Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed and Other Works - Harlan Ellison

Written by Harlan Ellison
Read by Luis Moreno
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

Includes two collections of non-fiction by Harlan Ellison:

Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed - A collection of twenty thought-provoking essays (introduced and edited by Marty Clark):

• You Don’t Know Me, I Don’t Know You • (1977)
• Stealing Tomorrow • (1974)
• Down the Rabbit-Hole to TV-Land • (1967)
• Revealed at Last! What Killed the Dinosaurs! And You Don’t Look So Terrific Yourself! • (1978)
• Epiphany • (1982)
• Rolling Dat Ole Debbil Electronic Stone • (1982)
• A Love Song to Jerry Falwell (aka Postscript to Season of the Witch by Jean Marie Stine [writing as Hank Stine]; Blood/Thoughts; Black/Thoughts; Dark/Thoughts; The Destruction of the Entire Universe and Other Happy Thoughts for a Sunday Morning) • (1968-1984)
• Science Fiction: Turning Reality Inside-Out • (1974)
• Defeating the Green Slime • (1976)
• How You Stupidly Blew Fifteen Million Dollars a Week, Avoided Having an Adenoid-Shaped Swimming Pool in Your Back Yard, Missed the Opportunity to Have a Mutually Destructive Love Affair with Clint Eastwood and/or Raquel Welch, and Otherwise Pissed Me off • (1978)
• Fear Not Your Enemies • (1981)
• Face-Down in Gloria Swanson’s Swimming Pool • (1978)
• From Alabamy, with Hate (aka March to Montgomery) • (1965)
• Leiber: A Few Too Few Words • (1979)
• Serita Rosenthal Ellison: A Eulogy • (1976)
• Centerpunching • (1969)
• Voe Doe Dee Oh Doe (A Silverberg Medley) • (1977)
• Robert Silverberg: An Appreciation • (1983)
• Cheap Thrills on the Road to Hell • (1982)
• True Love: Groping for the Holy Grail (aka How I Survived the Great Video Matchmaker) • (1978)

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An Edge in My Voice - At the beginning of the 1980s, Harlan Ellison agreed to do a regular column for the LA Weekly on the condition that they publish whatever he wrote, without revising it or suggesting rewrites. This collection collects what he wrote under those conditions. He writes in a conversational voice, but he is impassioned, persuasive, abusive and hilarious by turns.

April 22 2025
24 hrs and 45 mins