul
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
• The Discarded
• Deeper Than the Darkness
• Blind Lightning
• All the Sounds of Fear
• The Silver Corridor
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
• Bright Eyes
• Introduction, In Brief (Time of the Eye)
• Are You Listening?
• Try a Dull Knife
• In Lonely Lands
• Eyes of Dust
• Nothing for My Noon Meal
• O Ye of Little Faith
• The Time of the Eye
• Life Hutch
• The Very Last Day of a Good Woman
• Night Vigil
• Lonelyache
• Pennies, Off a Dead Man's Eyes

Angry Candy

• Introduction: The Wind Took Your Answer Away
• Paladin of the Lost Hour
• Footsteps
• Escapegoat
• When Auld's Acquaintance Is Forgot
• Broken Glass
• On the Slab
• Prince Myshkin, and Hold the Relish
• The Region Between
• Laugh Track
• Eidolons
• Soft Monkey
• Stuffing
• With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole
• Quicktime
• The Avenger of Death
• Chained to the Fast Lane in the Red Queen's Race
• The Function of Dream Sleep

Autumn Angels

• About the Cover Artist
• The Φ Ψ Ω of A B C: An Introduction (by Harlan Ellison)
• Six untitled chapters, interspersed with five "Slices of Life"

Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow

• Foreword: Approaching Ellison (by Michael Crichton)
• Introduction: Reaping the Whirlwind
• Knox
• Cold Friend
• Kiss of Fire
• Paulie Charmed the Sleeping Woman
• I'm Looking for Kadak
• Silent in Gehenna
• Erotophobia
• One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty
• Ecowareness
• Catman
• Hindsight: 480 Seconds

The Book of Ellison

• Introduction (by Isaac Asimov)
• The Book About Ellison
  • Essence of Ellison (by Lee Hoffman)
  • Harlan Ellison (by Ted White)
  • The Jet-Propelled Birdbath (by Robert Silverberg)
  • 7,000 More Words About Harlan Ellison (by David Gerrold)
  • Harlan Ellison and the Formula Story (by Joseph Patrouch Jr.)
• The Book By Ellison
  • Ellison on Ellison
  • School for Apprentice Sorcerors
  • Getting Stiffed
  • A Time for Daring
  • A Voice From the Styx
  • The Whore with a Heart of Iron Pyrites; or, Where Does a Writer Go to Find a Maggie?
  • Voe Doe Dee Oh Doe
  • Hardcover
  • A Walk Around the Block
• Harlan Ellison: A Nonfiction Checklist (by Leslie Kay Swigart)

Children of the Streets (alternate title: The Juvies)

• 2004: Looking Down the Street -- A New Introduction to Children of the Streets (2004 edition)
• Introduction
• Ten Weeks in Hell
• No Way Out
• Matinee Idyll
• No Game for Children
• The Rough Boys
• A Tiger at Nightfall
• School for Killers
• Memory of aMuted Trumpet
• Stand Still and Die
• Gang Girl

Dangerous Visions

• Foreword I: The Second Revolution (by Isaac Asimov)
• Foreword II: Harlan and I (by Isaac Asimov)
• Introduction: Thirty-two Soothsayers
• Evensong (by Lester del Rey)
• Flies (by Robert Silverberg)
• The Day After the Day the Martians Came (by Frederik Pohl)
• Riders of the Purple Wage (by Philip Jose Farmer)
• The Malley System (by Miriam Allen deFord)
• A Toy for Juliette (by Robert Bloch)
• The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World
• The Night That All Time Broke Out (by Brian W. Aldiss)
• The Man Who Went to the Moon -- Twice (by Howard Rodman)
• Faith of Our Fathers (by Philip K. Dick)
• The Jigsaw Man (by Larry Niven)
• Gonna Roll the Bones (by Fritz Leiber)
• Lord Randy, My Son (by Joe L. Hensley)
• Eutopia (by Poul Anderson)
• Incident in Moderan (by David R. Bunch)
• The Escaping (by David R. Bunch)
• The Doll-House (by James Cross)
• Sex and/or Mr. Morrison (by Carol Emshwiller)
• Shall the Dust Praise Thee? (by Damon Knight)
• If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? (by Theodore Sturgeon)
• What Happened to Auguste Clarot? (by Larry Eisenberg)
• Ersatz (by Harry Slesar)
• Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird (by Sonya Dorman)
• The Happy Breed (by John T. Sladek)
• Encounter with a Hick (by Jonathan Brand)
• From the Government Printing Office (by Kris Neville)
• Land of the Great Horses (by R.A. Lafferty)
• The Recognition (by J.G. Ballard)
• Judas (by John Brunner)
• Test to Destruction (by Keith Laumer)
• Carcinoma Angels (by Norman Spinrad)
• Auto-Da-Fe (by Roger Zelazny)
• Aye, and Gomorrah ... (by Samuel R. Delany)

