STALKING THE NIGHTMARE

Huntington Woods, Michigan: Phantasia Press, 1982. Book Club Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Ed Emshwiller. 8vo, Navy blue quarter cloth with red lettering on spine over lighter blue boards, Foreword by STEVEN KING, Mylar-protected decorative dust jacket (unclipped) with cover art by Jane MacKenzie, xvi + 299 pages. Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is an American writer whose principal genre was speculative fiction. His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, comic book scripts, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media. He was editor and anthologist for two famous science fiction anthologies, Dangerous Visions (1967) and Again, Dangerous Visions (1972). Ellison has won numerous awards including multiple Hugos, Nebulas and Edgars. STALKING THE NIGHTMARE (1982) was Ellison's 38th book: a collection of short stories and nonfiction pieces. The short stories are interspersed with "Scenes from the Real World" sections, which are essays on a variety of topics. Although most of the stories had NOT previously appeared in any of Ellison's books, four were taken from his 1970 collection Over the Edge.---Wikipedia SUPERIOR and UNCOMMON COPY internally and externally: tight, bright, clean with a crisp, bright, lively, & unclipped dust jacket with very slight rubbing to its extremities. Exciting bookplate from previous collector with SCI-FI art on front pastedown.