Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation

The original 50 cent paperback edition of this book now goes for $100 in rare book auctions. Why? Because it contains 25 of the best, hardest-to-find stories of the writer the Washington Post calls "one of the great living American short story writers," the unpredictable Harlan Ellison.
Bold and uncompromising, Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-up Generation is a watershed moment in Harlan Ellison’s early writing career. Rather than dealing in speculative fiction, these twenty-five short stories directly tackle issues of discrimination, injustice, bigotry, and oppression by the police. Pulling from his own experience, Ellison paints vivid portraits of the helpless and downtrodden, blazing forth with the kind of unblinking honesty that would define his career.
Contents
Foreword (Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation) • (1961) • essay by Frank M. Robinson
Introduction: The Children of Nights • (1975) • essay
Final Shtick • (1960) • short story
Gentleman Junkie • (1961) • short story
May We Also Speak? • (1961) • essay
Daniel White for the Greater Good • (1961) • short story
Lady Bug, Lady Bug • (1961) • short story
Free with This Box! • (1958) • short story
There's One on Every Campus • (1959) • short story
At the Mountains of Blindness • (1961) • short story
This Is Jackie Spinning • (1959) • short story
No Game for Children • non-genre • (1959) • short story
The Late, Great Arnie Draper • (1961) • short story
High Dice • (1961) • short story
Enter the Fanatic, Stage Center • (1961) • short story
Someone Is Hungrier • (1960) • short story
Memory of a Muted Trumpet • non-genre • (1960) • short story
Turnpike • (1961) • short story
Sally in Our Alley • (1959) • short story
The Silence of Infidelity • non-genre • (1957) • short story
Have Coolth • (1959) • short story
RFD #2 • (1957) • short story by Harlan Ellison and Henry Slesar
No Fourth Commandment • (1956) • short story
The Night of Delicate Terrors • (1961) • short story