(Each story is preceded by comments from Ellison and followed by comments from the author.)

The Deadly Streets

• New Introduction: Avoiding Dark Places (1975 edition)
• Introduction: Some Sketches of the Damned
• Rat Hater (1975 edition)
• I'll Bet You a Death
• We Take Care of Our Dead
• The Man With the Golden Tongue (1975 edition)
• Johnny Slice's Stoolie
• Joy Ride
• Buy Me That Blade
• The Hippie-Slayer (1975 edition)
• Kid Killer
• With a Knife in Her Hand
• Sob Story (with Henry Slesar)
• Look Me in the Eye, Boy!
• The Dead Shot
• Ship-Shape Pay-Off (with Robert Silverberg) (1975 edition)
• Made in Heaven
• Students of the Assassin

Deathbird Stories: A Pantheon of Modern Gods

• 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

Demon with a Glass Hand

• No chapter headings

Doomsman

• no chapter headings

Dreams with Sharp Teeth

• 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

An Edge in My Voice

• Foreword (by Tom Snyder)
• Introduction: Ominous Remarks for Late in the Evening
• 61 chapters, dated 25 March 1980 through 21 August 1984, punctuated with many "interim memos," letters and other miscellaneous asides
• Afterword
• Index

Edgeworks 1

• Introduction: Good Morning, Folks; I Am Not Kathie Lee Gifford
• Over the Edge
  • Foreword: The Frontiers of Edgeville (by Norman Spinrad)
  • Introduction: Brinksmanship
  • Pennies, Off A Dead Man's Eyes
  • The End of the Time of Leinard
  • 3 Faces of Fear: An essay
  • Blind Lightning
  • Walk the High Steel
  • Shadow Play
  • The Words in Spock's Mouth: An essay
  • From a Great Height
  • Night Vigil
  • Xenogenesis: An essay
  • Rock God
  • Ernest and the Machine God
• An Edge in My Voice
  • Foreword (by Tom Snyder)
  • Introduction: Ominous Remarks for Late in the Evening
  • 61 chapters, dated 25 March 1980 through 21 August 1984, punctuated with many "interim memos," letters and other miscellaneous asides
  • Afterword
  • Index

