The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World: Stories

✍ Scribed by Harlan Ellison

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 195 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1497604893

✦ Synopsis

It crouches near the center of creation There is no night where it waits Only the riddle of which terrible dream will set it loose It beheaded mercy to take possession of that place It feasts on darkness from the minds of men No one has ever seen its eyeless face When it sleeps we know a few moments of peace But when it breathes again we go down in fire and mate with jackals It knows our fear It has our number It waited for our coming and it will abide long after we have become congealed smoke It has never heard music and shows its fangs when we panic It is the beast of our savage past hungering today and waiting patiently for the mortal meal of all our golden tomorrows It lies waiting This fantastic short story collection features two of Ellison s most famous the Nebula Award winner A Boy and His Dog and the Hugo Award winning short story that lends the collection its title These and the entire book will knock you off your feet Harlan Ellison has been called one of the great living American short story writers by the Washington Post In a career spanning more than fifty years he has won more awards than any other living fantasist Ellison has written or edited seventy four books more than seventeen hundred stories essays articles and newspaper columns two dozen teleplays and one dozen motion pictures He has won the Hugo Award eight and a half times shared once the Nebula Award three times the Bram Stoker Award presented by the Horror Writers Association five times including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996 the Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers of America twice the Georges Melies Fantasy Film Award twice two Audie Awards for the best in audio recordings and he was awarded the Silver Pen for Journalism by PEN the international writers union He was presented with the first Living Legend Award by the International Horror Critics at the 1995 World Horror Convention Ellison is the only author in Hollyw

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