The Harlan Ellison Hornbook

1990 compilation by Harlan Ellison

The Harlan Ellison Hornbook

First trade edition (publ. Penzler)

Author| Harlan Ellison
Language| English
Subject| essays
Publisher| Mirage Press (signed, numbered), Warner Books Inc.

Publication date

| 1990
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print (Hardcover)
Pages| 417 pp
ISBN| 978-0-89296-239-6

The Harlan Ellison Hornbook is a 1990 compilation of columns written by Harlan Ellison for several counterculture newspapers in Los Angeles, mostly for the Los Angeles Free Press and the L.A. Weekly News in 1972 and 1973.

Many of the essays are of an autobiographical nature as Ellison writes about particularly colorful moments from his past, including a love affair gone bad with a woman who he identifies only as "Valerie," an infamous diatribe about his hatred of Christmas entitled, "No Offense Intended, But Fuck Xmas!", a tribute to his departed dog Ahbhu, and a chilling account of his journey to San Quentin State Prison to visit a man on death row.

Also included is an article about Lenny Bruce that originally appeared in Los Angeles magazine, a tribute to the comic wit of illustrator George L. Carlson, and an essay defending comic books as a legitimate art form entitled, "Did Your Mother Throw Yours Out?" that originally appeared in Playboy magazine.

Mirage Press simultaneously published the Hornbook in a signed and numbered slipcased edition in 1990, along with the separate companion volume of the screenplay for Harlan Ellison's Movie. Both were reprinted again in Edgeworks 3, published by White Wolf Publishing in 1997.

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Novels and novellas|

* Web of the City
* Spider Kiss
* A Boy and His Dog
* Mefisto in Onyx

Short story
collections|

* The Deadly Streets
* Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation
* Ellison Wonderland
* Paingod and Other Delusions
* Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled
* The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
* Alone Against Tomorrow
* Approaching Oblivion
* Deathbird Stories
* No Doors, No Windows
* Strange Wine
* Shatterday
* Stalking the Nightmare
* Angry Candy
* Slippage
* Can & Can'tankerous

Short stories|

* ”Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans”
* “The Beast that Shouted Love at The Heart of the World”
* “Croatoan”
* “The Deathbird”
* “The Discarded”
* “The Dragon on the Bookshelf”
* “From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet”
* “The Function of Dream Sleep”
* “How Interesting: A Tiny Man”
* “How's the Night Life on Cissalda?”
* “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”
* “Jeffty Is Five”
* “Paladin of the Lost Hour”
* “The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World”
* “"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman”
* “Soldier from Tomorrow”
* “The Whimper of Whipped Dogs”

Collaborations|

* Phoenix Without Ashes
* Mind Fields

Television work|

* "Soldier"
* "Demon with a Glass Hand"
* "The City on the Edge of Forever"
* "Paladin of the Lost Hour"
* "Gramma"
* "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich"
* "A View from the Gallery"
* "Objects in Motion"

Consultant|

* Babylon 5
* The Gathering
* In the Beginning
* Thirdspace
* The River of Souls
* A Call to Arms

Adaptations|

* I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
* "The Human Operators"
* "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty"
* "Shatterday"
* A Boy and His Dog (1975 film)
* "Djinn, No Chaser"

Anthologies edited|

* Dangerous Visions
* Again, Dangerous Visions
* Medea: Harlan's World
* The Last Dangerous Visions

Non-fiction|

* Memos from Purgatory
* The Glass Teat & The Other Glass Teat
* Harlan Ellison's Watching
* The Harlan Ellison Hornbook

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