Edgeworks 2

• 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

Edgeworks 3

• Introduction: " ... And Now, Batting in the DBS Slot ..."
• The Harlan Ellison Hornbook
  • Author's Note
  • Foreword: The Cricket Beneath the Hammer (by Robert Crais)
  • Introduction: The Lost Secrets of East Atlantis
  • 46 columns, dated 26 October 1972 to June-July 1977
    • 1: Everything I Know About My Father
    • 2: Valerie, Part One
    • 3: Valerie, Part Two
    • 4: Valerie, Part Three
    • 5: Getting Stiffed
    • 6: The Tyranny of the Weak, and Some Foreshadowing
    • 7: With Bloch and Bormann in Brazil
    • 8: The First of Three Culinary Comments
    • 9: No Offense Intended, but Fuck Xmas!
    • 10: The Day I Died
    • 11 though 20: Harlan Ellison's Movie, a Complete Screenplay (included in second half of this volume)
    • 21: Fair Weather Friends, Summer Soldiers, and Sunshine Patriots
    • 22: Troubling Thoughts About Godhood, Part One
    • 23: Bless That Pesky Wabbit
    • 24: Troubling Thoughts About Godhood, Part Two
    • 25: Where Shadow Collides with Reality: A Preamble
    • 26: When I Was a Hired Gun, Part One
    • 27: When I Was a Hired Gun, Part Two
    • 28: A Rare, Kindly Tought
    • 29: 3 Small Pleasures for a More Endurable Existence
    • 30: Varieties of Venue
    • 31: Why I Fantasize About Using an AK-47 on Teenagers
    • 32: In Which the Imp of Delight Tries to Make the World Smile
    • 33: I Go to Bed Angry Every Night, and Wake Up Angrier the Next Morning
    • 34: Ahbhu
    • 35: Death Row, San Quentin, Part One
    • 36: Death Row, San Quentin, Part Two
    • 37: College Days, Part One
    • 38: The Death-Wish of a Golden Idea
    • 39: College Days, Part Two
    • 40: College Days, Part Three
    • 41: The Last of Three Culinary Comments, Gonzo-Style
    • 42: Out of the Mail Bag
    • 43: Oh, Dear, He's Not Going to Do Xmas Again, Is He?
    • 44: The Death of My Mother, Serita R. Ellison
    • 45: Enormous Dumb
    • 46: Revealed at Last! What Killed the Dinosaurs! And You Don't Look So Terrific Yourself
  • Appendix A: Comic of the Absurd
  • Appendix B: Dogging It in the Great American Heartland
  • Appendix C: Darkness Falls in the City of the Angels
  • Appendix D: Lenny Bruce is Dead
  • Appendix E: Did Your Mother Throw Yours Out?
  • Appendix F: The Song the Sixties Sang
  • Appendix G: The Dingbat Appendix
  • Index (by Gil Lamont)
• Harlan Ellison's Movie

Edgeworks 4

• Introduction: Dealing With the Lot of Y'all (Part One)
• Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled
  • Introduction: Having an Affair With a Troll
  • The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie
  • The Universe of Robert Blake
  • G. B. K. -- A Many-Flavored Bird
  • Neither Your Jenny Nor Mine
  • Riding the Dark Train Out
  • Moonlighting
  • What I Did on My Vacation This Summer, By Little Bobby Hirschhorn, Age 27
  • Mona at Her Windows
  • Blind Bird, Blind Bird, Go Away From Me!
  • Passport
  • I Curse the Lesson and Bless the Knowledge
  • Battle Without Banners
  • A Path Through the Darkness
  • A Prayer for No One's Enemy
  • Punky & the Yale Men
• The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
  • Foreward (by Neil Gaiman)
  • Introduction: The Waves in Rio
  • The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
  • Along the Scenic Route
  • Phoenix
  • Asleep: With Still Hands
  • Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R.
  • Try a Dull Knife
  • The Pitll Pawob Division
  • The Place With No Name
  • White on White
  • Run for the Stars
  • Are You Listening?
  • S.R.O.
  • Worlds to Kill
  • Shattered Like a Glass Goblin
  • A Boy and His Dog

Ellison Wonderland (alternate title: Earthman, Go Home!)

• Introduction: The Man on the Mushroom (1974 edition)
• Commuter's Problem
• Do-It-Yourself (with J. Hensley)
• The Silver Corridor
• All the Sounds of Fear
• Gnomebody
• The Sky is Burning
• Mealtime
• The Very Last Day of a Good Woman
• Battlefield
• Deal From the Bottom
• The Wind Beyond the Mountains
• The Forces that Crush (1962, 1964 editions)
• Back to the Drawing Boards (1974 edition)
• Nothing for My Noon Meal
• Hadj
• Rain, Rain, Go Away
• In Lonely Lands

