Deathbird Stories: A Pantheon of Modern Gods

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Deathbird Stories: A Pantheon of Modern Gods

Author:	Harlan Ellison
Publisher:	e-reads, 2009 Harper & Row, 1975
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Book Type:	Collection
Genre:	Science-Fiction / Fantasy / Horror
Sub-Genre Tags:	Dark Fantasy Fairytale Horror Contemporary Fantasy
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Lists:	Easton Press Masterpieces of Science Fiction The Defining Science Fiction Books of the 1970s Horror: 100 Best Books
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Synopsis

Harlan Ellison's masterwork of myth and terror as he seduces all innocence on a mind-freezing odyssey into the darkest reaches of mortal terror and the most dazzling heights of Olympian hell in his finest collection.

Deathbird Stories is a collection of 19 of Harlan Ellison's best stories, including Edgar and Hugo winners, originally published between 1960 and 1974. The collection contains some of Ellison's best stories from earlier collections and is judged by some to be his most consistently high quality collection of short fiction.

The theme of the collection can be loosely defined as God, or Gods. Sometimes they're dead or dying, some of them are as brand-new as today's technology. Unlike some of Ellison's collections, the introductory notes to each story can be as short as a phrase and rarely run more than a sentence or two. One story took a Locus Poll Award, the two final ones both garnered Hugo Awards and Locus Poll awards, and the final one also received a Jupiter Award from the Instructors of Science Fiction in Higher Education (discontinued in 1979).

When the collection was published in Britain, it won the 1979 British Science Fiction Award for Short Fiction. His stories will rivet you to the floor and change your heartbeat... as unforgettable a chamber of horror, fantasy and reality as you'll ever experience. -Gallery

"Brutally and flamboyantly shocking, frequently brilliant, and always irresistibly mesmerizing." -Richmond Times-Dispatch

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Oblations at Alien Altars - essay
The Whimper of Whipped Dogs - (1973) - shortstory
Along the Scenic Route - (1969) - shortstory
On the Downhill Side - (1972) - shortstory
O Ye of Little Faith - (1968) - shortstory
Neon - (1973) - shortstory
Basilisk - (1972) - shortstory
Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes - (1967) - novelette
Corpse - (1972) - shortstory
Shattered Like a Glass Goblin - (1968) - shortstory
Delusion for a Dragon Slayer - (1966) - shortstory
The Face of Helene Bournouw - (1960) - shortstory
Bleeding Stones - (1973) - shortstory
At the Mouse Circus - (1971) - shortstory
The Place with No Name - (1969) - shortstory
Paingod - (1964) - shortstory
Ernest and the Machine God - (1968) - shortstory
Rock God - (1969) - shortstory
Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W - (1974) - novelette
The Deathbird - (1973) - novelette