Harlan Ellison bibliography


This is a list of works by Harlan Ellison. It includes his literary output, screenplays and teleplays, voiceover work, and other fields of endeavor.

Novels and novellas

Web of the City The Man with Nine Lives Spider Kiss Doomsman A Boy and His Dog The Starlost #1: Phoenix Without Ashes All the Lies That Are My Life Run for the Stars Mefisto in Onyx
  • ''Blood's a Rover''

Short story collections

The Deadly Streets Sex Gang A Touch of Infinity Children of the Streets Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation Ellison Wonderland Ellison calls his home in Sherman Oaks, California "Ellison Wonderland."Paingod and Other Delusions I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream From the Land of Fear Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World Over the Edge Partners in Wonder Approaching Oblivion Deathbird Stories No Doors, No Windows Strange Wine Shatterday Stalking the Nightmare Angry Candy Mind Fields Slippage Troublemakers Pulling a Train Rough Beasts Getting in the Wind Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison 8 in 80 Can & Can'tankerous
  • ''Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits''

Retrospectives and omnibus collections

Alone Against Tomorrow: a 10-Year Survey and The Time of the Eye )The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison and "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" )The Essential Ellison: a 35-Year Retrospective Dreams With Sharp Teeth, Deathbird Stories and Shatterday )Edgeworks. 1 and "An Edge in My Voice" )Edgeworks. 2 and "Stalking the Nightmare" )Edgeworks. 3 and "Harlan Ellison's Movie" )Edgeworks. 4 and The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World )The Essential Ellison: a 50-Year Retrospective Revised & Expanded The Glass Teat Omnibus: The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat The Top of the Volcano: The Award-winning Stories of Harlan Ellison Fingerprints On the Sky: The Authorized Harlan Ellison Bibliography, The Illustrated Reader's Guide edited by Tim Richmond Subterranean Press

Note

The White Wolf Edgeworks Series was originally scheduled to consist of 31 titles reprinted over the course of 20 omnibus volumes. Although an ISBN was created for Edgeworks. 5, which was to contain both Glass Teat books, this title never appeared. The series is notorious for its numerous typographical errors.

Nonfiction

Memos from Purgatory The Glass Teat The Other Glass Teat The Book of Ellison Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed An Edge in My Voice Harlan Ellison's Watching The Harlan Ellison Hornbook
  • ''Harlan Ellison's Endlessly Watching''

Editorials

  • "Star Trek"
  • "The End of Horror"

Published/produced screenplays and teleplays

The Oscar, with Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse, from the novel by Richard Sale.Phoenix Without Ashes, published in Faster Than Light, alongside original stories by George R.R. Martin and Ben Bova, and reprints by Isaac Asimov.I, Robot, The City on the Edge of Forever, Harlan Ellison's Movie, Flintlock, The Whimper of Whipped Dogs, The Whimper of Whipped Dogs Soldier, produced for [The The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|The Outer Limits] in 1964; published alongside the short story on which it was based in his 1967 collection From the Land of Fear.Crazy as a Soup Sandwich, produced for The Twilight Zone in 1989; published in his 1997 collection Slippage.Nackles, written for The Twilight Zone, an adaptation of a Donald E. Westlake story written, but never produced, in 1985, published in The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1986 and in a limited edition of Slippage which was published Mark Ziesing in 1997.Memo from Purgatory, produced for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in 1964, Soldier, produced for The Outer Limits in 1964, Demon With a Glass Hand, produced for The Outer Limits in 1964, Paladin of the Lost Hour, produced for The Twilight Zone in 1985, Crazy as a Soup Sandwich produced for The Twilight Zone in 1989, and The Face of Helene Bournouw, produced for The Hunger in 1998, were all published in Brain Movies: The Original Teleplays of Harlan Ellison, Volume One, published by Edgeworks Abbey/Publishing 180 in 2011.Killing Bernstein, written, but unproduced, for Darkroom, 1982, Deeper Than the Darkness, retitled "A Knife in the Darkness", produced for Cimarron Strip in 1968, Mealtime, retitled "The Price of Doom", produced for Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea in 1964, The Sort of Do-It-Yourself Dreadful Affair, produced for The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in 1966, The Pieces of Fate Affair, produced for The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in 1967, and Phoenix Without Ashes, the pilot for The Starlost that was rewritten and retitled as "Voyage of Discovery", produced in 1973, are all collected in Brain Movies: The Original Teleplays of Harlan Ellison, Volume Two, published by Edgeworks Abbey/Publishing 180 in 2011.None of the Above, an adaptation of the Norman Spinrad novel Bug Jack Barron, written for director Costa-Gavras in the early 1980s, published by Edgeworks Abbey in November 2012.Cutter's World, an original, two-hour 1987 pilot teleplay for a western-tinged science fiction series for CBS, that was to have been directed by Roger Corman, Who Killed Alex Debbs?, a script that was produced for the hit 1960s show, Burke's Law, the initial outline for Demon with a Glass Hand, and The Ship That Kills, an unproduced story outline for a 1974–1975 Depression-era series called The Manhunter, starring Ken Howard, are collected in Brain Movies Vol. 3, published by Edgeworks Abbey and available from HarlanEllisonBooks.com.Brillo, an unproduced, two-hour teleplay pilot, written in collaboration with Ben Bova, for ABC, Who Killed Purity Mather?, written and produced for Burke's Law, and Jeffrey's Being Quiet, written for Sixth Sense, are collected in Brain Movies Vol. 4, published by Edgeworks Abbey and available from HarlanEllisonBooks.com.The Dark Forces, an unproduced pilot, written for NBC, Who Killed Andy Zygmunt?, written and produced for Burke's Law, Where Do the Elephants Go to Die?, written and produced for Ripcord, an unproduced teleplay for The Rat Patrol as well as outlines for Batman and Logan's Run are collected in Brain Movies Vol. 5, published by Edgeworks Abbey and available from HarlanEllisonBooks.com.Brain Movies: The Original Teleplays of Harlan Ellison, Volume One Brain Movies: The Original Teleplays of Harlan Ellison, Volume Two Brain Movies: The Original Teleplays of Harlan Ellison, Volume Three Brain Movies: The Original Teleplays of Harlan Ellison, Volume Four Brain Movies: The Original Teleplays of Harlan Ellison, Volume Five
See also The Starlost #1: Phoenix without Ashes, the novelization by Edward Bryant of the teleplay for the pilot episode of The Starlost, which includes a lengthy afterword by Ellison describing what happened during production of the series.

Anthologies edited by

Dangerous Visions Again, Dangerous Visions Medea: Harlan's World

Collections edited by

Selected short stories

Comics adaptations of works by Ellisons

  • Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor, Vol. One, collecting the comic book series Dream Corridor, was published by Dark Horse Comics in 1996, artwork and adaptations by various artists and writers, and based on previously published short fiction by Ellison. Each issue had included one original short story.
  • Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor, Vol. Two was published by Dark Horse Comics in association with Edgeworks Abbey, Ellison's own imprint, in 2007. Artwork and adaptations by various artists and based on previous short fiction. This contained material not originally published in the original Dream Corridor series. Phoenix Without Ashes was published by IDW as a comic book.

Note

Stories originally contained in the Dream Corridor series, based on paintings by artists.
  • "Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral"
  • "Pulling Hard Time"
  • "Anywhere But Here, With Anyone But You"
  • "Chatting with Anubis"
  • "The Museum on Cyclops Avenue"

Original graphic novels

  • Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos, hardcover graphic novel by DC Comics, with illustrations by Paul Chadwick and coloring by Ken Steacy was published in July 2013 (based on Ellison's original treatment for the first Star Trek'' motion picture''

Other comics

In addition to the many adaptations of Ellison's work, as well as original stories for the graphic novel format, Ellison also wrote superhero comic book scripts for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, and several stories for various other publishers' comic book anthology series.

DC Comics

Marvel Comics

Video games

Memoirs

On an edition of Public Radio International's arts and culture series Studio 360 broadcast on May 30, 2008, Ellison announced that he had signed with a "major publisher" to produce his memoirs, under the tentative title Working Without a Net. That title first appeared in the television show Babylon 5, for which Ellison was a creative consultant: in the episode "TKO", the fictional character Susan Ivanova is seen reading and laughing at a book entitled Working Without a Net by Harlan Ellison in 2258. Ultimately, Ellison chose author Nat Segaloff to write his biography and sat down for several hours of interviews, with the understanding that Ellison would have no veto over what would be in the book. That book, A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison, was published on July 14, 2017, by NESFA Press.

Current publications

The print-on-demand publishers Edgeworks Abbey and Open Road publish works by Ellison.
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream was included in American Fantastic Tales, volume II, edited by Peter Straub and published by the Library of America in 2009. The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century edited by Tony Hillerman and Otto Penzler included Ellison's "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs."
In October 2010, a special hardcover collection Unrepentant: A Celebration of the Writings of Harlan Ellison was issued by MadCon, a convention in Wisconsin at which Ellison was the guest of honor. In addition to including "How Interesting: A Tiny Man" it also included "'Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman", "Some Frightening Films of the Forties" an illustrated bibliography of Ellison's fiction books by Tim Richmond, an article by Robert T. and Frank Garcia on Ellisons television work, an appreciation/essay by Dark Horse Comics publisher Michael Richardson, an article about Deep Shag's audio recordings of Ellison speaking engagements by Michael Reed, a 6-page B&W gallery of covers by Leo and Diane Dillon, a two-page Neil Gaiman-drawn cartoon and an official biography.
In March 2011, Subterranean Press released an expanded edition of Deathbird Stories featuring new introductory material, new afterwords and three additional stories.
In November 2011, Edgeworks Abbey and Spectrum Fantastic, published a pocket-sized gift book entitled Bugf#ck: The Useless Wit & Wisdom of Harlan Ellison. It contains quotes on writing, sex, politics, love and war, as well as pertinent excerpts from his short stories, and a handful of personal photographs of the author. In December 2011, Edgeworks Abbey began publishing original collections and retrospectives in two different series: the Brain Movies series and the Harlan 101 series. December 1, 2011 saw the simultaneous publication of four books: Brain Movies: Volume One, Brain Movies: Volume Two, Harlan 101: Encountering Ellison, and The Sound of a Scythe and Three Brilliant Novellas.
In May 2012, Kicks Books published Pulling a Train, the first of two reprints of early writings by Ellison, originally published in pulp magazines and in paperbacks for the crime fiction market. Simultaneously, the publisher of "Deep Shag" Records released "On the Road With Ellison, Volume Six".
In October 2012, Kicks Books published Getting in the Wind, the second half of a reissue of stories originally published as Sex Gang, under Ellison's Paul Merchant pseudonym in the 1950s.
In November 2012, Edgeworks Abbey published None of the Above, an unproduced screenplay adaptation of Norman Spinrad's novel, Bug Jack Barron, and Rough Beasts, seventeen never-before-collected pulp stories from the 1950s.
In April 2013, Hardcase Crime – publishers of original and reprint paperback crime fiction – published a reprint of Web of the City.
In May 2013, Edgeworks Abbey published Brain Movies: Volume Three and Brain Movies: Volume Four, two further collections of Ellison's teleplays, including two unproduced pilots.
In July 2013, DC Comics published, in hardcover, Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos, illustrated by Paul Chadwick.
In November 2013, Edgeworks Abbey and HarlanEllisonbooks.com published, Brain Movies: Volume Five, including a treatment for an unproduced episode of Batman, an unproduced, original teleplay, "The Dark Forces", and several others. Also published was Honorable Whoredom at a Penny A Word which is another collection – similar to Getting in the Wind, etc. – that collects Ellison's older, earlier fiction, written when he was learning his craft. This book collects stories written for men's magazines, "confessionals" and other digests of the pulp era, such as "The Golden Virgin", "Scum Town" and "They Killed My Kid!".
Edgeworks Abbey released four volumes in 2014: 8 in 80 by Ellison edited by Susan Ellison, Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word, Brain Movies: Volume Six, and Harlan Ellison's Endlessly Watching.
In 2014, Subterranean Press published The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison, collecting twenty-three of Ellison's Nebula, Hugo, Bram Stoker, Edgar, Best American Short Story and Locus-Award-winning short fiction.
In December 2015, Subterranean Press published Can & Can'tankerous, containing previously uncollected short stories by Harlan Ellison.

Voice acting

Audiobooks

Television

Documentary

In 2007, Dreams with Sharp Teeth received its first public screening at the Writers Guild Theatre in Los Angeles. The documentary about Ellison and his work was written and directed by Erik Nelson with archival footage of Ellison. It was released on DVD by New Video Group on May 26, 2009. Ellison's last public appearance in his hometown was in September 2007 for the Midwestern debut of the documentary at Cleveland Public Library.