The Essential Ellison

• Prolegemenon: Millennial Musings (2001 edition)
• Introduction: Sublime Rebel (by Terry Dowling)
• Lagniappe (by Terry Dowling) (2001 edition)
• Beginnings
  • The Sword of Parmagon
  • The Gloconda
  • The Wilder One
  • The Saga of Machine Gun Joe
  • Introduction to Glowworm (2001 edition)
  • Glowworm
  • Life Hutch
  • S.R.O.
• Worlds of Terror
  • Lonelyache
  • Punky & the Yale Men
  • A Prayer for No One's Enemy
  • Pulling Hard Time (2001 edition)
• Worlds of Love
  • In Lonely Lands
  • The Time of the Eye
  • Grail
• That New Old-Time Religion
  • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
  • Corpse
  • The Whimper of Whipped Dogs
• A Stab of Merriment
  • The Voice in the Garden
  • Erotophobia
  • Mom
  • Ecowareness
  • The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists
  • Dept. of "What Was the Question?" Dept.
  • Dept. of "Trivial Pursuit" Dept.
  • Prince Myshkin, and Hold the Relish (2001 edition)
• Trouble with Women
  • The Very Last Day of a Good Woman
  • Valerie: A True Memoir
  • The Other Eye of Polyphemus
  • All the Birds Come Home to Roost
• To the Mattresses with Mean Demons
  • The Tombs: An Excerpt from Memos from Purgatory
  • "Our Little Miss"
  • A Love Song for Jerry Falwell
  • Telltale Tics and Tremors
  • True Love: Groping for the Holy Grail
  • Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W
  • The Function of Dream Sleep (2001 edition)
• Rococo Technology
  • The Sky is Burning
  • The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World
  • Along the Scenic Route
  • The Song the Zombie Sang (with Robert Silverberg)
  • Knox
  • With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole (2001 edition)
• Heart's Blood
  • From Alabamy, with Hate
  • My Father
  • My Mother
  • Tired Old Man
  • Gopher in the Gilly
  • Strange Wine
• Nights & Days in Good Old Hollyweird
  • The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie
  • Flintlock: An Unproduced Teleplay
  • The Man on the Mushroom
  • Somehow, I Don't Think We're in Kansas, Toto
  • Face-Down in Gloria Swanson's Swimming Pool
• Petards & Hangings
  • Soldier
  • The Night of Delicate Terrors
  • Shattered Like a Glass Goblin
  • At the Mouse Circus
• Shadows from the Past
  • Free with This Box!
  • Final Shtick
  • One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty
  • Jeffty is Five
• Contracts on the Soul
  • Daniel White for the Greater Good
  • Neither Your Jenny Nor Mine
  • Alive and Well and on a Friendless Voyage
• The Classics
  • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
  • Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes
  • A Boy and His Dog
  • The Deathbird
  • Paladin of the Lost Hour (2001 edition)
  • Soft Monkey (2001 edition)
  • Mefisto in Onyx (2001 edition)
• Process (2001 edition)
  • Where I Shall Dwell in the Next World (2001 edition)
  • The Museum on Cyclops Avenue (2001 edition)
  • Objects of Desire in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (2001 edition)
  • Man on Spikes (2001 edition)
  • Introduction to "Tired Old Man" (2001 edition)
  • The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (2001 edition)
• Dark Liberation
  • The Thick Red Moment
  • The Man Who Was Heavily Into Revenge
  • Driving In the Spikes
  • An Edge in My Voice, Installment 55 (2001 edition)
  • The Streets, Installment 1 (2001 edition)
  • Xenogensis (2001 edition)
• Afterword

The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison

• 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)

Footsteps

• 1980 Introduction
• Author's Footnote to This Edition
• Footsteps

From the Land of Fear

• Foreword: In Praise of His Spirits Noble and Otherwise (by Roger Zelazny)
• Introduction: Where the Stray Dreams Go
• The Sky is Burning
• My Brother Paulie
• The Time of the Eye
• Life Hutch
• Battle Without Banners
• Back to the Drawing Boards
• A Friend to Man
• "We Mourn for Anyone ..."
• The Voice in the Garden
• Soldier
• Soldier (teleplay)

Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation

• Foreword (by Frank M. Robinson)
• Introduction: The Children of Nights (1961 edition)
• New Introduction: The Children of Nights (1975 edition)
• Final Shtick
• Gentleman Junkie
• May We Also Speak? Four Statements from the Hung-Up Generation
  • Now You're on the Box!
  • The Rocks of Gogroth
  • Payment Returned, Unopened
  • The Truith
• Daniel White for the Greater Good
• Lady Bug, Lady Bug
• Free With This Box!
• There's One on Every Campus
• At the Mountains of Blindness
• This is Jackie Spinning
• No Game for Children
• The Late, Great Arnie Draper
• High Dice
• Enter the Fanatic, Stage Center
• Someone is Hungrier
• Memory of a Muted Trumpe
• The Time of the Eye (1961 edition)
• Turnpike (1975 edition)
• Sally in Our Alley
• The Silence of Infidelity
• Have Coolth
• RFD #2 (with H. Slesar)
• No Fourth Commandment
• The Night of Delicate Terrors

