CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word by Harlan Ellison (2014, Trade Paperback)

About this product

Product Information

You will not find "'Repent, Harlequin ' Said the Ticktockman" in this book. Nor will you find "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream," "A Boy and His Dog," or "The Deathbird," or any of Harlan Ellison's myriad masterpieces. What will you find herein? The front cover might give you a nasty clue: stories of crime and amorality, of sex and violence. What the cover might not have conveyed was that the award-winning tales enumerated above were forged in an imagination stoked for the preceding decade by the need to trade tales to the pulps and slick men's magazine to make the rent ($7 a week). You hold in your hands the work of a writer painfully crawling forward, tale by tale, honing his craft in an industry where every word counted...of course, you knew all that; you got it from the title.AGAIN, HONORABLE WHOREDOM AT A PENNY A WORD kicks off with "Typewriters & Pipe Lighters," a collection of anecdotes from Ellison recalling the writing of these stories, which span his first full year as a professional writer (1956) to 1968, when he still dashed off the occasional thriller while making his name with the iconic fantasies listed above.A further essay-"Naked Deranged Psycho Thrill-Demon Or, Bitch-Slut Gun-Crazy Homicidal Rat" (1996)-discusses pulp editor W.W. Scott's propensity for re-titling Ellison's works for publication in such publications as Guilty and Trapped.Most of the stories are straight-forward thrillers never-before collected in an Ellison anthology: "Her Name Was Death" (1957), "Thirty Miles to Death Junction" (1957), "The Teaser with a Knife" (1967), "Don't Mind the Maid" (1957), "The Girl in the Red Room" (1964), "Hunchback" (1957), "Goodbye, Eadie" (1956), "The Clean Break" (1956), "Boss of the Big House"(1957), "Drive a Girl to Kill" (1957), "Hell's Holocaust" (1957), "Willie Just Won't Kick Off" (1968), "Mad Dog " (written with Henry Slesar, 1957), "The Women in the House" (1957), "Taxi Dancer"(1967)."The Music of Our Affair"(1963) features the author experimenting with style, to cacophonous effect."Find One Cuckaboo" (1960) is a never-before reprinted novelette originally included in the paperback anthology THE SAINT MYSTERY LIBRARY, No. 11."Clobber Me, Moogoo " (1956) and "McManus's Mental Mistress" (1968) exhibit a fantasy-tinged approach to stories of sex."Only Death Can Stop It" (1960) compelled Harlan to add a disclaimer to the table of the contents."The Final Push" (1957) is one of the author's three Westerns. While "Saddle Tramp" (collected in HONORABLE WHOREDOM AT A PENNY A WORD) was more tramp than saddle, this story has more in common with "The End of the Time of Leinard" in its evocation of a genre Ellison adores."Night on the Mug Beat" is a never-before published cop story, appearing herein for the first time.The main body of the collection closes with "The Steep Road to the Gutter" (1965), an overlooked masterpiece of early Ellisonia that the editor is overjoyed to expose to a wider audience.But wait, there's more In preparing AGAIN, HONORABLE WHOREDOM AT A PENNY A WORD for publication, the editor stumbled across a file headed A WOMAN NAMED MIDNIGHT. After confirming that "A Girl Named Poison" (found in the author's 2013 collection PULLING A TRAIN) hadn't changed her name upon reaching maturity, the editor brought the forty-page typescript for an unfinished novel-credited to "Ellis Daye" on the first page, and written while Ellison lived in the treehouse on Bushrod Lane-to its author. Harlan read the story but had no recollection of writing it, nor why it had never been completed and published, but nevertheless gave his blessing for it to make its debut herein.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Edgeworks Abbey
ISBN-10
0989525759
ISBN-13
9780989525756
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204319356

Product Key Features

Book Title
Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word
Author
Harlan Ellison
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Fiction

Additional Product Features

Target Audience
Trade

Best Selling in Books

See all

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in Books

The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies by Claude Davis (2018, Paperback)
4.8 out of 5 stars based on 384 product ratings
$55.99 New
$39.99 Used
Outlive Gifford Bil (2023,Paperback)
4.8 out of 5 stars based on 8 product ratings
$11.75 New
$8.99 Used
Sick Fux by Tillie Cole (2017, Trade Paperback)
4.5 out of 5 stars based on 2 product ratings
$19.85 New
---- Used
Trading in the Zone : Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline, and a Winning Attitude by Mark Douglas (2001, Hardcover)
4.9 out of 5 stars based on 26 product ratings
$11.99 New
---- Used
The Empyrean Ser.: Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (2023, Hardcover)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 3 product ratings
$14.98 New
$12.75 Used
Ugly's Electrical References, 2023 Edition by Charles R. Miller (2023, Spiral)
4.9 out of 5 stars based on 15 product ratings
$11.19 New
$9.95 Used
Forgiving What You Can't Forget : Discover How to Move on, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again by Lysa TerKeurst (2020, Hardcover)
4.9 out of 5 stars based on 24 product ratings
$9.91 New
$9.46 Used

Save on Books

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on Books

Tom Selleck SIGNED BOOK You Never Know A Memoir 1ST EDITION Hardcover In Hand
$50.00
Trending at $60.00
The Candlestick Course by Steve Nison (Paperback, English ) Free Shipping 📚
$9.97
Trending at $12.90
Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins ( Paperback ) - Sealed
$7.99
Trending at $11.91
Apocrypha, The Geneva Bible 1560 large Print: The Complete Texts Rejected from t
$19.97
Trending at $21.01
MIFEPRISTONE: Ultimate Guide To Using Mifepristone A Safe & Effective Option For
$10.99
Trending at $12.49
You Like It Darker : Stories by Stephen King (2024, Hardcover)
$19.95
Trending at $27.40

Shop by category

Again, Honorable Whoredom at a Penny a Word by Harlan Ellison (2014, Trade Paperback)

About this product

Product Information

Product Identifiers

Product Key Features

Additional Product Features

Best Selling in Books

The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies by Claude Davis (2018, Paperback)

Outlive Gifford Bil (2023,Paperback)

Sick Fux by Tillie Cole (2017, Trade Paperback)

Trading in the Zone : Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline, and a Winning Attitude by Mark Douglas (2001, Hardcover)

The Empyrean Ser.: Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (2023, Hardcover)

Ugly's Electrical References, 2023 Edition by Charles R. Miller (2023, Spiral)

Forgiving What You Can't Forget : Discover How to Move on, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again by Lysa TerKeurst (2020, Hardcover)

Save on Books

Tom Selleck SIGNED BOOK You Never Know A Memoir 1ST EDITION Hardcover In Hand

The Candlestick Course by Steve Nison (Paperback, English ) Free Shipping 📚

Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins ( Paperback ) - Sealed

Apocrypha, The Geneva Bible 1560 large Print: The Complete Texts Rejected from t

MIFEPRISTONE: Ultimate Guide To Using Mifepristone A Safe & Effective Option For

You Like It Darker : Stories by Stephen King (2024, Hardcover)

You may also like

Fiction Paperback Fiction & Harlan Coben Books

Trade Paperbacks

Trade Paperbacks Books

Trade Paperback Textbooks

Trade Paperbacks Books in English

Fiction Trade Paperbacks Books