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Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison (1934-2018)

literary critic, journalist, film critic, editor

  • Ohio State University

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Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
The Fantasy Hall of Fame [22 stories]
The Dark Descent
The Living Dead
The Ultimate Zombie
Wolf's Complete Book of Terror
No Doors, No Windows
Alien Sex
Memos from Purgatory
Stalking the nightmare
Stalking the nightmare
No Doors, No Windows: Stories
Memos from Purgatory
No Doors, No Windows
Strange attraction
Memos from Purgatory
Memos from Purgatory
Deadly Streets
Deadly Streets
No Doors, No Windows
The Fantasy Hall of Fame [30 stories]
The Hugo Winners [volume I]
Masterpieces
Machines That Think
Galaxy
The Hugo Winners, Volumes one and two
Microcosmic Tales
Grave Predictions
Supermen
Nebula Award Stories Eight
The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time
The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction. A 30-year retrospective
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Science Fiction A to Z
Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume Four
Shatterday
Spider Kiss
The Second Omni book of science fiction
The New Hugo winners, Volume II
Again, Dangerous Visions
Harlan Ellison's The city on the edge of forever (teleplay)
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 19 (1957)
The Hugo Winners, Volume 2 (1962 - 1970)
100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories
Alone against tomorrow
The Hugo Winners, Volume Three
Partners in Wonder
Science Fiction Gems
Angry candy
An edge in my voice
Sleepless nights in the Procrustean bed
Faszination der Science Fiction
Deathbird stories
The Color of Evil
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction 5 - Tin stars
Blood Is Not Enough: Stories of Vampirism
Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores
Dangerous Visions
I, Robot
The Super Hugos
Stories from The Hugo Winners, Volume 2
Wandering Stars
The beast that shouted love at the heart of the world
Approaching Oblivion
Strange Wine
"Repent, Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman
Harlan Ellison's dream corridor
New Dimensions 1 Fourteen Original Science Fiction Stories
Infinity Science Fiction, June 1957
The Hugo Winners, Volume Four (1976 - 1979)
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
The Best of Subterranean
Paingod and Other Delusions
The Deadly Streets
The Essential Ellison
The Hugo Winners. Volume 3, Book 2
Vic and Blood
Partners in wonder
Slippage
Gentleman Junkie
Partners in wonder
The fantasies of Harlan Ellison
Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks
The Harlan Ellison hornbook
Approaching oblivion
Star Trek - the City on the Edge of Forever - Fotonovel
Troublemakers
The Best of Galaxy 2
Protectors 2: Heroes (Protectors Anthologies) (Volume 2)
Mefisto in Onyx
Harlan Ellison's 7 against chaos
Ellison wonderland
Green Hornet Chronicles
Harlan Ellison's watching
Children of the Streets
Season of Wonder
The other glass teat
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
The Dark Void
Ender's Game Alive
Deathbird stories
Web of the City
New Dimensions 1 Fourteen Original Science Fiction Stories
Harlan Ellison's dream corridor
Univers 01
Dangerous visions
Approaching oblivion
Again Danger
The glass teat
The Avengers Omnibus Vol. 4
2020 Vision
Batman '66
Hanukkah lights
Beast That Shouted
Strange Wine
Angry Candy
Edgeworks
Mind Fields
Best Science Fiction for 1972
Night and the Enemy (Dover Graphic Novels)
The Harlan Ellison Hornbook
Ellison wonderland
Strange Wine (The Harlan Ellison Collection)
Partners In Wonder
Dangerous Visions
Ellison Wonderland
Vic and Blood
Harlan Ellison's Watching
Worthless Wit and Wisdom of Harlan Ellison
Run for the Stars/Echoes of Thunder (Tor Sf Double, No 32)
Partners in Wonder
Again Dangrous Vsn Tr
Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Quarterly
Approaching Oblivion
Gentleman Junkie
Ellison Wonderland
Web of the city
Illustrated Ellison
The Hugo Winners, Volume Three, Part Three (1974-1975)
Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos
La Machine aux yeux bleus
Slippage
Stalking The Nightmare
The Avengers Omnibus Vol. 3
The timeof the eye
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
The Voice from the Edge
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
Strange wine
Shatterday
The glass teat
Dangerous visions
Dangerous visions; 33 original stories
All the Lies That Are My Life / Ltd., Numbered & Signed Edition
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Voice from the Edge, Vol. I (Fantastic Audio Series : the Voice from the Edge, Volume 1)
Phoenix Without Ashes
