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Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (May 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Strange Wine: Fifteen New Stories from the Nightside of the World First edition cover Author Harlan Ellison Cover artist Leo and Diane Dillon Language English Genre Speculative fiction Published 1978 (Harper & Row) Publication place United States Media type Print (paperback) Pages 262 ISBN 0-06-011113-5 OCLC 3446973 ***Strange Wine*** is a collection of [short stories](/source/Short_story) by American writer [Harlan Ellison](/source/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](/source/Croatoan_(Ellison))" - "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](/source/From_A_to_Z%2C_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](/source/Science_fiction_bookstore), [A Change of Hobbit](/source/A_Change_of_Hobbit). [Stephen King](/source/Stephen_King) considered this one of the best [horror fiction](/source/Horror_fiction) books published between 1950 and 1980 in his 1981 non-fiction book about the horror genre, [*Danse Macabre*](/source/Danse_Macabre_(King_book)), 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 - [Ellison / Strange Wine (at former islets.net)](https://web.archive.org/web/20130629011731/http://www.islets.net/collections/strangewine.html) at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) (archived 2013-06-29) 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 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Strange Wine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Wine) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Wine?action=history)). 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