Strange Wine By Harlan Ellison

Posted by Rosanna on January 5, 2011 at 11:02am

 

 

From Harlan Ellsion, whom The Washington Post regards as "lyric poet, satirist, explorer of odd psychological corners, moralist, one-line comedian, purveyor of pure horror and black comedy,"comes Strange Wine. Discover among these tales the spirits of executed Nazi war criminals who walk Manhattan streets, the damned soul of a murderess escaped from Hell, gremlins writing the fantasies of a gone-dry writer and the exquisite Dr. D(c)¨arque Angel who deals her patients doses of deathú Anything and everything that is good about short story collections is condensed into this one book, the scope of which ranges from satire ("The New York Review Of Bird") to humor ("Working With The Little People") to outright horror (the devastating "Croatoan").

Strange Wine is a 1978 short story collection by Harlan Ellison. It contains the following stories (as well as Ellison's own introduction for each tale):

    * Introduction: Revealed at Last! What Killed the Dinosaurs! And You Don't Look So Terrific Yourself.
    * Croatoan
    * Working With the Little People
    * Killing Bernstein
    * Mom
    * In Fear of K
    * Hitler Painted Roses
    * The Wine Has Been Left Open Too Long and the Memory Has Gone Flat
    * From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet
    * Lonely Women are the Vessels of Time
    * Emissary from Hamelin
    * The New York Review of Bird
    * Seeing
    * The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
    * Strange Wine
    * The Diagnosis of Dr. D'arqueAngel

 

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  • frankenstein1887 January 6, 2011 at 5:50pm
    Just wanted to add my Own thanks
    • Rosanna > frankenstein1887 January 7, 2011 at 11:20am

      You're welcome..

      I added another for the Harlan Ellison fans..

      Great stories..

  • Anson (Bob) Roberts January 5, 2011 at 11:45am
    Thank you! One can never have too much Ellison!
    • Bill Hollweg > Anson (Bob) Roberts January 6, 2011 at 4:54am
      YESS!!! More HARLAN!!!!!!!! Thank YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Rosanna January 5, 2011 at 11:14am

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    Harlan Ellison’s Deathbird Stories was selected by the American Library Association as one of the Best Books for Young Adults, 1975. School Library Journal said the same thing. This modern master of the macabre invites lovers of Poe, Kafka and Borges to a gourmet’s sampling of the headiest wine since Montressor’s Amontiillado. Strange Wine: the quaffing of deep drafts of imagination…unsettling visions by the man whom Pete Hamill called “the Dark Prince of American letters.” Fifteen previously uncollected tales in which the Pied Piper of Hamelin is come again, this time to pipe the Apocalypse for humanity; the spirits of executed Nazi war criminals walk Manhattan streets; the damned soul of a Lizzie Borden-like murderess escapes from Hell; a horny young man is haunted by the ghost of his Yiddishe Momma; an amoral womanizer seeks his awful destiny among the derelicts and alligators living in the sewers beneath the city; gremlins write the fantasies of a gone-dry writer; the nephew of The Shadow wreaks terrible vengeance on the New York Literary Establishment; and the exquisite Dr. D’ArqueAngel injects her patients with immunizing doses of the distillate of death.
    Read By George Backman
    Format: mp3
    Length: 8:12:12

     

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