Gentleman junkie and other stories of the hung-up generation
Deathbird Stories
Lore
Stalking the Nightmare (The Harlan Ellison Collection)
This Book Needs No Introduction By Harlan Ellison
Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled
Edgeworks 3
Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled
The Voice from the Edge midnight in the sunken cathedral
Troublemakers
Stan Lee Presents the Incredible Hulk
The Incredible Hulk
Run for the Stars
Harlan Ellison's Movie
Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Special
From the Land of Fear
Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Volume 1 (Dark Horse Comics Collection)
Stalking The Nightmar
The Other Glass Teat
Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed
Heart of the Atom
I have no mouth and I must scream
From the Land of Fear
The Voice from the Edge, Volume 1
Again, Dangerous Visions, Vol. 1
Deathbird Stories
Futures Past
Fiction # 227
Deathbird Stories
Over the edge
Shatterday (The Harlan Ellison Collection)
Dangerous visions
The Other Glass Teat
Edgeworks: Spider Kiss
Shatterday
An Edge in My Voice
Spider Kiss
An Edge in My Voice
Paingod: And Other Delusions
Mind Fields: The Art of Jacek Yerka
Dangerous Visions (SF Masterworks)
The Savoy Book
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: Stories
Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
Strange Wine: Stories
Rogue Dragon
The Harlan Ellison Hornbook
The Glass Teat
Blood's a Rover
Ellison Wonderland
The Deadly Streets
Shatterday: Stories
Fear the Abyss
Over the Edge
Spider Kiss (The Harlan Ellison Collection)
Paingod and other delusions
Children of the Streets
Dangerous visions
Blood's a Rover
THE DEADLY STREETS
Slippage
The Voice from the Edge
Over the edge
Dangerous Visions Tr
Marvel Masterworks Vol. 7
Troublemakers
Top of the volcano
All the Lies That Are My Life
Again Dangerous Visions Volume 2
A touch of infinity ; The man with nine lives
By Moonlight Only
Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
Ensamvark: Signed
Approaching Oblivion
Shatterday
Working Without a Net - Memoir in Stories
The Ellison Treatment
Vic and Blood
Strange Wine: Fifteen New Stories from the Nightside of the World
Over the Edge
The Sound of a Scythe
Dérapages
I have no mouth and I must scream : stories
Viziuni periculoase
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled
Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed
Vic and Blood Limited Edition
Troublemakers
Ellison Wonderland
Slippage
Again, Dangerous Visions: v. 2 (Pan science fiction)
Spider Kiss
Brain Movies
Harlan Ellison's watching
Angry Candy
Footsteps
The Top of the Volcano
Glass Teat
Li'l Harlan and his sidekick Carl the comet in danger land
Pulling a train
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World and Other Works
Deathbird Stories
The beast that shouted love at the heart of the world
Illustrated Harlan Ellison (Autographed Edition) (Science Fiction Anthology)
Ich muss schreien und habe keinen Mund
Korku'nun Butun Sesleri
From the Land of Fear
Brain movies
Other Glass Teat
Harlan Ellison Collection
Harlan Ellison's movie
Children of the Streets
The Voice from the Edge, Volume 1
Over the edge
Dangerous Visions
Fantastic Imaginings
A Boy and His Dog
Hulk
Deadly Streets
The Voice from the Edge: Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes (Library Edition)
Paingod
All the Lies That Are My Life
Mammoth Books Presents the Region Between
None of the above
Over the Edge
Vic and Blood
Harlan Ellison's Mortal Dreads
From the land of fear
Can & Can'tankerous
Again Dangerous Visions Book 1
Over the Edge
Strange Wine
Paingod and Other Delusions
Night and the enemy
Can & Can'tankerous
Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes
Earthman, Go Home!
Harlan Ellison's Movie
Harlan Ellison's Endlessly Watching
Rough Beasts
Strange Wine
Gentleman Junkie and other stories of the hung-up generation
Dangerous Visions 3
From the land of fear
Harlan Ellison's Watching
No tengo boca y debo gritar
Slippage
Night and the Enemy
City on the Edge of Forever
The Book of Ellison
Harlan Ellison Hornbook
Spider Kiss
Flop sweat
Ellison Wonderland [slipcased]
Harlan Ellison's Movie
Phoenix Without Ashes
Stalking the Nightmare
Deathbird Stories
Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed
Harlan Ellison's Watching
Shatterday
The Voice from the Edge, Volume 1
Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman
Edge in My Voice
Why Do You Call Me Ishmael When You Know My Name Is Bernie?
Hitler peignait des roses
Dangereuses visions, Tome 1
To co najlepsze
All the Sounds of Fear
Essential Ellison
Dangereuses visions, Tome 2
Al Williamson adventures
Dangerous visions
Illustrated Harlan Ellison
Phoenix Without Ashes
Phoenix Without Ashes
John Scalzi
John Scalzi (born 1969)

