You can go through Nat Segaloff’s book and find lots of Harlan Ellison stories, some of them your favorites (including the dead-gopher story, with confirmation of its veracity). Otherwise, how did Harlan avoid a charge for murder? We certainly never heard anything about that. He was apparently bothered that people went on believing that he did for years, but surely the less reality-challenged among us always doubted it.
No, he never threw a fan down an elevator shaft. They could talk about Harlan, what he did, or what people said he did. If two science fiction fans got together, complete strangers, they didn’t have to make small talk about the weather or even the latest Hugo-winning novel (which one of them might not have read).
There was a time when the Harlan Ellison Story was the basic currency of conversation in fandom. Those of that certain age remember when a “Harlan Ellison Story” referred not to a work of fiction written by Harlan Ellison but a story about him, told either by Harlan himself in one of his celebrated public lectures or by fans among themselves.
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