A review by celeste_ilene
Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison

5.0

Take heed of Harlan Ellison's warning. These stories are intense. When I read them, it was usually one story a day, maybe another later on in the day, and that was really all I could do. How do you go on when you've just read a story about gargoyles coming alive and killing everyone in New York City? Very descriptively, I might add. But it's not just the violence, although there's plenty of that in most of the stories. It is the gods. You'll just never see things the same way again. And you might just see eyes in a slot machine next time you're at the casino. Favorite stories were: The Whimper of Whipped Dogs, On the Downhill Side, The Face of Helene Bournouw, Ernest and the Machine God and The Deathbird. Some stories are better than others - but they are all pretty excellent, and they are stories I will never forget.