Writer of the Purple Rage is a collection of short works by American author Joe R. Lansdale, published in 1994.

It was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award in the "Fiction Collection" category.

The title is a play on the Philip José Farmer novella "Riders of the Purple Wage", and before that, the Zane Grey novel Riders of the Purple Sage.

[1][2] This is the only collection which includes the short stories "The Diaper", "Everybody Plays the Fool", "Love Doll: A Fable" and "The Man With Two Lives", as well as the play version of "By Bizarre Hands".

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