The Voice From the Edge is a series of audiobooks collecting short stories written and narrated by American author Harlan Ellison. The first two volumes were published by Fantastic Audio; they were republished by Blackstone Audio in 2011. The uploading of these audio books to a newsgroup on the internet led to a court case to decide the liability of a service provider according to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The fourth volume was published by Audible. Stories collected in these audio books include some of Ellison's best known works, from his earliest publications, from the 1950s, to his more recent, published in the early to late 2000s. Ellison as an audio actor/reader was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children twice and has won several Audie Awards. Reviews of these collections praise Ellison's skilled narration.

Volumes

The Voice From the Edge, Vol.1: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

Released in 1999. John DeNardo of Kirkus Reviews mentioned this album for "anyone who can read more than 10 books in a month" as a supplement to his list of "10 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books For January 2012". Ellison won a Bram Stoker Award for this collection.

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The Voice From the Edge, Vol.2: Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral

Released in 2001, it was reviewed by Kat Hooper of Fantasy Literature, who stated, "if there's anything that Harlan Ellison does better than write great stories, it's narrate them", although she warns that some of the stories, though thought-provoking, are unpleasant to hear. The stories were written between 1956 and 1995.

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The Voice From the Edge, Vol.3: Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes

Released in 2009, it was once again reviewed by Kat Hooper. She extols Ellison's storytelling skills, while warning that some of the stories are "gross". This volume was published by Audio Literature. Volume three is notable in that—apart from the new introductions or afterwords in each collection—it contains the first essay in these Ellison Audio book collections (Valerie: A True Memoir). It also contains a reading by another author, Robert Bloch, originally done for a vinyl record album released by the Harlan Ellison Record Collection, in the late 1970s. Bloch's story A Toy for Juliette, is included because the story on the next track is Ellison's continuation of the plot.

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The Voice From the Edge, Vol.4: The Deathbird and Other Stories

Published by Audible in 2011, it includes four prize winning stories, and, as in the earlier volumes, Ellison reads his own work. The print version of this collection won a British Science Fiction Award for short fiction.

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The Voice From the Edge, Vol.5: Shatterday & Other Stories

Published by Audible in 2011. This is the final volume in the series. Most of the stories are from Ellison's most experimental period in the 1960s and 1970s.

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