Harlan Ellison Books In Order
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Web of the City | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man with 9 Lives | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Touch of Infinity | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spider Kiss | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doomsman | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Phoenix Without Ashes | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Boy and His Dog | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Region Between | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Deathbird | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jeffty Is Five | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All the Lies That Are My Life | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Paladin of the Lost Hour (in Twilight Zone Magazine) | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Soft Monkey | (1987) | |
The Function of Dream Sleep | (1988) | |
The Function of Dream Sleep (in Asimov's) | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chatting with Anubis | (1995) | |
From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother | (2003) | |
Run for the Stars | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Harlan Ellison's Movie | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Li'l Harlan and His Sidekick Carl the Comet in Danger Land | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Deadly Streets | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Getting in the Wind | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sex Gang | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Children of the Streets / The Juvies | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gentleman Junkie | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ellison Wonderland | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Paingod and Other Delusions | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From the Land of Fear | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Over the Edge | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Time of the Eye | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alone Against Tomorrow | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All the Sounds of Fear | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Approaching Oblivion | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
No Doors, No Windows | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deathbird Stories | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Illustrated Harlan Ellison | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Strange Wine | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shatterday | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stalking the Nightmare | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Essential Ellison | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mefisto in Onyx | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night and the Enemy | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Angry Candy | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Footsteps | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Harlan Ellison Hornbook | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spider Kiss / Stalking the Nightmare | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Slippage | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Troublemakers | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dreams with Sharp Teeth | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Phantom Chronicles, Volume 2 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pulling a Train | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rough Beasts | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Top of the Volcano | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Can & Can'tankerous | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ephemeral Ellison | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ellison Treatment | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dimensions of Harlan Ellison | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Plays
The City on the Edge of Forever | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
None of the Above | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Thinking Machine | (1905) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Memos From Purgatory | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Glass Teat | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Other Glass Teat | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An Edge in My Voice | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Harlan Ellison's Watching | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Harlan 101 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Working Without a Net | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Brain Movies Books
Brain Movies, Volume 1 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brain Movies, Volume 2 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brain Movies, Volume 3 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brain Movies, Volume 4 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brain Movies, Volume 5 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brain Movies, Volume 6 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brain Movies, Volume 7 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brain Movies, Volume 8 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Dream Corridor Books
Dream Corridor Special | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dream Corridor Quarterly | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dream Corridor 1 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dream Corridor 2 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Star Trek Fotonovel Books
The City on the Edge of Forever | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Trouble with Tribbles | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All Our Yesterdays | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Taste of Armageddon | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Metamorphosis | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Galileo 7 | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Piece of the Action | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Day of the Dove | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Amok Time | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Trek: The Motion Picture | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Anthology Books
Best New Horror | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 2 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 3 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giant Book of Best New Horror | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 4 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 5 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 6 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 16 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 17 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 18 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Best New Horror | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 19 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 20 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 21 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 22 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 23 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 24 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 25 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #26 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 27 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 28 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 29 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Best New Horror, Volume One | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best of Best New Horror Volume 2 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #30 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #31 | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Andromeda Books
Andromeda 1 | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Andromeda: An Original SF Anthology | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Andromeda 2 | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Andromeda 3 | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Diogenes Club Books
Shadows Over Innsmouth | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 5 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cthulhu 2000 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 2 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark of the Night | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
White of the Moon | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where The Bodies Are Buried | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Infinity Plus One | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Embrace the Mutation | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 16 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Adventure | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man from the Diogenes Club | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: 19th Annual Collection | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 18 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Chills | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Infinity Plus | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fair Folk | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 19 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mysteries of the Diogenes Club | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of the Mummy | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Dark Destiny Books
