The Essential Ellison (A 35-Year Retrospective)

1 • Introduction: Sublime Rebel, by Terry Dowling I BEGINNINGS 11 • The Sword of Parmagon 17 • The Gloconda 23 • The Wilder One 25 • The Saga of Machine Gun Joe 27 • Glowworm 41 • Life Hutch 53 • S.R.O. II WORLDS OF TERROR 67 • Lonelyache 83 • Punky & the Yale Men 107 • A Prayer for No One's Enemy III WORLDS OF LOVE 129 • In Lonely Lands 135 • The Time of the Eye 143 • Grail IV THAT NEW OLD-TIME RELIGION 167 • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream 181 • Corpse 189 • The Whimper of Whipped Dogs V A STAB OF MERRIMENT 209 • The Voice in the Garden 211 • Erotophobia 217 • Mom 229 • Ecowareness 231 • The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists 235 • Dept. of "What Was the Question?" Dept. 237 • Dept. of "Trivial Pursuit" Dept. VI TROUBLE WITH WOMEN 245 • The Very Last Day of a Good Woman 253 • Valerie: A True Memoir 267 • The Other Eye of Polyphemus 275 • All the Birds Come Home to Roost VII TO THE MATTRESSES WITH MEAN DEMONS 293 • The Tombs: An Excerpt from Memos from Purgatory 333 • "Our Little Miss" 341 • A Love Song to Jerry Falwell 347 • Telltale Tics and Tremors 357 • True Love: Groping for the Holy Grail 377 • Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W VIII ROCOCO TECHNOLOGY 413 • The Sky Is Burning 421 • The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World 439 • Along the Scenic Route 449 • The Song the Zombie Sang, by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg 461 • Knox IX HEART'S BLOOD 481 • From Alabamy, with Hate 493 • My Father 499 • My Mother 517 • Gopher in the Gilly 523 • Strange Wine X NIGHTS & DAYS IN GOOD OLD HOLLYWEIRD 537 • The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie 607 • Flintlock: An Unproduced Teleplay 687 • The Man on the Mushroom 691 • Somehow, I Don't Think We're in Kansas, Toto 707 • Face-Down in Gloria Swanson's Swimming Pool XI PETARDS & HANGINGS 715 • Soldier 735 • The Night of Delicate Terrors 743 • Shattered Like a Glass Goblin 751 • At the Mouse Circus XII SHADOWS FROM THE PAST 763 • Free With This Box! 771 • Final Shtick 781 • One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty 795 • Jeffty Is Five XIII CONTRACTS ON THE SOUL 817 • Daniel White for the Greater Good 827 • Neither Your Jenny nor Mine 861 • Alive and Well and on a Friendless Voyage XIV THE CLASSICS 877 • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman 887 • Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes 905 • A Boy and His Dog 939 • The Deathbird XV DARK LIBERATION 971 • The Thick Red Moment 989 • The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge 1003 • Driving in the Spikes 1015 • Afterword, by Harlan Ellison