Shatterday is a collection of short stories by author Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison

Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...

. In the introduction, Ellison states that the stories reflect an underlying theme of fear of human frailty and ugliness. His goal is to shock his readers into seeing that this fear unifies all people. Each story has an introduction, ranging from a single sentence to several pages long.

Some of Ellison's most well known stories are included in Shatterday. "Jeffty Is Five

Jeffty Is Five

"Jeffty Is Five" is a fantasy short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1977, then was included in his short story collection Shatterday three years later...

" won both a Nebula Award

Nebula Award

The Nebula Award is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year...

 and a Hugo Award

Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...

. It was also voted in a 1999 online poll of Locus

Locus (magazine)

Locus, subtitled "The Magazine Of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field", is published monthly in Oakland, California. It reports on the science fiction and fantasy publishing field, including comprehensive listings of all new books published in the genre. It is considered the news organ and trade...

readers to be the best short story of all time. "All the Lies that Are My Life" had been previously published the same year as a novella. The title story was made into the first episode

Shatterday

"Shatterday" is the first segment of the first episode of the first season of the television series The New Twilight Zone.-Opening narration:-Plot:Day 1: Someday...

 of the 1985 revival of The Twilight Zone. Other stories have been reprinted in omnibus collections such as The Essential Ellison: a 35-Year Retrospective and Dreams With Sharp Teeth.

Contents

• Introduction: Mortal Dreads
• Jeffty Is Five
  Jeffty Is Five
  "Jeffty Is Five" is a fantasy short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1977, then was included in his short story collection Shatterday three years later...
  
  
• How's The Night Life on Cissalda?
• Flop Sweat
• Would You Do it For a Penny? (written in collaboration with Haskell Barkin)
• The Man Who Was Heavily Into Revenge
• Shoppe Keeper
• All the Lies That Are My Life
• Django
• Count the Clock That Tells the Time
• In the Fourth Year of the War
• Alive and Well on a Friendless Voyage
• All the Birds Come Home to Roost
• Opium
• The Other Eye of Polyphemus
• The Executioner of the Malformed Children
• Shatterday