The Deadly Streets
1958 short story collection by Harlan Ellison
First US edition | |
Author | Harlan Ellison |
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Language | English |
Genre | short stories |
Publisher | Ace Books |
Publication date | 1983 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | 192 |
The Deadly Streets is a collection of short stories published by author Harlan Ellison in 1958.
The stories explore the violent themes Ellison experienced as part of the street gang The Barons when he was researching Web of the City.
Contents
The table of contents for Ace's 1983 edition are as follows:
- New Introduction(1983): Avoiding Dark Places
- Introduction to First Edition(1958): Some Sketches of the Damned
- Rat Hater
- "I'll Bet You a Death"
- We Take Care of Our Dead
- The Man With the Golden Tongue
- Johnny Slice's Stoolie
- Joy Ride
- Buy Me That Blade
- The Hippie-Slayer
- Kid Killer
- With a Knife in Her Hand
- Sob Story (written with Henry Slesar)
- Look Me in the Eye, Boy!
- The Dead Shot
- Ship-Shape Pay-Off (written with Robert Silverberg)
- Made in Heaven
- Students of the Assassin
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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