{{Short description|Short story collection}} {{Multiple issues| {{One source|date=May 2024}} {{No footnotes|date=May 2024}} }} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox book | name = Strange Wine: Fifteen New Stories from the Nightside of the World | image = Strange Wine Cover.jpg | image_size = 280 | caption = First edition cover | author = [[Harlan Ellison]] | illustrator = | cover_artist = [[Leo and Diane Dillon]] | country = United States | language = English | series = | subject = | genre = [[Speculative fiction]] | published = 1978 ([[Harper (publisher)|Harper & Row]]) | release_date = | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (paperback) | pages = 262 | isbn = 0-06-011113-5 | oclc = 3446973 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}
'''''Strange Wine''''' is a collection of [[short story|short stories]] by American writer [[Harlan Ellison]], published in 1978.
==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 (Ellison)|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" (the story) while sitting in the window of Westwood-area [[science fiction bookstore]], [[A Change of Hobbit]].
[[Stephen King]] considered this one of the best [[horror fiction]] books published between 1950 and 1980 in his 1981 non-fiction book about the horror genre, [[Danse Macabre (King book)|''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== *{{webarchive |title= Ellison / Strange Wine (at former islets.net) |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130629011731/http://www.islets.net/collections/strangewine.html}}
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[[Category:1978 short story collections]] [[Category:Short story collections by Harlan Ellison]] [[Category:English-language short story collections]]