This is a list of works by Harlan Ellison (1934–2018). It includes his literary output, screenplays and teleplays, voiceover work, and other fields of endeavor.
Novels and novellas Web of the City (1958; originally published as Rumble) The Man with Nine Lives (1960; revised and reprinted in 2011 under the author's preferred title The Sound of a Scythe) Spider Kiss (1961; originally published as Rockabilly) Doomsman (1967; re-issued under the author's preferred title Way of an Assassin in the collection Rough Beasts) A Boy and His Dog (1969; made into a film) The Starlost #1: Phoenix Without Ashes (1975; adaptation by Edward Bryant of Ellison's TV pilot script) All the Lies That Are My Life (1980; later included in the author's 1980 collection Shatterday) Run for the Stars (1991; a 1957 novella here republished in a preferred text edition as part of a Tor Double) Mefisto in Onyx (1993; later included in the author's 1997 collection Slippage) Blood's a Rover (2018, Subterranean Press; a "fix-up" novel, consisting of "Eggsucker" and "Run Spot, Run", two short stories, as well as A Boy and His Dog and an unproduced teleplay from the 1970s, entitled "Blood's a Rover")
Short story collections The Deadly Streets (1958) Sex Gang (1959) (as by Paul Merchant) A Touch of Infinity (1960) Children of the Streets (1961) (originally published as The Juvies) Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation (1961) Ellison Wonderland (1962) (also published as Earthman, Go Home!) Ellison calls his home in Sherman Oaks, California "Ellison Wonderland." Paingod and Other Delusions (1965) I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967) From the Land of Fear (1967) Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled (1968) The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969) Over the Edge (1970) Partners in Wonder (1971) (collaborations with 14 other writers) Approaching Oblivion (1974) Deathbird Stories (1975) No Doors, No Windows (1975) Strange Wine (1978) Shatterday (1980) (reissued 2007 by Edgeworks Abbey/Tachyon Publications) Stalking the Nightmare (1982) Angry Candy (1988) Mind Fields (1994) (33 stories inspired by the art of Jacek Yerka) Slippage (1997) Troublemakers (2001) (collection produced for the Young Adult market and featuring, for the most part, previously collected material) Pulling a Train (2012, Kicks Books) Rough Beasts (2012, Edgeworks Abbey) Getting in the Wind (2013, Kicks Books) Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (2013, Edgeworks Abbey) Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (2014, Edgeworks Abbey) The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2014, Subterranean Press) 8 in 80 (2014, Edgeworks Abbey) Can & Can'tankerous (2015, Subterranean Press) Coffin Nails (2016, Charnel House) Ellison Under Glass (2018, Charnel House) Possibly Impossible (2021, Edgeworks Abbey) Harlan Ellison's Greatest Hits (2024) (posthumous short story collection, edited by J. Michael Straczynski)
Retrospectives and omnibus collections Alone Against Tomorrow: a 10-Year Survey (1971) (published in the UK in two volumes as All the Sounds of Fear (1973) and The Time of the Eye (1974)) The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison (1979) (contains "Paingod and Other Delusions" (1965) and "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" (1967)) The Essential Ellison: a 35-Year Retrospective (1987) (edited by Terry Dowling with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont) Dreams With Sharp Teeth (1991) (contains "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" (1967), Deathbird Stories (1975) and Shatterday (1980)) Edgeworks. 1 (1996) (contains "Over the Edge" (1970) and "An Edge in My Voice" (1985)) Edgeworks. 2 (1996) (contains "Spider Kiss" (1961) and "Stalking the Nightmare" (1982)) Edgeworks. 3 (1997) (contains "The Harlan Ellison Hornbook" (1990) and "Harlan Ellison's Movie" (1990)) Edgeworks. 4 (1997) (contains Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled (1968) and The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (1969)) The Essential Ellison: a 50-Year Retrospective Revised & Expanded (2001) (edited by Terry Dowling with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont) The Glass Teat Omnibus: The Glass Teat and The Other Glass Teat (2011) (published by Charnel House, a handmade book published in a very limited edition; includes a February 2011 audio recording of Ellison reading "Welcome to the Gulag", a new introduction written for this updated publication of his essays on and criticism of television.) The Top of the Volcano: The Award-winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (2014) Fingerprints On the Sky: The Authorized Harlan Ellison Bibliography, The Illustrated Reader's Guide edited by Tim Richmond (2015) Subterranean Press Note The White Wolf Edgeworks Series was originally scheduled to consist of 31 titles reprinted over the course of 20 omnibus volumes. Although an ISBN was created for Edgeworks. 5 (1998), which was to contain both Glass Teat books, this title never appeared. The series is notorious for its numerous typographical errors.
