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• 1 • Introduction: Sublime Rebel • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 5 • Lagniappe • essay by Terry Dowling
• 11 • Beginnings • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 15 • The Sword of Parmagon • (1949) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 21 • The Gloconda • (1949) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 27 • The Wilder One • (1955) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 29 • The Saga of Machine Gun Joe • (1955) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 31 • Introduction to "Glowworm" • (1977) • essay by Harlan Ellison (variant of About "Glowworm")
• 35 • Glowworm • (1956) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 47 • Life Hutch • [Earth-Kyba War] • (1956) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 59 • S.R.O. • (1957) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 71 • Worlds of Terror • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 73 • Lonelyache • (1964) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 89 • Punky & the Yale Men • (1966) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 113 • A Prayer for No One's Enemy • (1966) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 131 • Pulling Hard Time • (1995) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 137 • Worlds of Love • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 139 • In Lonely Lands • (1959) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 145 • The Time of the Eye • (1959) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 153 • Grail • (1981) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 175 • That New Old-Time Religion • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 177 • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream • (1967) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 191 • Corpse • (1972) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 199 • The Whimper of Whipped Dogs • (1973) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 217 • A Stab of Merriment • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 219 • The Voice in the Garden • (1967) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 221 • Erotophobia • (1971) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 227 • Mom • (1976) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 239 • Ecowareness • (1974) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 241 • The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists • (1982) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 245 • Dept. of "What Was the Question?" Dept. • (1974) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 247 • Dept. of "Trivial Pursuit" Dept. • (1986) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 251 • Prince Myshkin, and Hold the Relish • (1982) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 257 • Trouble With Women • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 261 • The Very Last Day of a Good Woman • (1958) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 269 • Valerie: A True Memoir • (1972) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 283 • The Other Eye of Polyphemus • (1977) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 291 • All the Birds Come Home to Roost • (1979) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 301 • To the Mattresses With Mean Demons • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 307 • The Tombs • (1961) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 347 • "Our Little Miss" • (1970) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 355 • A Love Song to Jerry Falwell • (1984) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 361 • Telltale Tics and Tremors • (1977) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 371 • True Love: Groping for the Holy Grail • (1978) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 391 • Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W • (1974) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 419 • The Function of Dream Sleep • (1988) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 441 • Rococo Technology • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 447 • The Sky Is Burning • (1958) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 455 • The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World • (1967) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 473 • Along the Scenic Route • (1969) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 483 • The Song the Zombie Sang • (1970) • short story by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg
• 495 • Knox • (1974) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 509 • With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole • [Medea] • (1985) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 527 • Heart's Blood • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 531 • From Alabamy, with Hate • (1965) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 543 • My Father • (1972) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 549 • My Mother • (1976) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 557 • Tired Old Man • non-genre • (1975) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 567 • Gopher in the Gilly • [Scenes from the Real World • 4] • (1982) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 573 • Strange Wine • (1976) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 581 • Nights & Days in Good Old Hollyweird • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 585 • The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie • (1968) • novella by Harlan Ellison
• 655 • Flintlock: An Unproduced Teleplay • non-genre • (1987) • short fiction by Harlan Ellison
• 735 • The Man on the Mushroom • (1974) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 739 • Somehow, I Don't Think We're in Kansas, Toto • [Scenes from the Real World • 3] • (1974) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 755 • Face-Down in Gloria Swanson's Swimming Pool • (1978) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 759 • Petards & Hangings • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 763 • Soldier • (1957) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 781 • The Night of Delicate Terrors • (1961) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 789 • Shattered Like a Glass Goblin • (1968) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 797 • At the Mouse Circus • (1971) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 807 • Shadows from the Past • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 809 • Free with This Box! • (1958) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 817 • Final Shtick • (1960) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 827 • One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty • (1970) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 841 • Jeffty Is Five • (1977) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 863 • Daniel White for the Greater Good • (1961) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 873 • Neither Your Jenny nor Mine • (1964) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 907 • Alive and Well and on a Friendless Voyage • (1977) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 919 • The Classics • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 923 • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman • (1965) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 933 • Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes • (1967) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 951 • A Boy and His Dog • [Vic and Blood • 2] • (1969) • novella by Harlan Ellison
• 985 • The Deathbird • (1973) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 1011 • Paladin of the Lost Hour • (1985) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 1031 • Soft Monkey • (1987) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 1043 • Mefisto in Onyx • (1993) • novella by Harlan Ellison
• 1085 • Process • essay by Terry Dowling
• 1089 • Where I Shall Dwell in the Next World • (1992) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 1099 • The Museum on Cyclops Avenue • (1995) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 1109 • Objects of Desire in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear • (1999) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 1119 • Man on Spikes • (1998) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 1127 • Introduction to "Tired Old Man" • (1999) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 1131 • The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore • (1991) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 1147 • Dark Liberation • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling
• 1151 • The Thick Red Moment • (1982) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 1169 • The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge • (1978) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 1181 • Driving in the Spikes • (1983) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 1191 • An Edge in My Voice, Installment 55 (19 December 1982) • (1982) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 1195 • The Streets, Installment 1 (19 July 1990) • (1990) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 1199 • Xenogenesis • (1990) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 1237 • Afterword (The Essential Ellison) • (1987) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 8561 • Contracts on the Soul • (1987) • essay by Terry Dowling