Shatterday (book)

This article is about the book by Harlan Ellison. For The New Twilight Zone episode based on its title story, see Shatterday.

Shatterday
First edition
Author	Harlan Ellison
Cover artist	Leo and Diane Dillon
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Short stories
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Publication date	1980
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	332 pp
ISBN	0-395-28587-9

Shatterday is a collection of short stories by author Harlan Ellison. In the introduction, Ellison states that the stories reflect an underlying theme of fear of human frailty and ugliness. His goal is to shock his readers into seeing that this fear unifies all people. Each story has an introduction, ranging from a single sentence to several pages long.

Some of Ellison's most well known stories are included in Shatterday. "Jeffty Is Five" won both a Nebula Award and a Hugo Award. It was also voted in a 1999 online poll of Locus readers to be the best short story of all time. "All the Lies that Are My Life" had been previously published the same year as a novella. The title story was made into the first episode of the 1985 revival of The Twilight Zone. Other stories have been reprinted in omnibus collections such as The Essential Ellison: a 35-Year Retrospective and Dreams With Sharp Teeth.

Introduction: Mortal Dreads
Jeffty Is Five
How's the Night Life on Cissalda?
Flop Sweat
Would You Do it For a Penny? (written in collaboration with Haskell Barkin)
The Man Who Was Heavily Into Revenge
Shoppe Keeper
All the Lies That Are My Life
Django
Count the Clock That Tells the Time
In the Fourth Year of the War
Alive and Well on a Friendless Voyage
All the Birds Come Home to Roost
Opium
The Other Eye of Polyphemus
The Executioner of the Malformed Children
Shatterday

Harlan Ellison

Novels & novellas	Web of the City Spider Kiss A Boy and His Dog

Short story collections	The Deadly Streets Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation Ellison Wonderland Paingod and Other Delusions I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World Alone Against Tomorrow Approaching Oblivion Deathbird Stories No Doors, No Windows Strange Wine Shatterday Stalking the Nightmare Angry Candy Slippage

Short stories	Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W The Beast that Shouted Love at The Heart of the World The Deathbird The Diagnosis of Dr. D'arqueAngel The Discarded The Dragon on the Bookshelf From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet Grail How's the Night Life on Cissalda? I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Jeffty Is Five The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman Shattered Like a Glass Goblin Soldier From Tomorrow The Whimper of Whipped Dogs Paladin of the Lost Hour

Collaborations	Phoenix Without Ashes Mind Fields

Television work	"Soldier" "Demon with a Glass Hand" "The City on the Edge of Forever" "Paladin of the Lost Hour" "Gramma" "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich"

Adaptations	I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream "The Human Operators" "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" "Shatterday" A Boy and His Dog (film) "Djinn, No Chaser"

Anthologies edited	Dangerous Visions Again, Dangerous Visions Medea: Harlan's World

Non-fiction	Memos from Purgatory The Glass Teat & The Other Glass Teat Harlan Ellison's Watching The Harlan Ellison Hornbook

Shatterday (book)

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