num_pages: 288
description: Harlan Ellison's masterwork of myth and terror as he seduces all innocence on a mind-freezing odyssey into the darkest reaches of mortal terror and the most dazzling heights of Olympian hell in his finest collection.Deathbird Stories is a collection of 19 of Harlan Ellison's best stories, including Edgar and Hugo winners, originally published between 1960 and 1974. The collection contains some of Ellison's best stories from earlier collections and is judged by some to be his most consistently high quality collection of short fiction. The theme of the collection can be loosely defined as God, or Gods. Sometimes they're dead or dying, some of them are as brand-new as today's technology. Unlike some of Ellison's collections, the introductory notes to each story can be as short as a phrase and rarely run more than a sentence or two. One story took a Locus Poll Award, the two final ones both garnered Hugo Awards and Locus Poll awards, and the final one also received a Jupiter Award from the Instructors of Science Fiction in Higher Education (discontinued in 1979). When the collection was published in Britain, it won the 1979 British Science Fiction Award for Short Fiction.His stories will rivet you to the floor and change your heartbeat...as unforgettable a chamber of horror, fantasy and reality as you'll ever experience.-Gallery "Brutally and flamboyantly shocking, frequently brilliant, and always irresistibly mesmerizing."-Richmond Times-Dispatch
language: English
title: Deathbird Stories
titlecomplete: Deathbird Stories
genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Anthologies, Collections, Short Stories, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Mythology, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 4388
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novelette for "The Deathbird", awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novelette for "The Deathbird", awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Novelette for "The Deathbird", awardedAt: 189331200000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Collection, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Collection
publisher: Science Fiction Book Club