Angry Candy is a 1988 collection of short stories

Short Stories

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 by Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison

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 that is loosely organized around the theme of death. The title comes the last line of the poem "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls" by E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

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, "...the/ moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy."

The collection contains the short story "Eidolons" which won the 1989 Locus

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poll award for best short story. It also contains the novelette "Paladin of the Lost Hour

Paladin of the Lost Hour

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", which won a Hugo award

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 for best novelette and was later converted by Ellison into an episode of the television series The New Twilight Zone

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. Angry Candy was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award

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 and won a World Fantasy award

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 for best collection of short stories.

Contents

• Introduction: The Wind Took Your Answer Away
• Paladin of the Lost Hour
  Paladin of the Lost Hour
  "Paladin of the Lost Hour" is the second segment of the seventh episode from the first season of the television series The New Twilight Zone.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• 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