Harlan Ellison (1934–2018)
Author of Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories
About the Author
Harlan Ellison was born in Cleveland, Ohio on May 27, 1934. He was the author of numerous short story collections including Strange Wine; The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World; Harlan Ellison's Watching; Deathbird Stories; Repent Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman; I Have No Mouth and show more I Must Scream; and Stalking the Nightmare: Stories and Essays. He received numerous awards including the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writer's Association, the Edgar Allen Poe Award, and the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2011. He published two collections of his columns on television for the Los Angeles Free Press entitled The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat. He edited several anthologies including Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories and Medea: Harlan's World. He received the Milford Award for Lifetime Achievement in Editing. He also wrote scripts for TV series including Burke's Law, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. He served as creative consultant on the new version of The Twilight Zone in the 1980s and as conceptual consultant on Babylon 5. He won the Writer's Guild of America's Award for Most Outstanding Teleplay four times. He died on June 27, 2018 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
In 2005, Harlan Ellison filed for a trademark with the US Patent and Trademark office. Officially, Harlan Ellison® is a registered trademark of The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
Image credit: Photo taken at DragonCon, September 2004, by Keith Cramer
Series
Works by Harlan Ellison
Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories — Editor; Contributor — 1,894 copies
Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories (1997) — Introduction, some editions — 540 copies
The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay that Became the Classic Star Trek Episode (1977) — Author — 528 copies
Edgeworks 4: Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled / The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1997) 190 copies
Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed: Essays (I.O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy & Criticism of Literature, No. 5) (1984) 137 copies
Dreams With Sharp Teeth: a Three Volume Omnibus - 42 remarkable fantasies with a new introduction (1991) 91 copies
On the Downhill Side [short fiction] 13 copies
Adrift Just off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N Longitude 77° 00' 13 W (1974) 11 copies
The Whimper of Whipped Dogs 11 copies
Basilisk [novelette] 9 copies
A Toy for Juliette [short fiction] — Author — 9 copies
Paingod [short story] 7 copies
Ernest and the Machine God 7 copies
Ellison Under Glass 6 copies
Sensible City [short fiction] 6 copies
O Ye of Little Faith 6 copies
Djinn, No Chaser 5 copies
Catman [Short story] 5 copies
The Place with No Name [short story] 5 copies
Bleeding Stones [Short story] 5 copies
Silent In Gehenna 5 copies
Try a Dull Knife 5 copies
The Face of Helene Bournouw 5 copies
I'm Looking for Kadak [Short story] 5 copies
How Interesting: A Tiny Man 5 copies
The Crackpots 4 copies
Seeing 4 copies
Star Trek: Harlan Ellison's City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay #4 (Regular Cover) (2014) 4 copies
Star Trek: Harlan Ellison's City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay #3 (Regular Cover) (2014) 4 copies
Neon 4 copies
Blind Lightning [short story] 4 copies
Rock God 4 copies
Shatterday [short fiction] 4 copies
Goodbye To All That 4 copies
Killing Bernstein 4 copies
Deeper Than the Darkness 4 copies
Cold Friend 4 copies
The Power of the Nail 3 copies
Let Her Kill Herself 3 copies
A Path Through The Darkness 3 copies
Laugh Track {short story} 3 copies
Keyboard 3 copies
Chatting With Anubis 3 copies
Incognita, Inc (short story) 3 copies
Coffin Nails 3 copies
Eidolons {short story} 3 copies
Night Vigil 3 copies
Kiss of Fire [Short story] 3 copies
Invasion Footnote [short story] 3 copies
The Hour that Stretches 3 copies
The Discarded 3 copies
Bright Eyes 3 copies
Fever [short fiction] 3 copies
Broken Glass {short story} 3 copies
Jane Doe #112 [short fiction] 3 copies
Worlds to Kill [novelette] 3 copies
Eyes of Dust (short story) 3 copies
Are You Listening? 3 copies
Tracking Level [short story] 3 copies
Daredevil, Vol. 1 #209 2 copies
Escapegoat {short story} 2 copies
On the Slab 2 copies
Stuffing 2 copies
Quicktime 2 copies
The Avenger of Death 2 copies
The City on the Edge of Forever (Harlan Ellison Collecton) by Ellison, Harlan (2014) Paperback (1900) 2 copies
Star Trek: Harlan Ellison's City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay #5 (Regular Cover) 2 copies
Gentleman Junkie [short story] 2 copies
IO, ROBOT 2 copies
GIGANTE SENZA TEMPO 2 copies
When Auld's Acquaintance Is Forgot 2 copies
The Last Dangerous Visions 2 copies
The End of the Time of Leinard 2 copies
The Few, the Proud [short story] 2 copies
G.B.K.—A Many Flavored Bird 2 copies
Hadj [short story] 2 copies
Rain, Rain, Go Away [short story] 2 copies
The Silver Corridor 2 copies
The Starlost 2 copies
Flop Sweat 2 copies
Wonderbird 2 copies
Rodney Parish for Hire {short work} 2 copies
The Kong Papers {short work} 2 copies
Phoenix [short story] 2 copies
Susan [short story] 2 copies
Enter the Fanatic Stage Center 2 copies
Sally in Our Alley 2 copies
Riding The Dark Train Out 2 copies
The Universe Of Robert Blake 2 copies
Battle Without Banners 2 copies
Nedra at f:5.6 [short story] 2 copies
Opposites Attract [short story] 2 copies
Toe the Line [short story] 2 copies
Down in the Dark [short story] 2 copies
The Children’s Hour [short story] 2 copies
Thicker Than Blood [short story] 2 copies
Promises of Laughter [short story] 2 copies
Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R. 2 copies
Gnomebody [short story] 2 copies
White on White [short story] 2 copies
The Day I Died [short story] 2 copies
Commuter's Problem 2 copies
Visionary [short story] 2 copies
Moonlighting [short fiction] 2 copies
The Goddess in the Ice [short story] 2 copies
Tiny Ally [short story] 2 copies
Do-It-Yourself 2 copies
Transcending Destiny [short story] 2 copies
The New York Review of Bird 2 copies
Final Trophy [short story] 2 copies
Go Toward the Light 2 copies
Night of Black Glass [short story] 2 copies
Blank... [short story] 2 copies
Quiet Lies the Locust Tells 2 copies
The Rocks of Gogroth 1 copy
Now You're In the Box! 1 copy
May We Also Speak? 1 copy
A Touch of Infinity 1 copy
Sex Gang 1 copy
Payment Returned Unopened 1 copy
VISIONES PELIGROSAS III 1 copy
High Dice 1 copy
The Late Great Arnie Draper 1 copy
No Game for Children 1 copy
This Is Jackie Spinning 1 copy
Pain God 1 copy
Dearthbird Stories 1 copy
The Truth 1 copy
The Adventures of Doctor Who 1 copy
There's One on Every Campus 1 copy
"Run, Spot, Run" 1 copy
Lady Bug Lady Bug 1 copy
Inside the Turret 1 copy
Eggsucker 1 copy
Memory of a Muted Trumpet 1 copy
Eidolon magazine 1 copy
Vic & Blood Stories 1 copy
The Thing at the Top of the Stairs/Eidolons — Contributor — 1 copy
EDGEWORKS Four volume set Including: Over the Edge/ An Edge in my Voice, Spider Kiss/Stalking the Nightmare, The Harlan… (1997) 1 copy
Rogue Magazine 1 copy
Dream Corridor Press Kit 1 copy
Ellison Unfrocked 1 copy
Someone Is Hungrier 1 copy
Turnpike 1 copy
Would You Do It For a Penny? 1 copy
First Holy Chameleon 1 copy
O pentachronos Tzefti 1 copy
The Man with nine lives 1 copy
L is for Loup-Garou 1 copy
Ellison Harlan 1 copy
Mealtime [short story] 1 copy
Battlefield [short story] 1 copy
The Twilight Zone No. 1 1 copy
Logan's Run: Crypt [script] 1 copy
In Fear of K [short story] 1 copy
World of Women 1 copy
Weariness (short story) 1 copy
The Dead Shot [short story] 1 copy
Mona at Her Windows 1 copy
No Fourth Commandment 1 copy
RFD #2 1 copy
Have Coolth 1 copy
The Silence of Infidelity 1 copy
A Lot of Saucers 1 copy
The Assassin 1 copy
Opium 1 copy
Django 1 copy
Shoppe Keeper 1 copy
Wanted in Surgery 1 copy
Rat Hater [short story] 1 copy
Sob Story {short story} 1 copy
Joy Ride [short story] 1 copy
Kid Killer [short story] 1 copy
Made in Heaven [short story] 1 copy
Associated Works
The Stephen King Companion: Four Decades of Fear from the Master of Horror (2015) — Contributor, some editions — 569 copies
Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy (1990) — Contributor — 483 copies
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Contributor — 315 copies
Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction (1974) — Contributor — 291 copies
The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2004) — Contributor — 269 copies
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Contributor — 263 copies
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 (1982) — Contributor — 240 copies