Dark Destiny III | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Destiny II: Proprietors of Fate | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Destiny | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chronological Order of Dark Destiny Books
Dark Destiny | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Destiny II: Proprietors of Fate | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Destiny III | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Oz-Story Magazine Books
Oz-Story 1 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Oz-Story 2 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Oz-Story 3 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Oz-Story 4 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Oz-Story 5 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Oz-Story 6 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Hard Case Crime Books
Shooting Star/Spiderweb | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shooting Star / Spiderweb | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mercenaries | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two for the Money | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly Beloved | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gun Work | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Catch and Release | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury Books
Publication Order of Hot Blood Books
Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horror | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hottest Blood | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly After Dark | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seeds of Fear | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fear the Fever | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kiss and Kill | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crimes of Passion | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hot Blood X | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fatal Attractions | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Strange Bedfellows | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Passions | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stranger by Night | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of Dark Terrors Books
Dark Terrors | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 2 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 3 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 4 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 5 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 6 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Darker Terrors 7 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Mammoth Book of... Books
The Mammoth Book of Terror | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Vampires | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Zombies | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men / The Mammoth Book of Werewolves | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Dracula | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction, Volume I | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of New Terror | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Monsters | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombie Apocalypse! | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombie Apocalypse! Fightback | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Books presents Messing With Your Head | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Books Presents The Unexpected | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Books presents That Haunted Feeling | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unexpected Encounters | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Books presents A Ghostly Gathering | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Clutch of Zombies | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lethal Legends | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Books presents Demonic Dreams | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Books presents Monsters in Our Midst | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Books presents More Than Human | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombie Apocalypse! End Game | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Partners in Wonder | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Again, Dangerous Visions | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 20th Series | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Again, Dangerous Visions 2 | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Six Science Fiction Plays | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Andromeda 1 | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Study War No More | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chrysalis 1 | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 13 | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The First Omni Book of Science Fiction | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Medea | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fourth Omni Book of Science Fiction | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1985 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twilight Zone Magazine, December 1985 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 12 | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Void | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1988 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1989 | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Borderlands 1 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1990 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Horror Hall of Fame | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 1991 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dante's Disciples | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Destiny II: Proprietors of Fate | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ultimate Undead | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1994 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cthulhu 2000 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Outer Limits, Volume One | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hollywood Fantasies: Ten Surreal Visions of Tinsel Town | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Shadow of the Gargoyle | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 2001 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Century of Great Suspense Stories | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nebula Awards 41 (2007) | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Chills | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Son of Retro Pulp Tales | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crucified Dreams | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Season of Wonder | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fear the Abyss | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silent Night, Deadly Night | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood Is Not Enough | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Harlan Ellison was a prolific American writer of speculative fiction, science fiction, mystery, thriller, fantasy, and horror novels. He was known for his influential work and his combative, outspoken personality. Harlan was particularly famous for his successful collaborations with authors like Richard Corben, John M Ford, Diane Duane, Edward Bryant, Jack Dann, Jack Haldermann II, Alan Dean Foster, Richard Roberts, Keri Knutson, Bernard Schaffer, Miles Cressman, etc. The published works of author Harlan include over 1,700 short stories, comic book scripts, essays, novellas, teleplays, screenplays, and a wide variety of criticism work that covered literature, print media, film, and television. Some of the best-known works of Harlan include a Star Trek episode called The City on Edge of Forever, A Boy & his Dog cycle, and several widely popular short stories.
Harlan has also been the anthologist and editor for Dangerous Visions and its sequel called Again, Dangerous Visions, which were released in 1967 and 1972 respectively. The list of awards won by him includes some of the prestigious awards such as Nebula, Edgar, and Hugo. He won each of them multiple times. Author Harlan was born on May 27, 1934, in Cleveland, Ohio as Harlan Jay Ellison. He belonged to a Jewish family and had an elder sister named Beverly. The two were not on talking terms since the death of their mother in 1976. When Harlan was younger, his family had relocated to Painesville, Ohio, but came back to Cleveland in 1949 when his father died. Harlan had run away from his home multiple times. He had also taken up odd jobs during his teenage years, including working as a fisherman near the Galveston coast at the age of 18.
