Deathbird Stories

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Subterranean Press is proud to present the expanded, definitive edition of Harlan Ellison’s landmark collection of stories, in an oversize hardcover edition.

SOME BOOKS BECOME CLASSICS

For more than three decades this singular collection of stories in which the New Gods of freeways, and slot machines, internal combustion deities and evil so enormous that it swallows the streets in shadow, for more than thirty years the power of this book has compelled the attention of not only readers of imaginative bent, but the praise of hard-line literary critics. One cannot codify modern literature of the fantastic without including a reference or selection from this dark book of godly and troubling stories that will not be ignored.

SOME WRITERS BECOME LEGENDS

Ellison. Harlan Ellison. He wrote this book midway toward the earliest acclaim of a career that now goes into sixty years. He’s still with us. the enfant terrible has become an eminence gris but the tongue remains sharp, the wit unpredictable, the manner still singular. He has outwritten and outlived his caste, and the words in this book carry the fire and truth of his career.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword: Oblations at Alien Altars
• A Word about Time (*)
• From A to Z, in the Sarsaparilla Alphabet (*)
• The Whimper of Whipped Dogs
• Along the Scenic Route
• On the Downhill Side
• O Ye of Little Faith
• Scartaris, June 28th (*)
• Neon
• Basilisk
• The Face of Helene Bournouw
• Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38°54’N, Longitude 77°00’13’’W
• Rock God
• Bleeding Stones
• Ernest and the Machine God
• Delusion for a Dragon Slayer
• Corpse
• Shattered Like a Glass Goblin
• Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes
• Paingod
• At the Mouse Circus
• The Place With No Name
• The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore (*)
• The Deathbird
• Afterword: Moving in Mysterious Ways (*)
• A Word About the Cover Art (*)

(*) Exclusive to the Expanded Edition

Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition and sold out at the publisher

Limited to 500 signed numbered copies, slipcased, bound in leather, with illustrated endsheets by Leo & Diane Dillon and sold out at the publisher

Lettered: 26 deluxe hardcovers, bound in leather, with illustrated endsheets by Leo & Diane Dillon, housed in a custom traycase and sold out at the publisher