Angry Candy
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Angry Candy is a 1988 collection of short stories by Harlan Ellison that is loosely organized around the theme of death. It contains the short story "Eidolons" which won the 1989 Locus poll award for best short story.
Contents:
- Introduction: The Wind Took Your Answer Away
- Paladin of the Lost Hour
- Footsteps
- Escapegoat
- When Auld's Acquaintance Is Forgot
- Broken Glass
- On the Slab
- Prince Myshkin, and Hold the Relish
- The Region Between
- Laugh Track
- Eidolons
- Soft Monkey
- Stuffing
- With Virgil Oddum at the East Pole
- Quicktime
- The Avenger of Death
- Chained to the Fast Lane in the Red Queen's Race
- The Function of Dream Sleep
The title comes the last line of the poem "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls" by e. e. cummings, "...the/ moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy."