Strange Wine

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 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"
• "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, 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) at the Wayback Machine (archived 2013-06-29)