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The New York Review of Bird

Harlan Ellison

First published December 1975
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Originally published in a "considerably censored, altered and bowdlerized version" in Weird Heroes, Volume 2. The version in Strange Wine is its first appearance "in its complete form". (Quotations from the copyright page of Strange Wine.)
Comparision of the text (a number of lines per page) shows hardly any difference between the two. (WH)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1975 Cover Weird Heroes, Volume 2 Pyramid Books Anthology 38
June 1978 Cover Strange Wine: Fifteen New Stories from the Nightside of the World Harper & Row Collection 172
June 1979 Cover Strange Wine: Fifteen New Stories from the Nightside of the World Warner Books Collection 203
January 1984 Cover Strange Wine Warner Books Collection 203
October 2004 Cover Strange Wine ibooks Collection 172
August 2009 Cover Strange Wine e-reads.com Collection 162
March 2012 Cover Strange Wine Gateway / Orion Collection
April 2014 Cover Strange Wine Open Road Integrated Media Collection |172
June 2014 Cover Strange Wine Open Road Integrated Media Collection |172
March 2025 Cover Shatterday and Other Works Recorded Books Omnibus |2172