{{Short description|Book by Harlan Ellison}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = Ellison Wonderland | translator = | image = File:EllisonWonderland.jpg | caption = First edition | author = [[Harlan Ellison]] | illustrator = | cover_artist = Victor Kalin | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = [[Science fiction]] | publisher = [[Paperback Library]] | release_date = [[1962 in literature|1962]] | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (paperback) | pages = 191 | isbn = | oclc = 8228843 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}

'''''Ellison Wonderland''''' is a collection of short stories by author [[Harlan Ellison]] that was originally published in 1962. Gerry Gross bought the book from Ellison in 1961, providing him with the funds he needed to move to Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ellison |first1=Harlan |title=Ellison Wonderland |date=June 1984 |publisher=Bluejay Books, Inc |isbn=0312941331 |page=3}}</ref> Subsequent payments after the book was published supplied the author with enough money to survive until he was able to find a job writing for a television series.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ellison |first1=Harlan |title=Ellison Wonderland |date=June 1984 |publisher=Bluejay Books, Inc |isbn=0312941331 |page=4}}</ref> It was later reprinted in 1974 by [[New American Library]] with an introduction by Ellison.

The stories are in the genre of [[speculative fiction]], and concentrate on the themes of loneliness, the end of the world, and the flaws of humanity. Ellison wrote a short introduction to each story, a tradition that he would repeat in many of his later [[Harlan Ellison bibliography#Short story collections|short story collections]]. Many of the stories in this collection, such as "All the Sounds of Fear", "The Very Last Day of a Good Woman" and "In Lonely Lands", would turn up in later anthologies of Ellison's short stories.

==Contents== *Introduction: The Man on the Mushroom *Commuter's Problem *Do-it-yourself *The Silver Corridor *All the Sounds of Fear *Gnomebody *The Sky is Burning *Mealtime *The Very Last Day of a Good Woman *Battlefield *Deal from the Bottom *The Wind Beyond the Mountains *Back to the Drawing Boards *Nothing for My Noon Meal *Hadj *Rain, Rain, Go Away *In Lonely Lands

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