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The beast that shouted love at the heart of the world

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It is wholly inaccurate to categorize what Harlan Ellison writes as "science fiction" even as it is pejorative to call the stories of Edgar Allan Poe "detective fiction" or the novels of A. B. Guthrie "westerns". Poe wrote Poe-stories, Guthrie told Guthrie-stories, and Harlan Ellison's visions are peculiarly his own. "Fantasies" might be closer, yet no fantasist working today manages to trap the mist of fantasy in the Klein Bottle of contemporary events as well as the author of these fifteen strange and strangely-disturbing stories.

A summary of the wonders in this largest single collection of Mr. Ellison's recent work reads like the itinerary for a trip down a bottomless rabbit hole.

• The Beast That Shouted Love At The Heart Of The World won Mr. Ellison his fourth Hugo award at the 1969 World Science Fiction Convention. It is a circular story that begins with a psychopathic killer and ends on the hushed shores of a thought, in the shadow of a sigh.

• Try A Dull Knife explores the parameters of the terrifying paranoid delusion of a man whose vampirish friends feed on his slow charisma leak.

• Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R. includes such mind-boggling scenes as the shootout that takes place in the men's room of the Camarillo State Mental Institution between a James Bond Kris Kringle and Ronald Reagan in the form of a 7-headed hydra.

• The Place With No Name advances the dizzying theory that Christ and Prometheus were homosexual alien lovers.

• And a major new novella written especially for this volume with the deceptively gentle title A Boy And His Dog.

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Publisher
Avon
Language
English
Pages
245

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The beast that shouted love at the heart of the world
1984, Bluejay Books, Distributed by St. Martin's Press
in English
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The beast that shouted love at the heartof the world
1979, Pan Books
in English
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The beast that shouted love at the heart of the world
1977, Millington
in English
Cover of: The beast that shouted love at the heart of the world
Cover of: The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
1969, Avon Publishing Co.
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Table of Contents

The beast that shouted love at the heart of the world.
Along the scenic route.
Phoenix.
Asleep; with still hands.
Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R.
Try a dull knife.
The pitllpawob division.
The place with no name.
White on white.
Run for the stars.
Are you listening?
S.R.O.
Worlds to kill.
Shattered like a glass goblin.
A boy and his dog.

Edition Notes

Short stories.

Published in
New York
Series
An Avon book

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.5/4
Library of Congress
PZ4.E4695 Be 1977, PS3555.L62 Be 1977

The Physical Object

Pagination
245 p.
Number of pages
245

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24930716M
Internet Archive
beastthatshouted00elli
OCLC/WorldCat
1262909

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