I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Ellison Harlan

Author:Ellison, Harlan [Ellison, Harlan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-04-28T16:00:00+00:00

Now the book starts getting into the nitty–gritty. This is, I think, one of the best stories I’ve ever written. It is certainly one of the most personally important to me. It saved my sanity. It is a fantasy, of sorts, but a special kind, It is a terror of the mind. In several senses of the phrase. First, because it deals with the nightshade terrain within the thoughts. And second, because the thoughts were mine. This story grew out of a period of emotional stress after the breakup of my second marriage. I was legally separated, living alone in Los Angeles, finding it difficult to get work, and trying to run away from my own inability to cope by the senseless expedient of screwing every woman I could get my hands on. Then I began having a series of dreams; they continued for several months until, in mindless terror, I fled to the typewriter and wrote this story. When I completed it, the dreams were gone, never again to recur. There is much to be said for self–therapy. It may even be instrumental in helping someone nearing The Edge to get straight once more, to rid him of, say, a

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