Strange Wine
{{Short description|Short story collection}}
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{{Infobox book
| name = Strange Wine: Fifteen New Stories from the Nightside of the World
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| image = Strange Wine Cover.jpg
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| caption = First edition cover.
| author = Harlan Ellison
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| cover_artist = Leo and Diane Dillon
| country = United States
| language = English
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| genre = Speculative fiction
| published = 1978 (Harper & Row)
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| media_type = Print (paperback)
| pages = 262
| isbn = 0-06-011113-5
| oclc= 3446973
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Strange Wine is a 1978 short story collection by American writer Harlan Ellison.
Contents
The 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
Ellison 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".
External links
- http://www.islets.net/collections/strangewine.html
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