Prayers to Broken Stones

Prayers to Broken Stones is a short story anthology by the American author Dan Simmons. It includes 13 of his earlier works, along with an introduction by Harlan Ellison in which the latter relates how he "discovered" Dan Simmons at the Colorado Mountain College's "Writers' Conference in the Rockies" in 1981. The title is a borrowed line from T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men". Contents include: The River Styx Runs Upstream; Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams; Vanni Fucci is Alive and Well and Living in Hell; Vexed to Nightmare by a Rocking Cradle; Remembering Siri; Metastasis; The Offering; E-Ticket to 'Namland; Iverson's Pits; Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites; The Death of the Centaur; Two Minutes Forty-five Seconds; Carrion Comfort"