SOURCE: A review of Angry Candy, in Washington Post Book World, September 25, 1988, pp. 8, 13.

In the following review, the critic asserts that Angry Candy proves Ellison still has his famous “militantly eccentric insight.”

Harlan Ellison's new collection, Angry Candy, is as death-haunted as the other books under review. Indeed, the introduction to the collection, “The Wind Took Your Answer Away,” is a necrology in which Ellison expresses his grief and bitterness at the recent deaths of numerous colleagues and great figures within the milieu of imaginative literature. What follows proves that Ellison's fiction hasn't lost any of the edge, the anger, the militantly eccentric insight that has made him one of the most interesting short story writers in 20th-century American literature.

It is good to have a major new collection of short fiction from Ellison; much of what has appeared in the past few years has been in the...