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Contributor — 184 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read with the Door Locked (1975) — Contributor — 161 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 49 • June 2014 (Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue) (2014) — Narrator, some editions — 159 copies
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology (2009) — Contributor — 130 copies
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction, Volume 3: Supermen (1948) — Contributor — 123 copies
The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology (1999) — Contributor — 118 copies
Chekov's Enterprise: A Personal Journal of the Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1980) — Introduction, some editions — 113 copies
They Came From Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures (1980) — Contributor — 94 copies
More Wandering Stars: Outstanding Stories of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction (1981) — Contributor — 93 copies
Nebula Awards 31: SFWA's Choices For The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year (Nebula Awards Showcase) (No… (1997) — Contributor — 92 copies
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1985) — Contributor — 69 copies
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Contributor — 62 copies
Nebula Awards 29: SFWA's Choices For The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year (Nebula Awards Showcase) (1995) — Contributor — 55 copies
Nebula Awards 27: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (1993) — Contributor — 51 copies
The Edgar Winners: 33rd Annual Anthology of the Mystery Writers of America (1980) — Contributor — 45 copies
Murder Plus: True Crime Stories from the Masters of Detective Fiction (1958) — Contributor — 44 copies
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories: Twisted Tales Not to Be Read at Night! (2019) — Contributor — 42 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1977, Vol. 53, No. 1 (1977) — Contributor — 28 copies
Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny (2016) 27 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October/November 1994, Vol. 87, No. 4 & 5 (1994) — Author — 27 copies
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCVIII, No. 8 (August 1978) (1978) — Contributor — 25 copies
Transformations: Understanding World History Through Science Fiction (1973) — Contributor — 25 copies
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCIV, No. 2 (October 1974) (1974) — Contributor — 24 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1976, Vol. 51, No. 4 (1976) — Contributor — 19 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1990, Vol. 79, No. 4 (1990) — Contributor — 18 copies
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A 45th Anniversary Anthology (1994) — Contributor — 18 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1991, Vol. 80, No. 1 (1991) — Contributor — 18 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October/November 1996, Vol. 91, No. 4 & 5 (1996) — Contributor — 18 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1996, Vol. 90 No. 1 (1996) — Contributor — 17 copies
Stan Lee presents The Incredible Hulk : Featuring a Classic Tale by Harlan Ellison (1982) — Contributor, some editions — 16 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1990, Vol. 79, No. 3 (1990) — Contributor — 16 copies
Van Jules Verne tot Isaac Asimov de vijftig beste science fiction verhalen (1981) — Contributor — 15 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1980, Vol. 59, No. 5 (1980) — Contributor — 15 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1982, Vol. 63, No. 4 (1982) — Author — 15 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 11, No. 13 [Mid-December 1987] (1987) — Contributor — 15 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1985, Vol. 68, No. 6 (1985) — Film reviewer — 14 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1984, Vol. 67, No. 2 (1984) — Columnist — 14 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1990, Vol. 78, No. 1 (1990) — Contributor — 13 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1986, Vol. 70, No. 3 (1986) — Contributor — 13 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1988, Vol. 75, No. 2 (1988) — Contributor — 12 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1988, Vol. 75, No. 3 (1988) — Film reviewer — 12 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1990, Vol. 78, No. 3 (1990) — Contributor — 12 copies