The other jobs that he was involved in at that time include being a crop picker, hired gun, truck driver, cook, lithographer, floorwalker, cab driver, book salesman, door-to-door salesman, etc. His first published writing was a fan letter that he wrote to the Real Fact Comics in 1947. Harlan studied at Ohio State University between 1951 and 1953 before he was expelled on the grounds of indiscipline and bad behavior. Harlan had hit a professor for denigrating his ability to write and was subsequently expelled. Over the course of the next twenty years, Harlan sent a copy of each short story he published to the professor to prove to him that he had good writing skills. In 1949, he wrote a couple of serialized stories and published them in the Cleveland News. In the early 1950s, Harlan sold a story to the EC Comics. He had become an active member of the science fiction fandom at this time. Harlan used to publish his own fanzines based on the science fiction genre.
In 1955, he relocated to New York City to pursue a career in the field of writing science fiction. Within a period of just 2 years after his relocation, Harlan published over a hundred articles short stories. Between 1957 and 1959, Harlan served in the United States Army. In 1958, he published his first full-length book called Web of the City while he was still serving in the army. A major part of the story was written when Harlan was undergoing training in Georgia. After he left the army, Harlan moved to Chicago and joined the Rogue as an editor. His relocation to California in 1962 opened the doors for writing screenplays for Hollywood films. Harlan started selling his scripts to noteworthy directors of that time. He even co-wrote the screenplay of the 1966 movie called The Oscar. His scripts were also sold to TV shows, including The Flying Nun, The Outer Limits, Loretta Young Show, Route 66, Star Trek, Cimarron Strip, Burke’s Law, etc. Throughout the course of his writing career, Harlan used many pen names. Some of the prominent ones among them include Cordwainer Bird, Sley Harson, Paul Merchant, Jay Charby, Pat Roeder, Ellis Hart, Harlan Ellis, John Magnus, Ivar Jorgenson, Jay Solo, Derry Tiger, etc.
Harlan had married for a total of five times and each of his relationships did not last for more than a few years. His last wife was Susan Toth, whom he married in 1986. They remained together until Harlan’s death in 2018. Harlan died on June 28, 2018, at his Los Angeles home due to complications arising out of a stroke that he had suffered in 2014. He was suffering from speech & cognition impairment and paralysis and was undergoing physical therapy several times a week. Harlan’s excellent writing skills and his mind-blowing works have kept him alive in the hearts of his fans and will remain so for many more years to come.
A popular book written by author Harlan Ellison is entitled ‘Web of the City’. It was originally titled Rumble and was published in 1958 by Pyramid Books. This novel follows the story of a teenage boy named Rusty Santoro, who becomes a member of a street gang of Cougars in Brooklyn, New York. Harlan has set the story in the 1950s. In researching this novel, Harlan actually spent some time in one of the street gangs of Brooklyn. He has given an account of his experience in staying in the Barons in his 1961 book called Memos from Purgatory. Rusty Santoro’s story begins by depicting that he is faced with the dilemma of choosing between the obligations of his street gang and the meager prospects of his neighborhood. As the story moves ahead, Rusty Santoro is seen struggling with the idea of leaving his gang life and his neighborhood behind. Harlan has mentioned various aspects of street gang life in this novel, including murders, street fights, and various other aspects.
Another exciting book penned by Harlan is called ‘Spider Kiss’. It was released in 1961 by Gold Medal Books. This book is based on the life of a humble and shy country boy called Luther Sellers. He finds that he possesses a mesmerizing stage presence and a magnificent voice. Luther gets the stage name as Stag Preston and goes on to become a big rockabilly star. He is helped by a helpful manager, who is patterned after the manager of Elvis Presley, Tom Parker. As time passes, Luther Sellers’ success goes into his mind. In trying to live up to his name and fame, Luther plays gimmick to keep his followers interested, but despises them secretly. Later, Luther gets entangled in a controversy and could not help but see his downfall before his eyes.
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