Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed
Essays by Harlan Ellison®
 Master essayist, gadfly, literary myth-figure and viewer of dark portent, Harlan Ellison has been, for the greater part of his life, a burr under the saddle of Complacency. His two books of TV criticism, THE GLASS TEAT and THE OTHER GLASS TEAT, are taught in more than 200 universities and colleges.
In this, his former assistant and confidante, Marty Clark, has culled from hundreds of rare and unreprinted works twenty wide-ranging essays that demonstrate why the monstre sacré of imaginative literature won the prestigious Silver Pen award of P.E.N. International for his journalistic frays in 1982.
Cover Art by Leo & Diane Dillon
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Edited by Marty Clark. Copyright © 1984 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
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Editor's Introduction by Marty Clark, copyright © 1984 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"You Don't Know Me, I Don't Know You," copyright © 1977 by Harlan Ellison. Renewed, 2005 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"Stealing Tomorrow" by Tom Reamy, copyright © 1974 by Torn Reamy.
"Down the Rabbit-Hole to TV-Land," copyright © 1967 by Harlan Ellison. Renewed, 1996 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"Revealed at Last! What Killed the Dinosaurs! And You Don't Look So Terrific Yourself," copyright © 1978 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"Epiphany," copyright © 1982 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"Rolling Dat Ole Debbil Electronic Stone," copyright 0 1982 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"A Love Song to Jerry Falwell" (in embryonic form and under assorted titles), copyright © 1969, 1975 by Harlan Ellison. Copyright © 1983, 1984 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation. Renewed, 1997, 2003 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"Science Fiction: Turning Reality Inside-Out," copyright CO 1974 by Harlan Ellison. Renewed, 2002 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"Defeating the Green Slime," copyright © 1976 by Harlan Ellison. Renewed, 2004 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"How You Stupidly Blew Fifteen Million Dollars a Week, Avoided Having an Adenoid-Shaped Swimming Pool in Your Backyard, Missed the
Opportunity to Have a Mutually Destructive Love Affair with Clint Eastwood and/or Raquel Welch, and Otherwise Pissed Me Off," copyright © 1978 by Harlan Ellison. Renewed, 2006 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"Fear Not Your Enemies," copyright © 1981 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"Face Down in Gloria Swanson's Swimming Pool," copyright © 1978 by Harlan Ellison. Renewed, 2006 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"From Alabamy, with Hate," copyright © 1965 by Harlan Ellison. Renewed, 1993 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"Leiber: A Few Too Few Words," copyright © 1979 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"Serita Rosenthal Ellison: A Eulogy," copyright © 1976 by Harlan Ellison. Renewed, 2004 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"Centerpunching," copyright © 1969 by Harlan Ellison. Renewed, 1997 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"Voe Doe Dee Oh Doe," copyright © 1977 by Harlan Ellison. Renewed, 2005 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"Robert Silverberg: An Appreciation," copyright © 1983 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"Cheap Thrills on the Road to Hell," copyright © 1982 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
"True Love" Groping for the Holy Grail," copyright © 1978 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
DEDICATION
For the other meanest,
shortest guy in town—
destroyer lawyer and
friend to the heart of
the flames, the unquenchable
HENRY W. HOLMES, JR.
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