On the Downhill Side [short fiction]
by Harlan Ellison
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For Halloween, I took in this short story in the vinyl "audiobook" form Harlan Ellison Reads On the Downhill Side
Harlan Ellison [The Harlan Ellison Record Collection – HE110], a rare numbered and signed collectable. This NOLA ghost story travels from The Irish Channel to Jackson Square. A ghost and his unicorn, unseen by mortals, finally gets in contact with lost love.
Harlan Ellison [The Harlan Ellison Record Collection – HE110], a rare numbered and signed collectable. This NOLA ghost story travels from The Irish Channel to Jackson Square. A ghost and his unicorn, unseen by mortals, finally gets in contact with lost love.
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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 I Must Scream; and Stalking the Nightmare: Stories show more 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
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- Canonical title
- On the Downhill Side [short fiction]
- Original title
- On the Downhill Side [short story]
- Original publication date
- 1972
- People/Characters*
- Lizette; Paul Ordahö
- Important places*
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Epigraph*
- In der Liebe gibt es immer einen, der küßt, und einen, der die Wange hinhält.
Französisches Sprichwort - First words*
- Ich wußte, daß sie Jungfrau war, weil es ihr gelang, die seidige Mähne meines Einhorns durcheinanderzubringen.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Das Glück der seidigen Mähne und der Regenbogenfarben und der Platinhufe und des Spiralenhorns.
- Original language*
- English
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