The Glass Teat: Essays of Opinion on Television

• New Introduction: The Glass Teat Revisited: A Supplementary Introduction (1975 and 1983 editions)
• 23" Worth of Introduction
• 53 chapters, dated 4 October 1968 through 30 January 1970

The Harlan Ellison Hornbook

• Author's Note
• Foreword: The Cricket Beneath the Hammer (by Robert Crais)
• Introduction: The Lost Secrets of East Atlantis
• 46 columns, dated 26 October 1972 to June-July 1977
  • 1: Everything I Know About My Father
  • 2: Valerie, Part One
  • 3: Valerie, Part Two
  • 4: Valerie, Part Three
  • 5: Getting Stiffed
  • 6: The Tyranny of the Weak, and Some Foreshadowing
  • 7: With Bloch and Bormann in Brazil
  • 8: The First of Three Culinary Comments
  • 9: No Offense Intended, but Fuck Xmas!
  • 10: The Day I Died
  • 11 though 20: Harlan Ellison's Movie, a Complete Screenplay (not included in this edition)
  • 21: Fair Weather Friends, Summer Soldiers, and Sunshine Patriots
  • 22: Troubling Thoughts About Godhood, Part One
  • 23: Bless That Pesky Wabbit
  • 24: Troubling Thoughts About Godhood, Part Two
  • 25: Where Shadow Collides with Reality: A Preamble
  • 26: When I Was a Hired Gun, Part One
  • 27: When I Was a Hired Gun, Part Two
  • 28: A Rare, Kindly Tought
  • 29: 3 Small Pleasures for a More Endurable Existence
  • 30: Varieties of Venue
  • 31: Why I Fantasize About Using an AK-47 on Teenagers
  • 32: In Which the Imp of Delight Tries to Make the World Smile
  • 33: I Go to Bed Angry Every Night, and Wake Up Angrier the Next Morning
  • 34: Ahbhu
  • 35: Death Row, San Quentin, Part One
  • 36: Death Row, San Quentin, Part Two
  • 37: College Days, Part One
  • 38: The Death-Wish of a Golden Idea
  • 39: College Days, Part Two
  • 40: College Days, Part Three
  • 41: The Last of Three Culinary Comments, Gonzo-Style
  • 42: Out of the Mail Bag
  • 43: Oh, Dear, He's Not Going to Do Xmas Again, Is He?
  • 44: The Death of My Mother, Serita R. Ellison
  • 45: Enormous Dumb
  • 46: Revealed at Last! What Killed the Dinosaurs! And You Don't Look So Terrific Yourself
• Appendix A: Comic of the Absurd
• Appendix B: Dogging It in the Great American Heartland
• Appendix C: Darkness Falls in the City of the Angels
• Appendix D: Lenny Bruce is Dead
• Appendix E: Did Your Mother Throw Yours Out?
• Appendix F: The Song the Sixties Sang
• Appendix G: The Dingbat Appendix
• Index (by Gil Lamont)

(Many chapters are preceded by "Interim Memos" of introduction or explanation)

Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Volume One

• Quicktime
• The End of the Time of Leinard
• Rat Hater
• If This Be Utopia ...
• On the Slab
• Knox
• Turnpike
• S.R.O.
• Enter the Fanatic, Stage Center
• Pride in the Profession
• The Rough Boys
• Cold Friend
• Catman
• How's the Night Life on Cissalda?
• Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral
• Pulling Hard Time
• Anywhere But Here, With Anybody But You
• Chatting With Annubis
• The Museum on Cyclops Avenue

Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Volume Two

• The Silver Corridor
• Opposites Attract
• Djinn, No Chaster
• One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty
• Goodbye to All That
• The Voice in the Garden
• The Discarded
• Gnomebody
• Moonlighting
• Eyes of Dust (fragment)
• Rock God
• Are You Listening?
• The Lingering Scent of Woodsmoke
• The Man on the Juice Wagon

Harlan Ellison's Watching

• Preface to the 2007 Edition (by Leonard Maltin) (2008 edition only)
• Foreword (by George Kirgo)
• Introduction: Crying "Water!" in a Crowded Theater
• Darkness in Magic Caverns: a nostalgic appreciation of moviegoing
• Cinema [1965-68}:
  • The Train
  • Von Ryan's Express
  • Masquerade
  • Mickey One
  • The War Lord
  • The Battle of the Bulge
  • Juliet of the Spirits
  • You're a Big Boy Now!
  • Beau Geste
  • Up the Down Staircase
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • Les Carabiniers
• Divers Publications
  • Hard Contract
  • Harlan Ellison's Handy Guide to 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Joe
  • Silent Running
• Harlan Ellison: Screening Room [1973]:
  • 1st Installment
  • 2nd Installment: A Sort of Interview with Peter Boyle
  • 3rd Installment
  • 4th Installment
• Harlan Ellison's Watching [First Series, 1977-78]
  • 1st Installment
  • 2nd Installment: Luke Skywalker is a Nerd and Darth Vader Sucks Runny Eggs
  • Star Trek -- The Motionless Picture
• Harlan Ellison's Watching [Second Series, 1984- ]
  • Installment 1: In Which We Begin Our Journey
  • Installment 2: In Which Sublime And Ridiculous Pass Like Ships In The Night
  • Installment 3: In Which We Scuffle Through The Embers
  • Installment 4: In Which We Discover Why The Children Don't Look Like Their Parents
  • Installment 5: In Which The Left Hand Giveth Praise And The Right Hand Sprayeth For Worms Of Evil
  • Installment 6: In Which We Learn What Is Worse Than Finding A Worm Of Evil In The Apple
  • Installment 7: In Which an Attempt Is Made To Have One's Cake And Eat It, Too
  • Installment 8: In Which Some Shrift Is Given Shortly, Some Longly, And The Critic's Laundry Is Reluctantly Aired
  • Installment 9: In Which The Fortunate Reader Gets To Peek Inside The Fabled Black Tower
  • Installment 10: In Which The Fabled Black Tower Meets Dune With As Much Affection As Godzilla Met Ghidrah
  • Installment 11: In Which Nothing Terribly Profound Occurs
  • Installment 12: In Which Several Things Are Held Up To The Light ... Not A Brain In Sight
  • Installment 13: In Which Numerous Ends (Loose) Are Tied Up, Some In The Configuration Of A Noose (Hangman's)
  • Installment 14: In Which We Sail To The Edge Of The World And Confront The Abyss, Having Run Out Of Steam
  • Installment 14 1/2: In Which The Unheard-of Is Heard, Kind Of
  • Installment 15: In Which A Gourmet Feast Is Prepared Of Words A Mere Two Months Old
  • Installment 16: In Which A Forest Is Analyzed Without Recourse To Any Description Of A Tree
  • Installment 17: In Which We Unflinchingly Look a Gift Horse In The Choppers
  • Installment 18: In Which Youth Goeth Before A Fall
  • Installment 19: In Which We Long For The Stillness Of The Lake, The Smooth Swell Of The Lea
  • Installment 20: In Which Manifestations Of Arrested Adolescence Are Shown To Be Symptoms Of A Noncommunicable Dopiness, Thank Goodness
  • Installment 21: In Which You And A Large Group Of Total Strangers Are Flipped The Finger By The Mad Masters Of Anthropomorphism
  • Installment 22: In Which the Land Echoes To The Sound Of An Ox Of A Different Color Being Gored
  • Installment 23: In Which Premonitions Of The Future Lie In Wait To Swallow Shadows Of The Past
  • Installment 24: In Which Flora and Fauna Come To A Last Minute Rescue, Thereby Preventing The Forlorn From Handing It All Over To The Cockroaches
  • Installment 25: In Which The Specter At The Banquet Takes A Healthy Swig From The Flagon With The Dragon, Or Maybe The Chalice From The Palace
  • Installment 26: In Which A Good Time Was Had By All And An Irrelevant Name-Dropping Of Fritz Leiber Occurs For No Better Reason Than To Remind Him How Much We Love And Admire Him
  • Installment 27: In Which The Fur Is Picked Clean Of Nits, Gnats, Nuts, Naggers And Nuhdzes
  • Installment 28: In Which, With Wiles And Winces, We Waft Words Warranting, To Wit, Wonderful Wit
  • Installment 29: In Which Li'l White Lies Are Revealed To Be At Least Tattletale Gray
  • Installment 30 1/2: In Which 3 Cinematic Variations On "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs" Are Presented
  • Installment 30: In Which The Li'l White Lies Thesis (Part Two) Takes Us By The Snout and Drags Us Unwillingly Toward A Door We Fear To Open
  • Installment 31: In Which The Li'l White Lies Thesis (Part Three) Approaches A Nascent State, Approaches The Dreadful Door, And En Route Questions Meat Idolatry
  • Installment 32: In Which the Switch Is Thrown
  • Installment 33: In Which The Canine of Vacuity Is Wagged by The Far More Interesting Tale Of O'Bannon
  • Installment 34: In Which We Praise Those Whose Pants're On Fire, Noses Long As A Telephone Wire
• Appendix A: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Has Science Fiction Theme
• Appendix B: Nightmare At The Daisy
• Index

