Spider KiSS

Spider KiSSOriginally published in 1961 as Rockabilly, this is the novel’s first appearance as a single volume in more than twenty years.

He claims he’s not a fan of rock-and-roll, but somehow Harlan Ellison’s seminal novel based on the career of Jerry Lee Lewis ended up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. One of the first—and still one of the best—dissections of the wildly destructive rock-and-roll lifestyle, Spider Kiss isn’t about giant cockroaches that attack Detroit or space invaders that smell like chicken soup. Instead, it’s the story of Luther Sellers, a nice kid from Louisville with a voice like an angel who’s renamed Stag Preston by a ruthless promoter. Preston’s meteoric rise on the music scene is matched only by the rise in his enormous appetites—and not just for home cooking—and soon the invisible monkey named Success is riding him straight to hell. This raucous early novel reinforces Ellison’s reputation as one of America’s most dynamic writers.

ISBN 10: 1-59582-058-2ISBN 13: 978-1-59582-058-7Price: $12.95 (Higher in Canada)Publisher: M PressWriter: Harlan EllisonSize: 5 x 8

Page count: 275 ppFormat: Trade paperRights: WorldwideAuthor residence: Los AngelesGenre: Fiction/LiteraturePublication date: November 2006

AuTHoR BIoHarlan Ellison’s storied career includes four Writers Guild of America awards, two Edgars, three Nebulas, and eight Hugos. Ellison describes himself as “probably the most contentious person now walking the earth.” He lives in Los Angeles.

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ALSo AvAILABLE:Mind Fields (Morpheus International, 2006), $29.95, ISBN 1-883398-66-5Dangerous Visions (I Books, 2005), $14.95, ISBN 1-59687-020-6Strange Wine (I Books, 2004), $13.95, ISBN 1-59687-070-2

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SPIDER KISS by Harlan Ellison® copyright © 1961, 1975, 1982 by Harlan Ellison. Renewed, © 1989, 2003 by The Kilimanjaro Corpo-

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