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The Deadly Streets
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Terrifying tales of teenage gangs and life on the mean streets from the multiple award-winning author of A Boy and His Dog.
Remember Charles Bronson stalking the streets of New York blowing holes in muggers in Death Wish? Remember Glenn Ford standing off the vicious juvenile delinquents in Blackboard Jungle? Well, it is more than fifty years and two different worlds from 1955 to now. And something the author of these stories knows that you are scared to admit is that reality and fantasy have flip‑flopped. They have switched places. The stories that scare you today are the ones about rapists and thugs, psychos who will carve you for a dollar and hypes who will bust your head to get fixed. Glenn Ford’s world was yesterday, and Bronson’s is today. And in the stalking midnight of this book, one of America’s top writers, Harlan Ellison, invades the shadows of both!
Remember Charles Bronson stalking the streets of New York blowing holes in muggers in Death Wish? Remember Glenn Ford standing off the vicious juvenile delinquents in Blackboard Jungle? Well, it is more than fifty years and two different worlds from 1955 to now. And something the author of these stories knows that you are scared to admit is that reality and fantasy have flip‑flopped. They have switched places. The stories that scare you today are the ones about rapists and thugs, psychos who will carve you for a dollar and hypes who will bust your head to get fixed. Glenn Ford’s world was yesterday, and Bronson’s is today. And in the stalking midnight of this book, one of America’s top writers, Harlan Ellison, invades the shadows of both!
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A set of very minor 1950s stories from Ellison, published in various less than stellar detective magazines, and even in a Men's magazine, some under pseudonyms, and a couple co-written with Robert Silverberg and Henry Slesar. The subject matter is almost invariably doomed young gang members, with a few welcome variations. While this isn't a collection to read one story after another, it is enjoyable. It is a lot more straightforward than the science fiction that made Ellison a household name (at least among science fiction writers.) This book is the work of a professional writer, churning out story after story as quickly as he could to make a living. It is a mark of Ellison's ability that despite their simplicity, there is hardly a false note or a bad sentence in the collection. Ellison's new introduction makes more of the stories than they are - but it is quite interesting. Written in 1983 when New York City was much more crime-ridden than in the era (1958) when The Deadly Streets was first published, it is an angry, overdone exercise in paranoia and catharsis.