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• 1 • Introduction: Sublime Rebel • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 5 • Beginnings • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 11 • The Sword of Parmagon • (1949) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 17 • The Gloconda • (1949) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 23 • The Wilder One • (1955) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 25 • The Saga of Machine Gun Joe • (1955) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 27 • Glowworm • (1956) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 41 • Life Hutch • [Earth-Kyba War] • (1956) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 53 • S.R.O. • (1957) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 63 • Worlds of Terror • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 67 • Lonelyache • (1964) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 83 • Punky & the Yale Men • (1966) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 107 • A Prayer for No One's Enemy • (1966) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 125 • Worlds of Love • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 129 • In Lonely Lands • (1959) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 135 • The Time of the Eye • (1959) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 143 • Grail • (1981) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 163 • That New Old-Time Religion • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 167 • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream • (1967) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 181 • Corpse • (1972) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 189 • The Whimper of Whipped Dogs • (1973) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 205 • A Stab of Merriment • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 209 • The Voice in the Garden • (1967) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 211 • Erotophobia • (1971) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 217 • Mom • (1976) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 229 • Ecowareness • (1974) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 231 • The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists • (1982) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 235 • Dept. of "What Was the Question?" Dept. • (1974) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 237 • Dept. of "Trivial Pursuit" Dept. • (1986) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 241 • Trouble With Women • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 245 • The Very Last Day of a Good Woman • (1958) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 253 • Valerie: A True Memoir • (1972) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 267 • The Other Eye of Polyphemus • (1977) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 275 • All the Birds Come Home to Roost • (1979) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 287 • To the Mattresses With Mean Demons • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 293 • The Tombs • (1961) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 333 • "Our Little Miss" • (1970) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 341 • A Love Song to Jerry Falwell • (1984) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 347 • Telltale Tics and Tremors • (1977) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 357 • True Love: Groping for the Holy Grail • (1978) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 377 • Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W • (1974) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 407 • Rococo Technology • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 413 • The Sky Is Burning • (1958) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 421 • The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World • (1967) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 439 • Along the Scenic Route • (1969) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 449 • The Song the Zombie Sang • (1970) • short story by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg
• 461 • Knox • (1974) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 475 • Heart's Blood • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 481 • From Alabamy, with Hate • (1965) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 493 • My Father • (1972) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 499 • My Mother • (1976) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 507 • Tired Old Man • non-genre • (1975) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 517 • Gopher in the Gilly • [Scenes from the Real World • 4] • (1982) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 523 • Strange Wine • (1976) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 531 • Nights & Days in Good Old Hollyweird • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 537 • The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie • (1968) • novella by Harlan Ellison
• 607 • Flintlock: An Unproduced Teleplay • non-genre • (1987) • short fiction by Harlan Ellison
• 687 • The Man on the Mushroom • (1974) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 691 • Somehow, I Don't Think We're in Kansas, Toto • [Scenes from the Real World • 3] • (1974) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 707 • Face-Down in Gloria Swanson's Swimming Pool • (1978) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 711 • Petards & Hangings • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 715 • Soldier • (1957) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 735 • The Night of Delicate Terrors • (1961) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 743 • Shattered Like a Glass Goblin • (1968) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 751 • At the Mouse Circus • (1971) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 759 • Shadows from the Past • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 763 • Free with This Box! • (1958) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 771 • Final Shtick • (1960) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 781 • One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty • (1970) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 795 • Jeffty Is Five • (1977) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 813 • Contracts on the Soul • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 817 • Daniel White for the Greater Good • (1961) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 827 • Neither Your Jenny nor Mine • (1964) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 861 • Alive and Well and on a Friendless Voyage • (1977) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 871 • The Classics • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 877 • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman • (1965) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 887 • Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes • (1967) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 905 • A Boy and His Dog • [Vic and Blood • 2] • (1969) • novella by Harlan Ellison
• 939 • The Deathbird • (1973) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 965 • Dark Liberation • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 971 • The Thick Red Moment • (1982) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 989 • The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge • (1978) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 1003 • Driving in the Spikes • (1983) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 1015 • Afterword (The Essential Ellison) • (1987) • essay by Harlan Ellison