Hollywood Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from America's Film Capital (American Ghost Series) (1991) — Contributor — 12 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1985, Vol. 68, No. 2 (1985) — Contributor — 12 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1989, Vol. 76, No. 1 (1989) — Contributor — 12 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1990, Vol. 78, No. 5 (1990) — Contributor — 11 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 11, No. 12 [December 1987] (1987) — Contributor — 11 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1982, Vol. 62, No. 1 (1982) — Contributor — 11 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 13 [Mid-December 1986] (1986) — Contributor — 11 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1985, Vol. 69, No. 4 (1985) — Film reviewer — 10 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1989, Vol. 77, No. 4 (1989) — Contributor — 10 copies
Tricks and Treats: An Anthology of Mystery Stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1976) — Contributor — 9 copies
Special Wonder: The Anthony Boucher Memorial Anthology of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1970) — Contributor — 9 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1989, Vol. 77, No. 1 (1989) — Contributor — 9 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 68. Mythen der nahen Zukunft. (1984) — Contributor — 7 copies
The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine: Joe Haldeman and Others — Narrator, some editions — 5 copies
Fantastic Imaginings: A Journey Through 3500 Years of Imaginative Writing, Comprising Fantasy, Horror, and Science… (2012) — Introduction — 4 copies
Tider skal komme : 15 langtidsvarsler : en science fiction-antologi — Contributor — 4 copies
An American Family Shakespeare Entertainment, Vol. 2: Based on Charles & Mary Lambs Tales from Shakespeare, with… (2009) — Narrator, some editions — 3 copies
Subterranean Magazine Summer 2014 — Contributor — 3 copies
The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, March-April 2003 (Unabridged) (audio) — Narrator — 3 copies
New Worlds Science Fiction 75, September 1958 — Contributor — 3 copies
Un passo avanti e due indietro — Contributor — 3 copies
I Premi Hugo 1976-1983 — Contributor — 3 copies
Monolith 003 : Almanah Znanstveno-fantasticne Knjizevnosti (Monolith, No. 003) (2000) — Contributor — 3 copies
Nuove avventure nell'ignoto — Contributor — 2 copies
Super-Science Fiction : 1958-06 : Vol 2 No 4 — Contributor — 2 copies
The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, July-August 2003 — Narrator — 2 copies
Midnight Graffiti: No. 1, June 1988 — Contributor — 1 copy
Rod Serling's the Twilight Zone Magazine 1987 01 January-February — Contributor — 1 copy
Rod Serling's the Twilight Zone Magazine 1985 12 December — Contributor — 1 copy
Harper's Magazine 1989 Oct. — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Ellison, Harlan
- Legal name
- Ellison, Harlan Jay
- Other names
- Harson, Sley
Nosille, Nalrah
Bird, Cordwainer
Ellis, Harlan
Charby, Jay
Hart, Ellis (show all 12)
Magnus, John
Merchant, Paul
Roeder, Pat
Jorgenson, Ivar
Tiger, Derry
Solo, Jay - Birthdate
- 1934-05-27
- Date of death
- 2018-06-28
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Place of death
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Sherman Oaks, California, USA
Painesville, Ohio, USA
New York, New York, USA - Education
- Ohio State University
- Occupations
- novelist
short-story writer
editor
essayist
scriptwriter - Relationships
- Ellison, Susan (spouse)
- Organizations
- United States Army (1957-59)
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America - Awards and honors
- Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (2006)
Bram Stoker Award (5x)
World Horror Convention Grand Master Award (2000)
Science Fiction Hall Of Fame (2011)
Hugo Award (8x)
Nebula Award (4x) (show all 13)
Edgar Award (2x)
World Fantasy Award (2x)
Georges Méliès Award (2x)
Inkpot Award (1987)
World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (1993)
Horror Writers Lifetime Achievement Award (1996)
J. Lloyd Eaton Lifetime Achievement Award in Science Fiction (2011) - Disambiguation notice
- In 2005, Harlan Ellison filed for a trademark with the US Patent and Trademark office. Officially, Harlan Ellison® is a registered trademark of The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
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