Eco-planetary pantheon: Environmental horror in Harlan Ellison’s Deathbird Stories
Journal: Iowa State University Digital Repository (Iowa State University)
Year: 2019

​During the environmentalist movement of the 1960s and 1970s, speculative fiction writer Harlan Ellison published a collection of short stories titled Deathbird Stories that perfectly accomplished and still accomplishes the goals of the movement. Following both the pre-established American tradition of the ecogothic and the patterns of the revolutionary “New Wave” era of science fiction, many stories in Ellison’s anthology set out to terrify and encourage ecological awareness in readers. These s