# Ellison Wonderland

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Book by Harlan Ellison

Ellison Wonderland First edition Author Harlan Ellison Cover artist Victor Kalin Language English Genre Science fiction Publisher Paperback Library Publication date 1962 Publication place United States Media type Print (paperback) Pages 191 OCLC 8228843

***Ellison Wonderland*** is a collection of short stories by author [Harlan Ellison](/source/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.[1] 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.[2] It was later reprinted in 1974 by [New American Library](/source/New_American_Library) with an introduction by Ellison.

The stories are in the genre of [speculative fiction](/source/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 [short story collections](/source/Harlan_Ellison_bibliography#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

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Ellison, Harlan (June 1984). *Ellison Wonderland*. Bluejay Books, Inc. p. 3. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0312941331](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0312941331).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Ellison, Harlan (June 1984). *Ellison Wonderland*. Bluejay Books, Inc. p. 4. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0312941331](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0312941331).

v t e Harlan Ellison Bibliography Novels and novellas Web of the City Spider Kiss A Boy and His Dog Mefisto in Onyx Short story collections The Deadly Streets Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation Ellison Wonderland Paingod and Other Delusions Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World Alone Against Tomorrow Approaching Oblivion Deathbird Stories No Doors, No Windows Strange Wine Shatterday Stalking the Nightmare Angry Candy Slippage Can & Can'tankerous Short stories "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans" "The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" "Croatoan" "The Deathbird" "The Discarded" "From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet" "The Function of Dream Sleep" "How Interesting: A Tiny Man" "How's the Night Life on Cissalda?" "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" "Jeffty Is Five" "Paladin of the Lost Hour" "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" ""Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman" "Soldier from Tomorrow" "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs" Collaborations Phoenix Without Ashes Mind Fields Television work "Soldier" "Demon with a Glass Hand" "The City on the Edge of Forever" "Paladin of the Lost Hour" "Gramma" "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" Adaptations I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream "Shatterday" A Boy and His Dog (1975 film) Anthologies edited Dangerous Visions Again, Dangerous Visions Medea: Harlan's World The Last Dangerous Visions Non-fiction Memos from Purgatory The Glass Teat & The Other Glass Teat Harlan Ellison's Watching The Harlan Ellison Hornbook Related The Voice From the Edge

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