Strange Wine
Short story collection
Strange Wine is a 1978 short story collection by American writer Harlan Ellison.
Contents
The book contains the following stories (as well as Ellison's own introduction for each tale):
- "Introduction: Revealed at Last! What Killed the Dinosaurs! And You Don't Look So Terrific Yourself"
- "Croatoan"
- "Working With the Little People"
- "Killing Bernstein"
- "Mom"
- "In Fear of K"
- "Hitler Painted Roses"
- "The Wine Has Been Left Open Too Long and the Memory Has Gone Flat"
- "From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet"
- "Lonely Women are the Vessels of Time"
- "Emissary from Hamelin"
- "The New York Review of Bird"
- "Seeing"
- "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
- "Strange Wine"
- "The Diagnosis of Dr. D'arqueAngel"
Reception
Ellison wrote "Strange Wine" while sitting in the window of Westwood-area science fiction bookstore, A Change of Hobbit.
Stephen King considered this one of the best horror fiction books published between 1950 and 1980 in his 1981 non-fiction book about the horror genre, Danse Macabre, specifically reviewing the stories "Croatoan", "Hitler Painted Roses", "Lonely Women are the Vessels of Time", "Emissary from Hamelin" and "From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet".
External links
- http://www.islets.net/collections/strangewine.html
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Harlan Ellison
- Bibliography
- Web of the City
- Spider Kiss
- A Boy and His Dog
- Mefisto in Onyx
collections
- The Deadly Streets
- Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation
- Ellison Wonderland
- Paingod and Other Delusions
- Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled
- The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
- Alone Against Tomorrow
- Approaching Oblivion
- Deathbird Stories
- No Doors, No Windows
- Strange Wine
- Shatterday
- Stalking the Nightmare
- Angry Candy
- Slippage
- Can & Can'tankerous
- ”Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans”
- “The Beast that Shouted Love at The Heart of the World”
- “Croatoan”
- “The Deathbird”
- “The Discarded”
- “The Dragon on the Bookshelf”
- “From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet”
- “The Function of Dream Sleep”
- “How Interesting: A Tiny Man”
- “How's the Night Life on Cissalda?”
- “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”
- “Jeffty Is Five”
- “Paladin of the Lost Hour”
- “The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World”
- “"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman”
- “Soldier from Tomorrow”
- “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs”
- Phoenix Without Ashes
- Mind Fields
- "Soldier"
- "Demon with a Glass Hand"
- "The City on the Edge of Forever"
- "Paladin of the Lost Hour"
- "Gramma"
- "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich"
- "A View from the Gallery"
- "Objects in Motion"
- Babylon 5
- The Gathering
- In the Beginning
- Thirdspace
- The River of Souls
- A Call to Arms
- I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
- "The Human Operators"
- "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty"
- "Shatterday"
- A Boy and His Dog (1975 film)
- "Djinn, No Chaser"
- Dangerous Visions
- Again, Dangerous Visions
- Medea: Harlan's World