Something Wicked This Way Comes

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Orion, Aug 29, 2013 - Fiction - 272 pages

It's the week before Hallowe'en, and Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois. The siren song of the calliope entices all with promises of youth regained and dreams fulfilled . . .

And as two boys trembling on the brink of manhood set out to explore the mysteries of the dark carnival's smoke, mazes and mirrors, they will also discover the true price of innermost wishes . . .

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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
Limited preview - 1999
Something Wicked this Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
Snippet view - 1983

About the author (2013)

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)
Ray Douglas Bradbury, an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction writer, wrote more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts and poems during his prolific career. Lauded as one of America's most elegant and poetic writers, acclaimed by many to be the inventor of dark fantasy, he won many major awards, including the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and being named a Nebula Grandmaster. Bradbury is perhaps best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for other science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951). He passed away in 2012, at the age of 91.

For more information see www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bradbury_ray

Bibliographic information

TitleSomething Wicked This Way Comes
AuthorRay Bradbury
PublisherOrion, 2013
ISBN0575087331, 9780575087330
Length272 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary
Fiction / Fantasy / General
Fiction / Gothic
  
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