Nonfiction Memos from Purgatory (1961) The Glass Teat (1970) (essays of opinion on television, 1968–1970) The Other Glass Teat (1975) (further essays of opinion on television, 1970–1972) The Book of Ellison (1978) (edited by Andrew Porter) Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed (1984) (edited by Marty Clark) An Edge in My Voice (1985) Harlan Ellison's Watching (1989) (reissued 2008 by M Press) The Harlan Ellison Hornbook (1990) Harlan Ellison's Endlessly Watching (2014, Edgeworks Abbey) The Last Person to Marry a Duck Lives 300 Years Ago: Pointed Essays (2016, Edgeworks Abbey) FOE: Friends of Ellison (2019, Edgeworks Abbey) Why Do You Call Me Ishmael When You Know My Name Is Bernie? (2019, Edgeworks Abbey) Ask Uncle Harlan (2020, Edgeworks Abbey)
Editorials "Star Trek" (May 1987; The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction) "The End of Horror" (January 1991; The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
Television plays TV series Episode Original aired Note(s) Route 66 "A Gift for a Warrior?" 1963 Script by Larry Marcus based on a story by Ellison Ripcord "Where Do Elephants Go to Die?" 1963 Burke's Law "Who Killed Alex Debbs?" October 25, 1963, on ABC "Who Killed Purity Mather?" December 6, 1963, on ABC "Who Killed Andy Zygmunt?" March 13, 1964, on ABC "Who Killed 1/2 of Glory Lee?" May 8, 1964, on ABC The Outer Limits "Soldier" September 19, 1964, on ABC Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Price of Doom" October 12, 1964, on ABC Credited as "Cord Wainer Bird" The Outer Limits "Demon with a Glass Hand" October 17, 1964, on ABC Won the Writers Guild of America Award The Alfred Hitchcock Hour "Memo from Purgatory" December 21, 1964, on NBC Based on his autobiographical story "The Gang"The Man from U.N.C.L.E. "The Sort of Do-It-Yourself Dreadful Affair" September 23, 1966, on NBC "The Pieces of Fate Affair" February 24, 1967, on NBC Wrote the script and co-wrote the story with Yale Udoff Star Trek "The City on the Edge of Forever" April 6, 1967, on NBC Won the Hugo Award and Writers Guild of America Award for his original script Cimarron Strip "Knife in the Darkness" January 25, 1968, on CBS The Flying Nun "You Can't Get There from Here" April 11, 1968, on ABC Credited as "Cordwainer Bird" The Young Lawyers "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs" March 10, 1971, on ABC Unrelated to the Ellison story of the same name. Circle of Fear "Earth, Air, Fire and Water" January 19, 1973, on NBC Co-wrote the story with D. C. Fontana, who wrote the script The Starlost "Voyage of Discovery" (Original title "Phoenix Without Ashes") September 22, 1973 Credited as "Cordwainer Bird"; won the Writers Guild of America Award for his original script Logan's Run "Crypt" November 7, 1977, on CBS Story only; teleplay by Al HayesThe Twilight Zone "Paladin of the Lost Hour" November 8, 1985, on CBS Based on Ellison's short story of the same name; won the Writers Guild of America Award "Gramma" February 14, 1986, on CBS Based on the short story by Stephen King "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" April 1, 1989, in syndication Cadillacs and Dinosaurs "Wildfire" January 28, 1994, on CBS Story only, teleplay by David Wise Babylon 5 "A View from the Gallery" February 11, 1998, on TNT Co-wrote the story with J. Michael Straczynski, who wrote the scriptThe Hunger "The Face of Helene Bournouw" February 27, 1998, on Showtime Credited as "Cordwainer Bird" "Footsteps" March 27, 1998, on Showtime Story only; credited