Strange Wine
# Strange Wine

Strange Wine is a 1978 short story collection by American writer Harlan Ellison.

## Contents

The book contains the following stories (as well as Ellison's own introduction for each tale):

* "Introduction: Revealed at Last! What Killed the Dinosaurs! And You Don't Look So Terrific Yourself"
* "Croatoan"
* "Working With the Little People"
* "Killing Bernstein"
* "Mom"
* "In Fear of K"
* "Hitler Painted Roses"
* "The Wine Has Been Left Open Too Long and the Memory Has Gone Flat"
* "From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet"
* "Lonely Women are the Vessels of Time"
* "Emissary from Hamelin"
* "The New York Review of Bird"
* "Seeing"
* "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
* "Strange Wine"
* "The Diagnosis of Dr. D'arqueAngel"

## Reception

Ellison wrote "Strange Wine" while sitting in the window of Westwood-area science fiction bookstore, A Change of Hobbit.

Stephen King considered this one of the best horror fiction books published between 1950 and 1980 in his 1981 non-fiction book about the horror genre, Danse Macabre, specifically reviewing the stories "Croatoan", "Hitler Painted Roses", "Lonely Women are the Vessels of Time", "Emissary from Hamelin" and "From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet".

