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With this, his best-selling and most critically acclaimed collection ever, Ellison celebrates four decades of brilliant, outrageous writing. The award-winning novella "Mefisto in Onyx" is the centerpiece of an irreverent and wildly imaginative book that the San Diego Union-Tribune called "electrifying...Ellison is back, as unsettling as ever." The fault in my lines The man who rowed Christopher Columbus ashore Anywhere but here, with anybody but you Crazy as a soup sandwich Darkness upon the face of the deep The pale silver dollar of the moon pays its way and makes change The lingering scent of woodsmoke The museum on Cyclops Avenue Go toward the light Mefisto in onyx Where I shall dwell in the next world Chatting with Anubis The few, the proud Sensible city The dragon on the bookshelf / (written in collaboration with Robert Silverberg) Keyboard Jane Doe #112 The dreams a nightmare dreams Pulling hard time Scartaris, June 28th She's a young thing and cannot leave her mother Midnight in the sunken cathedral. Twenty-one stories on the fantastic and the realistic. The story, Mefisto in Onyx, is a mind reader's interview with a serial killer on Death Row, while in Go Toward the Light, a time traveller rediscovers his faith after a trip back in time to the Holy Land Mingling ancient history, modern morality, and the surreal, a collection of stories includes an award-winning novella about a Black mind reader who pays a terrifying call on a white serial killer on Alabama's death row