as "Cordwainer Bird"; teleplay by Gerald Wexler Silver Surfer "Antibody" April 11, 1998, on Fox Kids Story only; teleplay by Larry Brody and Michael Steven Gregory Babylon 5 "Objects in Motion" November 11, 1998, on TNT Co-wrote the story with J. Michael Straczynski, who wrote the script Masters of Science Fiction "The Discarded" August 25, 2007, on ABC Co-wrote the script with Josh Olson; based on Ellison's short story "The Abnormals" (sometimes titled "The Discarded") Love, Death & Robots "Life Hutch" May 14, 2021, on Netflix Based on the short story by Ellison, screenplay by Philip Gelatt
Published/produced screenplays and teleplays The Oscar, with Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse, from the novel by Richard Sale. Phoenix Without Ashes (original, unaired and unaltered, Writers Guild of America Award-winning teleplay), published in Faster Than Light (1975, Harper & Row), alongside original stories by George R.R. Martin and Ben Bova, and reprints by Isaac Asimov. I, Robot (1994), (based on stories by Isaac Asimov, illustrated by Mark Zug) The City on the Edge of Forever (1996), (Star Trek episode, original screenplay, with commentary. For an in-depth review of this book see.Lysator.liu.se This script was also published in Six Science Fiction Plays (1976) edited by Roger Elwood) Harlan Ellison's Movie (1990), (unproduced feature-length screenplay serialised in Ellison's weekly newspaper column The Harlan Ellison Hornbook and collected in the omnibus volume Edgeworks. 3 (1996)) Flintlock (unproduced Harlan Ellison teleplay) (1987), (unproduced pilot teleplay for a proposed 1972 TV series based on James Coburn's character in Our Man Flint, published in both editions of the retrospective volume The Essential Ellison (1987, 2001)) The Whimper of Whipped Dogs (1975), (teleplay produced in the TV series The Young Lawyers, serialised in Ellison's weekly newspaper column The Glass Teat and collected in The Other Glass Teat (1975); unrelated to Ellison's later 1973 short story, "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs") The Whimper of Whipped Dogs (unfinished screenplay based on Ellison's 1973 short story of the same title as, but completely unrelated to the Young Lawyers teleplay referenced above; three treatments of the opening sequence were published in the June 1988 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and later appeared in Harlan Ellison's Watching (1989)) Soldier, produced for The Outer Limits in 1964; published alongside the short story on which it was based in his 1967 collection From the Land of Fear. Crazy as a Soup Sandwich, produced for The Twilight Zone in 1989; published in his 1997 collection Slippage. Nackles, written for The Twilight Zone, an adaptation of a Donald E. Westlake story written, but never produced, in 1985, published in The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1986 and in a limited edition of Slippage which was published Mark Ziesing in 1997. Memo from Purgatory, produced for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in 1964, Soldier, produced for The Outer Limits in 1964, Demon With a Glass Hand, produced for The Outer Limits in 1964, Paladin of the Lost Hour, produced for The Twilight Zone in 1985, Crazy as a Soup Sandwich produced for The Twilight Zone in 1989, and The Face of Helene Bournouw, produced for The Hunger in 1998, were all published in Brain Movies: The Original Teleplays of Harlan Ellison, Volume One, published by Edgeworks Abbey/Publishing 180 in 2011.