Bradbury, Ray

Summary: A strange carnival brings terror to the population of a small midwestern town. Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and mind, as has this one Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2001

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: Once upon a time people described Ray Bradbury as a particularly gifted writer of science fiction. Today he seems more like a magical realist, a small-town American cousin to Borges and Garcia Marquez. A writer whose vision of the world is so intense that the objects in it sometimes levitate or glow with otherworldly auras. Who but Bradbury could imagine the playroom in which children's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1990

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: He is an American treasure; a clear-eyed fantasist without peer; a literary icon who has created wonder for the better part of seven decades. He has a moon crater named after him and a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame. He has been honored with prizes galore. He has inspired generations of readers to dream, think, invent, believe, and fly. Collected between these covers are memories,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: In California in 1949, a young writer and a detective believe a number of deaths associated with an amusement park were murders. Suddenly the killer begins stalking them.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1999

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Bradbury, Ray

Contents: The Kilimanjaro device -- The terrible conflagration up at the place -- Tomorrow's child -- The women -- The inspired chicken motel -- Downwind from Gettysburg -- Yes, we'll gather at the river -- The cold wind and the warm -- Night call, collect -- The haunting of the new -- I sing the body electric! -- The tombling day -- Any friend of Nicholas Nickleby's a friend of mine -- Heavy-set -- The...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1998

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: In one authoritative volume, here are two landmark story collections by one of America's most beloved authors, plus 27 stellar, speculative, and strange tales from other collections, including 7 restored to print The author of over 400 short stories, Ray Bradbury was a master not only in the science fiction genre, for which he is best known, but also in speculative, horror, and dark fantasy....

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022

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Bradbury, Ray

Summary: Bradbury scholar and biographer Jonathan R. Eller offers the first sustained look at Ray Bradbury's life in letters from his late teens to his ninth decade. Bradbury's correspondence was far-reaching--he interacted with a rich cross section of 20th-century cultural figures, writers, film directors, editors, and others who simply wanted insights or encouragement from a writer who had enriched...

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Publisher / Publication Date: illustrations, portraits 2023

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