journalist, film critic, blogger

  • The Webb Schools, University of Chicago

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Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future
Human Division #7
Old Man’s War
Agent to the Stars
Redshirts
The Last Colony
The Android's Dream
Metatropolis
The Ghost Brigades
Zoe's Tale
The End of All Things
The Best of Subterranean
Fuzzy Nation
The Sagan Diary
Uncle John's Presents Book of the Dumb 2 (Uncle Johns Presents)
The God engines
Zoe’s Tale
Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future (Lock In Series Book 1)
Human Division
The Collapsing Empire (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)
Head On
Tor.com
Unlocked
The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies 1
Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against
The Rough Guide to the Universe 2
Fuzzy Nation
The Ghost Brigades
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency)
Last Emperox
Lock In
You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop
The human division
Zoe’s Tale
Metatropolis: Original Science Fiction Stories in a Shared Future
Love, Death + Robots : The Official Anthology
Fuzzy Nation
Lock In
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency Book 1)
El agente de las estrellas
Old Man's War
The Last Colony
THE KAIJU PRESERVATION SOCIETY
Head On: A Novel of the Near Future (Lock In Book 2)
Old Man's War Series: (Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony, Zoe's Tale, The Human Division, The End of All Things)
Kaiju Preservation Society
Head on
The Last Colony (The Old Man's War series)
The Rough Guide to The Universe (Rough Guide Science/Phenomena)
The Kaiju Preservation Society
Head On
The Consuming Fire
Old Man's War
The Rough Guide to the Universe
Old Man's War
The collapsing empire
The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency)
Uncle John's presents Book of the dumb
Lock In
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded
Old Mans War
Zoé
The Consuming Fire
Metatropolis: Original Science Fiction Stories in a Shared Future
Lock In (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic)
Old Man's War Boxed Set I: Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony
The Ghost Brigades
Collapsing Empire
Questions for a Soldier
Old Man's War
Redshirts
Brigazile fantoma - Vol 2 Seria razboiul batranilor
Consuming Fire
La historia de ZoA
Human Division #9
Las Brigadas Fantasma
Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies
Subterranean
Kaiju Preservation Society Sneak Peek
Judge Sn Goes Golfing
Human Division #4
A Ultima Colonia (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Human Division #2
Human Division #3
Uncle John's Presents Book of the Dumb
Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi
Zoe's tale
Zoe'nin Oykusu
B-Team, The
End of All Things #3 : Can Long Endure
Head on - Signed / Autographed Copy
Human Division #12
The consuming fire
Imparatorlugun Cöküsü
Interdependency Boxed Set
Le Vieil Homme et la guerre
Human Division #8
The Consuming Fire
24 Frames into the Future
The last Emperox
Collapsing Empire
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded
Las Brigadas Fantasma nº 02/06
Kirmizi Uniformalilar
Guerra do Velho
A Guerra é Para os Velhos
After the Coup
The God Engines
Zoe's Tale
Android's Dream
Human Division #11
End of All Things #1 : the Life of the Mind
Hayalet Tugay
Miniatures
Las Brigadas Fantasma
The Dispatcher
Questions for a Soldier
The Last Emperox
La Derniere colonie (Le Vieil homme et la guerre - Livre 3) (French Edition)
End of All Things #4 : to Stand or Fall
Yasli Adamin Savasi
Agent to the Stars
Human Division #5
Verrat - Das Imperium der Ströme 2
Sagan Diary, The
Fuzzy Nation
Agent to the Stars
End of All Things #2 : This Hollow Union
The dispatcher
Dispatcher, The
Kollaps - Das Imperium der Ströme 1
Human Division #10
The Last Emperox
Les enfermés une histoire orale du syndrome d'Haden
Les brigades fantômes
Das Syndrom: Roman
A Very Scalzi Christmas
Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One : the Dead City : Prologue Bk. 1
Ghost Brigades
Son Koloni
The Last Colony
Human Division #1
Die letzte Kolonie
El visitante inesperado
Human Division #13
Die letzte Einheit
最後の星戦 老人と宇宙3
Forever War
Sendrom
El sue�o del androide
Human Division #6
Don't live for your obituary
Lock in Series
The President's Brain is Missing: A Tor.Com Original
Android's Dream, The
Razboiul batranilor - Vol 1 seria razboiul batranilor
Encarcerados
As Brigadas Fantasma
Galaktische Mission
Lock In
Metatropolis
Zoe's Tale
The Last Colony
The Dispatcher
The Kaiju Preservation Society
Fuzzy Nation
La Vieja Guardia nº 06/06 El final de todas las cosas
The Sagan Diary [SAGAN DIARY -OS]
Head On: A Novel of the Near Future (Lock in)
Old Man's War Boxed Set I
Uncle John's Presents Book of the Dumb 2
Murder by Other Means
Agent to the Stars
The Collapsing Empire
Old Man's War
Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi
Zwischen den Sternen
Geisterbrigaden
A Guerra do Velho
Le Brigate Fantasma
Xing jian qiu sheng ri zhi
˜Dasœ Imperium der Ströme
Your hate mail will be graded
Denise Jones, agente superhéroïque
Brigadot ha-refaʼim
מלחמת האדם הזקן
Tim Lucas
Tim Lucas (born 1956)

journalist, film critic, composer

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The book of Renfield
Throat sprockets
Throat Sprockets: A Novel of Erotic Obsession
Videodrome
The Video Watchdog Book
We Are The Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale
Mario Bava
Kim Newman
Kim Newman (born 1959)

journalist, film critic, playwright

  • University of Sussex

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Gaslight Arcanum
The Quorum
The bloody Red Baron
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror - Eleventh Annual Collection
Jago
Lovecraft's Monsters
Anno Dracula
Horror 100 Best Books
Nightmare Movies
Dracula in Istanbul
Shadows over Innsmouth
Horror
The Mammoth Book of the Mummy
Der Agnostische Saal 1
Best New Horror 4 (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror)
Dracula Cha Cha Cha
Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories
Unforgivable Stories
In dreams
Witchfinder Volume 3 The Mysteries of Unland
Bad Dreams
Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s
Angels of Music
The BFI companion to horror
Horror
Horror!
Horror
Horror
Science fiction/horror
English Ghost Story
Horror
Definitive Guide to Horror Movies
Horror
Night Visions 11
The night mayor
Back in the USSA
Life's lottery
A book of wizards
Cat people
Seven stars
Best New Horror #30 [Trade Paperback]
The vaccinator
Apocalypse movies
Best New Horror #26
Doctor Who
Anno Dracula
Cat People 2nd Rev Ed
The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School
Famous Monsters
Anno Dracula - 1895
25th Anniversay Edition BEST NEW HORROR #1 [Trade Paperback] Edited by Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell
The Original Dr. Shade and Other Stories
Anno-Dracula
Dead Travel Fast
The Man from the Diogenes Club
The Man From the Diogenes Club
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine
Quatermass and the Pit (BFI Film Classics)
Time and Relative
Wild West movies, or, How the West was found, won, lost, lied about, filmed, and forgotten
Doctor Who The Episode Guide
Seven Stars
Johnny Alucard
Cell and Other Transmorphic Tales
Anno Dracula 36 Dump (P)
We Are The Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale
Anno Dracula - Johnny Alucard
Life's lottery
The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club
Ghastly Beyond Belief
The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School
Anno Dracula
CAZADOR DE BRUJAS 3
Bloody Red Baron / Jago 33 Mix
Bare Bones #7
Something More Than Night
Silver Nails
Tales of the Shadowmen 4
Anno Dracula - One Thousand Monsters
An English ghost story
Horror
Anno Dracula
The Hound of the D'Urbervilles
Science Fiction / Horror
THE SECOND EMPIRE MOVIE MISCELLANY
La era de Drácula
The Boughs Withered
Mysteries of the Diogenes Club
Genevieve Undead
Time and Relative
English Ghost Story, An
El Año de Dracula
Hollywood Blues (Folio Science Fiction) (English and French Edition)
Beasts in Velvet
The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School
Andy Warhol's Dracula
Profesör Moriarty 2-Öldürülmesi Gereken Hikaye
Secrets of the Drearcliff Grange School, The
Anno Dracula Signed 30th Anniversary Edition
Dracula Gunlukleri
Doctor Who (BFI TV Classics)
Vampire Genevieve
Quatermass and the Pit
The second Empire movie miscellany
Seminal Movies
Profesör Moriarty
FrightFest Guide to Vampire Movies
Man from the Diogenes Club, The
Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes
Anno Dracula 1999
Where the Bodies Are Buried Limited Edition S
Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School
Anne Billson
Anne Billson (born 1954)

