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Strange Wine is a 1978 short story collection by American writer Harlan Ellison.
 First edition cover. | |
| Author | Harlan Ellison |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Leo and Diane Dillon |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Speculative fiction |
| Published | 1978 (Harper & Row) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 262 |
| ISBN | 0-06-011113-5 |
| OCLC | 3446973 |
Contents
editThe book 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"
Reception
editEllison wrote "Strange Wine" while sitting in the window of Westwood-area science fiction bookstore, A Change of Hobbit.
Stephen King considered this one of the best horror fiction books published between 1950 and 1980 in his 1981 non-fiction book about the horror genre, Danse Macabre, specifically reviewing the stories "Croatoan", "Hitler Painted Roses", "Lonely Women are the Vessels of Time", "Emissary from Hamelin" and "From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet".