Stalking the Nightmare

Stalking the Nightmare

First edition
Author	Harlan Ellison
Cover artist	Jane Mackenzie
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	short stories
Publisher	Phantasia Press
Publication date	1982
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	332
ISBN	0-932096-16-6
OCLC	8825918
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 19
LC Class	PS3555.L62 S7 1982

Stalking the Nightmare is a 1982 collection of short stories and nonfiction pieces by Harlan Ellison. The short stories are interspersed with "Scenes from the Real World" sections, which are essays on a variety of topics. Although most of the stories had not previously appeared in any of Ellison's books, four of them were taken from his out of print 1970 collection Over the Edge.

The story "Djinn, No Chaser" was later adapted by Haskell Barkin into an episode of the 1980s television series Tales from the Darkside with the same title.

Contents

• Foreword by Stephen King
• "Introduction: Quiet Lies the Locust Tells"
• "Grail"
• "The Outpost Undiscovered By Tourists"
• "Blank..."
• Scenes From the Real World: I - The 3 Most Important Things In Life
• "Visionary" (written with Joe L. Hensley)
• "Djinn, No Chaser"
• "Invasion Footnote"
• Scenes From the Real World: II - Saturn, November 11
• "Night of Black Glass"
• "Final Trophy"
• "!!!The!!Teddy!Crazy!!Show!!!"
• "The Cheese Stands Alone"
• Scenes From The Real World: III - "Somehow", "I Don't Think We're In Kansas", "Toto"
• "Transcending Destiny"
• "The Hour That Stretches"
• "The Day I Died"
• 3 Tales From the Mountains of Madness: "Tracking Level", "Tiny Ally", "The Goddess in the Ice"
• Scenes From The Real World: IV - Gopher In the Gilly