title: Strange Wine
text: # 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".
  
  