''Strange Wine'' is a 1978
short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the old ...
collection by American writer
Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave science fiction, New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality. His published wo ...
.
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
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. Dubbed the "King of Horror", he is widely known for his horror novels and has also explored other genres, among them Thriller (genre), suspense, crime fiction, crime, scienc ...
considered this one of the best
horror fiction
Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare an audience. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon, in 1984, defin ...
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
{{Harlan Ellison
1978 short story collections
Short story collections by Harlan Ellison