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Harlan
Ellison
Deathbird
Stories
Cover art by Barclay Shaw
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All persons, places and organizations in this book--except those clearly in the public domain--are fictitious,
and any resemblance that may seem to exist to actual persons, places, or organizations living, dead, or
defunct is purely coincidental. These are works of fiction.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Excerpt on page 259 from “Little Gidding” in Four Quartets, copyright © 1943. by T. S. Eliot; copyright ©
1971, by Esme Valerie Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. / “The Whimper of
Whipped Dogs” appeared in the Harper & Row anthology BAD MOON RISING (edited by Thomas M. Disch).
Copyright © 1973 by Harlan Ellison. / “Along the Scenic Route” copyright © 1969 by Harlan Ellison. / “On the
Downhill Side” appeared in UNIVERSE 2 (edited by Terry Carr). Copyright © 1972 by Harlan Ellison. / “O Ye
of little Faith” copyright © 1968 by Harlan Ellison. / “Neon” copyright © 1973 by Harlan Ellison./”Basilisk”
appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (edited by Edward L. Ferman). Copyright © 1972 by
Harlan Ellison. / “Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes” originally appeared in Knight Magazine. Copyright © 1967 by
Sirkay Publishing Company. Copyright reassigned to Author 19 September 1967. Copyright © 1967 by
Harlan Ellison. / “Corpse” appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Copyright © 1972 by
Harlan Ellison. / “Shattered like a Glass Goblin” copyright © 1968 by Harlan Ellison. “Delusion for a Dragon
Slayer” originally appeared in Knight Magazine. Copyright © 1966 by Sirkay Publishing Company. Copyright
reassigned to Author 16 April 1968. Copyright © 1968 by Harlan Ellison. / “The Face of Helene Bournouw”
copyright © 1960, 1967 by Harlan Ellison. / “Bleeding Stones” appeared in Vertex (edited by Don Pfiel).
Copyright © 1972 by Harlan Ellison. / “At the Mouse Circus” appeared in NEW DIMENSIONS 1 (edited by
Robert Silverberg). Copyright © 1971 by Harlan Ellison. / “The Place with No Name” appeared in The
Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Copyright © 1969 by Mercury Press. Inc. Copyright reassigned to
Author, 1979. Copyright © 1979 by Harlan Ellison. / “Paingod” originally appeared in Fantastic. Copyright ©
1964 by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Copyright reassigned to Author 6 January 1981. Copyright © 1981
by The Kilimanjaro Corporation. / “Ernest and the Machine God” originally appeared in Knight Magazine.
Copyright © 1968 by Sirkay Publishing Company. Copyright reassigned to Author. 1968. Copyright © 1968 by
Harlan Ellison. / “Rock God” copyright © 1969 by Harlan Ellison. / “Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans:
Latitude 38°54’N. Longitude 77°00’ 13”W” appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Copyright
© 1974 by Harlan Ellison. / “The Deathbird” appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Copyright © 1973 by Harlan Ellison.
