The Essential Ellison · A 50 Year Retrospective by Ellison, Harlan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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THE ESSENTIAL ELLISON Prolegemenon: MILLENIAL MUSING ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction: Sublime Rebel by Terry Dowling Lagniappe by Terry Dowling I BEGINNINGS

The Sword Of Parmagon (Drawings by Harlan Ellison, Age 15) The Gloconda (Drawings by Harlan Ellison, Age 15) The Wilder One The Saga Of Machine Gun Joe Introduction To Glowworm Glowworm Life Hutch S.R.O.

II WORLDS OF TERROR

Lonelyache Punky And The Yale Men A Prayer For No One’s Enemy Pulling Hard Time

III WORLDS OF LOVE

In Lonely Lands The Time of the Eye Grail

IV THAT NEW OLD-TIME RELIGION

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Corpse The Whimper of Whipped Dogs

V A STAB OF MERRIMENT

The Voice In The Garden Erotophobia Mom A MINI-GLOSSARY OF YIDDISH WORDS USED IN “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

VI 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

VII TO THE MATTRESSES WITH MEAN DEMONS

The Tombs: An Excerpt from MEMOS FROM PURGATORY “Our Little Miss” A Love Song To 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

VIII 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

IX HEART’S BLOOD

From Alabamy, With Hate Another Memo from Purgatory My Father My Mother Tired Old Man (An Hommage to Cornell Woolrich) Gopher In The Gilly A reminiscence of the carnival Strange Wine

X 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

XI PETARDS & HANGINGS

Soldier The Night Of Delicate Terrors Shattered Like a Glass Goblin At the Mouse Circus

XII SHADOWS FROM THE PAST

Free With This Box! Final Shtick One Life, Furnished In Early Poverty Jeffty is Five

XII CONTRACTS ON THE SOUL

Daniel White For The Greater Good Neither Your Jenny Nor Mine Alive and Well and on a Friendless Voyage

XIV THE CLASSICS

“Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes A Boy And His Dog The Deathbird Paladin of the Lost Hour Soft Monkey Mefisto In Onyx

XV PROCESS

Where I Shall Dwell in The Next World The Museum on Cyclops Avenue Objects Of Desire In The Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear Man On Spikes Introduction To “Tired Old Man” The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore

XVI DARK LIBERATION

The Thick Red Moment The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge Driving In The Spikes An Edge in My Voice, Installment 55 The Streets, Installment 1 Xenogenesis

Afterword by Harlan Ellison ABOUT THE EDITORS