journalist, film critic

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
MY NAME IS MICHAEL CAINE
Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel (1952-2022)

essayist, literary critic, film critic

  • University of Sheffield, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Eight months on Ghazzah Street
Bring Up the Bodies
Wolf Hall
The Mirror and the Light
Beyond Black
Vacant possession
A Change of Climate
Giving Up the Ghost
A Place of Greater Safety
An Experiment in Love
Every day is Mother's Day
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
The Giant O'Brien
Fludd
One Hundred And One
Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies - The Stage Adaptation
Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies
Mantel Pieces
Wolf Hall (adaptation)
Wolf Hall Trilogy (Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies / The Mirror & the Light)
Learning to talk
Memoir of My Former Self
Bring Up the Bodies [adaptation]
Matchbook Classics Box Set
Xwolf Hall Pb
Granta #4
Het boek Henry
Wolf Hall Trilogy 3 Books Collection Set By Hilary Mantel
Learning to Talk
Een veiliger oord 1
Comma
Wolf Hall Picture Book
Science of Flight
Curved Is the Line of Beauty
Woman Who Died of Robespierre
Révolution, Tome 1
Third Floor Rising
Ink in the Blood
King Billy Is a Gentleman
Vacant Possession
Three-Book Edition
Hilary Mantel Collection
School of English
How Shall I Know You?
Mens vs. natuur / Diane Cook ; De moord op Margaret Thatcher / Hilary Mantel
How Shall I Know You?
Complete Stranger
Holbein's Sir Thomas More
Talar-e gorg
John Kenneth Muir
John Kenneth Muir (born 1969)

journalist, film critic, literary critic

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The unseen force
Horror Films of the 1970s
Wes Craven
Terror television
Horror films of the 1980s
Horror films of the 1990s
Horror Films of the 1980s
The Films of John Carpenter
Exploring Space
An askew view
The encyclopedia of superheroes on film and television
Best in show
Singing a new tune
A Critical History of Doctor Who on Television
The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia
An Analytical Guide to Television's Battlestar Galactica
An analytical guide to television's One step beyond, 1959-1961
Eaten alive at a chainsaw massacre
A History and Critical Analysis of Blakes 7, the 1978-1981 British Television Space Adventure
Mercy in Her Eyes
Space 1999
Behind the Screen
An askew view 2
This is Spinal Tap
TV Year 2006-2007
TV Year: Volume 1
Analytical Guide to Television's One Step Beyond, 1959-1961
Horror Films of the 1970s, Volume 1
Horror Films of the 1970s, Volume 2
Purple rain
Gretchen Felker-Martin
Gretchen Felker-Martin (born 1986)

journalist, film critic

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