"The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" is a 1968 science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1969.
The story was first published in the June 1968 edition of Galaxy Science Fiction, and was collected with other Ellison short stories as the first story in The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World in 1969. Subsequent publications have been in collections su...
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"The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" is a 1968 science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1969.
The story was first published in the June 1968 edition of Galaxy Science Fiction, and was collected with other Ellison short stories as the first story in The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World in 1969. Subsequent publications have been in collections such as Dark Stars, edited by Robert Silverberg, in 1969, The Hugo Winners: Volumes One and Two, edited by Isaac Asimov, in 1971, and as part of Ellison's own restrospective collection, Edgeworks 4, in 1997.
The story includes many related threads, starting with a man named Walter Sterog who goes on a killing spree after talking with a pest control man. In the next thread, an expedition discovers a new planet with a 37 foot tall, beatific statue on it. The statue has the face of Sterog. Next, a violent and insane seven-headed dragon is captured...
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