Order of Harlan Ellison Books

Harlan Ellison was an American writer renowned for his unique contributions to New Wave speculative fiction. Throughout his career, he published over 1,700 works across various formats, including short stories, screenplays, and comic books. He is perhaps most famous for penning the iconic Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever.” Ellison received eight Hugo Awards, four Nebula Awards, five Bram Stoker Awards, and two Edgar Awards during his lifetime. He also garnered several Lifetime Achievement Awards and was nominated for a Grammy Award later in his career.

Harlan Ellison became a published novelist in 1905 with the novel The Thinking Machine. Below is a list of Harlan Ellison's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Thinking Machine	(1905)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Memos From Purgatory	(1961)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Glass Teat	(1970)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Other Glass Teat	(1975)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed	(1984)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
An Edge in My Voice	(1985)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Harlan Ellison's Watching	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Harlan 101	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Working Without a Net	(2020)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Vic and Blood Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Vic and Blood	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Blood's a Rover	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Web of the City	(1958)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Man with 9 Lives	(1959)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Touch of Infinity	(1959)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Spider Kiss	(1961)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Doomsman	(1972)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Phoenix Without Ashes	(1975)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman	(1965)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Boy and His Dog	(1969)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Region Between	(1970)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Deathbird	(1973)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Jeffty Is Five	(1977)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
All the Lies That Are My Life	(1980)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Paladin of the Lost Hour (in Twilight Zone Magazine)	(1985)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Soft Monkey	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Function of Dream Sleep	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Function of Dream Sleep (in Asimov's)	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Chatting with Anubis	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Run for the Stars	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Harlan Ellison's Movie	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Li'l Harlan and His Sidekick Carl the Comet in Danger Land	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Deadly Streets	(1958)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Getting in the Wind	(1959)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sex Gang	(1959)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Children of the Streets / The Juvies	(1961)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Gentleman Junkie	(1961)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ellison Wonderland	(1962)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Paingod and Other Delusions	(1965)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
From the Land of Fear	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled	(1968)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World	(1968)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Over the Edge	(1970)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Alone Against Tomorrow	(1972)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
All the Sounds of Fear	(1973)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Approaching Oblivion	(1974)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Time of the Eye	(1974)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
No Doors, No Windows	(1975)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Deathbird Stories	(1975)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Illustrated Harlan Ellison	(1978)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Strange Wine	(1978)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Fantasies of Harlan Ellison	(1979)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Shatterday	(1980)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Stalking the Nightmare	(1982)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Essential Ellison	(1985)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mefisto in Onyx	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Night and the Enemy	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Angry Candy	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Footsteps	(1989)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Harlan Ellison Hornbook	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Spider Kiss / Stalking the Nightmare	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Slippage	(1997)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Troublemakers	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dreams with Sharp Teeth	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Phantom Chronicles, Volume 2	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Pulling a Train	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Rough Beasts	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word (With: Jason Davis)	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Top of the Volcano	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Can & Can'tankerous	(2015)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Ephemeral Ellison	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Ellison Treatment	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dimensions of Harlan Ellison	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Greatest Hits	(2024)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Plays Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The City on the Edge of Forever	(1977)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
None of the Above	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Graphic Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Brain Movies Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Brain Movies, Volume 1	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Brain Movies, Volume 2	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Brain Movies, Volume 3	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Brain Movies, Volume 4	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Brain Movies, Volume 5	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Brain Movies, Volume 6	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Brain Movies, Volume 7	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Brain Movies, Volume 8	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Dream Corridor Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Dream Corridor Special	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dream Corridor Quarterly	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dream Corridor 1	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dream Corridor 2 (By: Gerard Jones)	(2007)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Star Trek Fotonovel Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The City on the Edge of Forever	(1977)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Trouble with Tribbles (By: David Gerrold)	(1977)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of The Dark Descent Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Volume I: The Color of Evil (With: Stephen King,Robert Bloch,Shirley Jackson,Ray Bradbury,David G. Hartwell,J. Sheridan Le Fanu,E. Nesbit,Charles L. Grant,H.P. Lovecraft,Fritz Leiber,Nathaniel Hawthorne,M.R. James,Karl Edward Wagner,Manly Wade Wellman,Russell Kirk,John Collier,Robert Aickman,Lucy Clifford,Michael Shea)	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield (By: Stephen King,Flannery O'Connor,William Faulkner,Theodore Sturgeon,David G. Hartwell,Tanith Lee,J. Sheridan Le Fanu,Michael Bishop,Ramsey Campbell,Henry James,H.P. Lovecraft,Joanna Russ,Richard Matheson,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,D.H. Lawrence,Dennis Etchison,Thomas M. Disch,Clive Barker,Robert Aickman,Robert Hichens,Edgar Allen Poe)	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Big Countdown: Amazing Stories, December 1958	(1958)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dangerous Visions 3	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dangerous Visions	(1967)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Partners in Wonder	(1971)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Again, Dangerous Visions	(1972)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
More Stories from the Hugo Winners, Vol. 2	(1973)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 20th Series	(1973)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader	(1973)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973	(1973)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Again, Dangerous Visions 2	(1973)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction	(1973)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology	(1974)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Jack the Knife: Tales of Jack the Ripper	(1975)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Six Science Fiction Plays	(1975)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Weird Heroes Volume 2	(1975)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Andromeda 1	(1976)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lone Star Universe	(1976)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series V	(1977)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Study War No More	(1977)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Chrysalis 1	(1977)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy, November 1977	(1977)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures	(1979)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Nebula Awards 13	(1980)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century	(1980)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969	(1981)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The First Omni Book of Science Fiction	(1983)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Great Fantasy	(1983)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction	(1985)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Medea	(1985)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Twilight Zone Magazine, December 1985	(1985)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King	(1986)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 12	(1986)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Volume I: The Color of Evil	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Dark Void	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
First Annual Collection	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1988	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror	(1989)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Borderlands 1	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Alien Sex	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1990	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Best New Horror 2	(1991)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Horror Hall of Fame	(1991)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dante's Disciples	(1991)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dark Destiny II: Proprietors of Fate	(1991)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mammoth Book of Vampires	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Murder Plus	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Giant Book of Best New Horror	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Ultimate Undead	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dark Destiny	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ten Tales	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Seventh Annual Collection	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Best New Horror 5	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Best New Horror 6	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Cthulhu 2000	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hanukkah Lights of Stories and Narrative About Hanukkah	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dark Terrors 2	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Outer Limits, Volume One	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hollywood Fantasies: Ten Surreal Visions of Tinsel Town	(1997)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
In the Shadow of the Gargoyle	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 2001	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Fourteenth Annual Collection	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Century of Great Suspense Stories	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine: Joe Haldeman and Others	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Balm in Gilead - Salves from the Souk of Imagination	(2007)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Nebula Awards 41 (2007)	(2007)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Nebula Awards Showcase 2007	(2007)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Summer Chills	(2007)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Living Dead	(2008)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Son of Retro Pulp Tales	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Curse of the Full Moon: A Werewolf Anthology	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Crucified Dreams	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lore: A Quaint and Curious Volume of Selected Stories	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Fantastic Stories of the Imagination	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Season of Wonder	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Fear the Abyss	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury	(2015)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Darker Terrors 7	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Silent Night, Deadly Night	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Science Fiction Gems, Volume 15, Milton Lessor and Others	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Blood Is Not Enough	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volumes 2 & 3	(2022)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Last Dangerous Visions	(2024)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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