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

• Echoes of Screams (1983 edition only)
• 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

The Illustrated Harlan Ellison

• Deeper Than the Darkness (Illustrated by Wayne McLoughlin)
• Croatoan (Illustrated by Thomas Sutton, Alfredo Alcala and Stephen Oliff) (trade edition only)
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (Illustrated by Steranko, production by Ken Bruzenak, 3-D separation production by Neal Adams and Alex Jay)
• The Discarded (Illustrated by Thomas Sutton)
• An Ellison Tapestry (Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon) (trade edition only)
• Shattered Like a Glass Goblin (Illustrated by William Stout) (trade edition only)
• Riding the Dark Train Out (Illustrated by Ralph Reese) (trade edition only)
• I'm Looking for Kadak (Illustrated by Overton Loyd)

I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay

• Foreword: Harlan Ellison's I, Robot (by Isaac Asimov)
• Introduction: Me 'n' Isaac at the Movies -- A Brief Memoir of Citizen Calvin
• 317 scenes
• Chronology

Jacques Futrelle's "The Thinking Machine"

• Enter: "The Thinking Machine"
• My First Experience with the Great Logician
• Introduction (by Harlan Ellison)
• The Thinking Machine's First Problem: Dressing Room "A"
• The Problem of Cell 13
• The Phantom Motor
• The Mystery of the Grip of Death
• The Problem of the Hidden Million
• The Ralston Bank Burglary
• The Problem of the Auto Cab
• The Silver Box
• The Jackdaw Girl
• The Brown Coat
• The Problem of the Stolen Rubens
• The Fatal Cipher
• The Superfluous Finger
• The Motor Boat
• The Problem of the Broken Bracelet
• The Problem of the Cross Mark
• The Roswell Tiara
• The Problem of the Red Rose
• The Man Who Was Lost
• A Piece of String
• The Problem of the Deserted House

Jokes Without Punchlines

• Introduction
• The Cheese Stands Alone
• How to Make Life Interesting
• Sensible City

The Light at the End of the Universe

• About the Cover Artist
• Nice Guys Finish Somewhere in the Middle: An Introduction by Harlan Ellison
• The Dance of the Changer and the Three
• The Winds at Starmount
• Ozymandias
• Rejoice, Rejoice, We Have No Choice
• Hop-Friend
• Touchstone
• Brown Robert
• Changing of the Gods
• Stanley Toothbrush
• The Colors of Fear
• Sleeping Beauty
• In His Image
• The Old Man of the Mountains
• The Robots Are Here
• They Live on Levels

(Each story is preceded by an introduction by the author.)

Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled

• Preface: Motherhood, Apple Pie and the American Way
• New Introduction: Having an Affair With a Troll (1976 edition)
• Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes (1968 edition)
• The Night of Delicate Terrors (1968 edition)
• What I Did on My Vacation This Summer, By Little Bobby Hirschhorn, Age 27
• Neither Your Jenny Nor Mine
• Final Shtick (1968 edition)
• O Ye of Little Faith (1968 edition)
• Blind Bird, Blind Bird, Go Away From Me!
• Riding the Dark Train Out
• Valerie (1976 edition)
• Delusion for a Dragon Slayer (1968 edition)
• Daniel White for the Greater Good
• Lonelyache (1968 edition)
• The Universe of Robert Blake
• Mona at Her Windows
• When I Was a Hired Gun (1976 edition)
• G. B. K. -- A Many-Flavored Bird
• The Face of Helene Bournouw (1968 edition)
• The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie
• Ernest and the Machine God (1968 edition)
• Battle Without Banners
• Punky & the Yale Men
• A Path Through the Darkness
• A Prayer for No One's Enemy
• All the Sounds of Fear (1968 edition)
• I Curse the Lesson and Bless the Knowledge (1976 edition)

Medea: Harlan's World

• Introduction: Cosmic Hod-Carriers
• Part I: The Specs
  • Introduction
  • Basic Concepts: Astrophysics, Geology (by Hal Clement)
  • Geology, Meteorology, Oceanography, Geography, Nomenclature, Biology (by Poul Anderson)
  • Biology, Ecology, Xenology (by Larry Niven)
  • Xenology, Sociology, Politics, Theology, Mathematics (by Frederik Pohl)
• Part II: The Concept Seminar (Participants Thomas M. Disch, Frank Herbert, Robert Silverberg, Theodore Sturgeon)
• Part III: The Extrapolations, the Questions (Contributed by the Audience of the Concept Seminar)
• Part IV: Second Thoughts (by project participants)
• Part V: The Stories
  • Farside Station (by Jack Williamson)
  • Flare Time (by Larry Niven)
  • With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole
  • Swanilda's Song (by Frederik Pohl)
  • Seasoning (by Hal Clement)
  • Concepts (by Thomas M. Disch)
  • Songs of a Sentient Flute (by Frank Herbert)
  • Hunter's Moon (by Poul Anderson)
  • The Promise (by Kate Wilhelm)
  • Why Dolphins Don't Bite (by Theodore Sturgeon)
  • Waiting for the Earthquake (by Robert Silverberg)

Mefisto in Onyx

• Introduction: Frank Miller
• no chapter headings

Memos from Purgatory

• New Introduction: Memo '75 (1975 edition)
• Memo '69 (1969 and 1975 editions)
• A Message from the Sponsor
• Prologue
• Book One: The Gang (nine chapters)
• Transition
• Book Two: The Tombs (seven chapters)
• Conclusion

Mind Fields: 33 Stories Inspired by the Art of Jacek Yerka

• The Creation of Water
• Twilight in the Cupboard
• Amok Harvest
• Theory of Tension
• Back to Nature
• Internal Inspection
• Metropolis II
• In the Oligocenskie Gardens
• Europe
• Fever
• Attack at Dawn
• Susan
• Between Heaven and Hell
• Shed of Rebellion
• To Each His Own
• Eruption
• The Inquisition
• Beneath the Dunes
• The Silence
• Darkness Falls on the River
• Paradise
• Express Delivery
• The Agitators
• Truancy at the Pond
• Ammonite
• Base
• Foraging in the Field
• Traffic Prohibited
• Afternoon with the Bros. Grimm
• The Cosmic Barnyard
• Under the Landscape
• Ellison Wonderland
• Please Don't Slam the Door
• Author's Notes

Night and the Enemy

• Foreword (untitled)
• Run for the Stars
• Life Hutch
• The Untouchable Adolescents
• Trojan Hearse
• Sleeping Dogs
• Afterword (untitled)
• The Few, The Proud (limited edition only)
• Whispers From the Telling Box
• War Artist (by Ken Steacy, limited edition only)

Nightshade and Damnations: The Finest Stories of Gerald Kersh

• Introduction: Kersh, the Demon Prince (by Harlan Ellison)
• The Queen of Pig Island
• Frozen Beauty