Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a happy ending? No matter what their taste, our Creative Short Stories series has the answer.We've taken some of the world's best stories from dark, musty anthologies and brought them into the light, giving them the individual attention they deserve. Each book in the series has been designed with today's young reader in mind. As the words come to life, students will develop a lasting appreciation for great literature.The humor of Mark Twain...the suspense of Edgar Allan Poe...the danger of Jack London...the sensitivity of Katherine Mansfield. Creative Short Stories has it all and will prove to be a welcome addition to any library. The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants.

ray Bradbury, The Undisputed Dean Of American Storytelling, Dips His Accomplished Pen Into The Cryptic Inkwell Of noir And Creates A Stylish And Slightly Fantastical Tale Of Mayhem And Murder Set Among The Shadows And The Murky Canals Of Venice, California, In The Early 1950s.toiling Away Amid The Looming Palm Trees And Decaying Bungalows, A Struggling Young Writer (who Bears A Resemblance To The Author) Spins Fantastic Stories From His Fertile Imagination Upon His Clacking Typewriter. Trying Not To Miss His Girlfriend (away Studying In Mexico), The Nameless Writer Steadily Crafts His Literary Effort—until Strange Things Begin Happening Around Him.starting With A Series Of Peculiar Phone Calls, The Writer Then Finds Clumps Of Seaweed On His Doorstep. But As The Incidents Escalate, His Friends Fall Victim To A Series Of Mysterious Accidents—some Of Them Fatal. Aided By Elmo Crumley, A Savvy, Street-smart Detective, And A Reclusive Actress Of Yesteryear With An Intense Hunger For Life, The Wordsmith Sets Out To Find The Connection Between The Bizarre Events, And In Doing So, Uncovers The Truth About His Own Creative Abilities.library Journaldedicated To Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, And Ross Macdonald, Bradbury's 1985 Novel Is A Paean To The Hard-boiled Mystery. The Plot Follows A Writer Who Joins Ranks With A Detective And An Actress To Get To The Bottom Of Some Strange Doings. Bradbury Is Always Worth Reading. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

The Tranquility Of Mars Is Disrupted By The Earthmen Who Have Come To Conquer Space, Colonize The Planet, And Escape A Doomed Earth. 8 Books (268 P. ; 20 Cm.) -- 1 Book (241 P. ; 18 Cm.) -- Content List -- Author Biography & List Of Additional Resources -- Discussion Questions -- Sign-up Sheet -- Book Kit Policy & Suggestions For Use Of Kit. Ray Bradbury. This Edition Of The Martian Chronicles Has Been Updated And Revised.--title Page Verso. First Published In Hardcover By Avon Books In 1997, Reprinted In Hardcover By William Morrow In 2006--title Page Verso.

On A Dismal Evening, An Unnamed Writer In Venice, California, Answers A Furious Pounding At His Beachfront Bungalow Door -- And Once Again Admits A Dangerous Icon Into His Life. Constance Rattigan, An Aging, Once-glamorous Hollywood Star, Stands Soaked And Shivering In His Foyer, Clutching Two Anonymously Delivered Books That Have Sent Her Running In Fear From Something She Dares Not Acknowledge: Twin Lists Of The Tinseltown Dead And Soon-to-be Dead . . . With Constance's Name Included Among Them. And, Just As Suddenly, She Vanishes Into The Stormy Night, Leaving The Narrator With Her Macabre Gifts And An Unshakable Determination To Get To The Root Of The Actress's Grand Terror. So Begins An Odyssey As Dark As It Is Wondrous, As The Writer Sets Off In A Broken-down Jalopy With His Irascible Sidekick, Crumley, To Sift Through The Ashes Of A Bygone Hollywood. But A World That Once Sparkled With Larger- Than-life Luminaries -- Dietrich, Valentino, Harlow -- Is Now A Graveyard Of Ghosts And Secrets. Each Twisted Road Our Heroes Travel Leads To Grim Shrines And Shattered Dreams -- A Remote Cabin Where History Is Preserved In Mountains Of Yellowed Newsprint; A Cathedral Where Sinners Hold Sway; A Forgotten Projection Booth Where The Past Lives Eternally On In An Endless Loop Of Cinematic Youth And Beauty. And Always The Road Turns Back To Lost Filmdom's Temple, A Fading Movie Palace Called Grauman's Chinese, And To The Murky Hidden Catacombs Beneath. Prepare Yourself For A Mystery As Enthralling As The Most Well-crafted Whodunit; A Satire As Keen As The Edge Of A Straight Razor, A Phantasmagoric Celebration Of A Lost World Built On Equal Parts Dream And Nightmare -- The Latest Fantastic Flight Of Glorious Imagination By Ray Bradbury, The One And Only.

The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury - a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin - visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness...the sight of gray dust selling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere...the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father's clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets. Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man is a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth, widely believed to be one of the Grandmaster's premier accomplishments: as exhilarating as interplanetary travel, as maddening as a walk in a million-year rain, and as comforting as simple, familiar rituals on the last night of the world.

Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls "the Undiscovered Country" of his imagination—that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where the stories you now hold were born. America's premier living author of short fiction, Bradbury has spent many lifetimes in this remarkable place—strolling through empty, shadow-washed fields at midnight; exploring long-forgotten rooms gathering dust behind doors bolted years ago to keep strangers locked out.. and secrets locked in. The nights are longer in this country. The cold hours of darkness move like autumn mists deeper and deeper toward winter. But the moonlight reveals great magic here—and a breathtaking vista.The October Country is many places: a picturesque Mexican village where death is a tourist attraction; a city beneath the city where drowned lovers are silently reunited; a carnival midway where a tiny man's most cherished fantasy can be fulfilled night after night. The October Country's inhabitants live, dream, work, die—and sometimes live again—discovering, often too late, the high price of citizenship. Here a glass jar can hold memories and nightmares; a woman's newborn child can plot murder; and a man's skeleton can war against him. Here there is no escaping the dark stranger who lives upstairs...or the reaper who wields the world. Each of these stories is a wonder, imagined by an acclaimed tale-teller writing from a place shadows. But there is astonishing beauty in these shadows, born from a prose that enchants and enthralls. Ray Bradbury's The October Country is a land of metaphors that can chill like a long-after-midnight wind...as they lift the reader high above a sleeping Earth on the strange wings of Uncle Einar.

"A fast-moving, eerie...tale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boys on the tail of a kite through time and space to search the past for their friend and the meaning of Halloween. After witnessing a funeral procession in ancient Egypt, cavemen discovering fire, Druid rites, the persecution of witches in the Dark Ages, and the gargoyles of Notre Dame, they catch up with the elusive Pipkin in the catacombs of Mexico, where each boy gives one year from the end of his life to save Pipkin's. Enhanced by appropriately haunting black-and-white drawings."—BooklistPublishers WeeklyWhen young Pipkin becomes ill and is whisked away into the mysterious darkness of the Halloween tree, his friends must race through space and time to save him. With a peculiar old man named Moundshroud to guide them, the kids encounter the many earlier manifestations of the holiday known as Halloween. The voice talent for this production matches well with the predominant characters of young boys, and Jerry Robbins plays Moundshroud with a good eccentric and maniacal tone. While there are sound effects, they are mostly limited to ambient vocals in the background and wind, never utilizing the more calm-fracturing accoutrements like slamming doors or dishes breaking. A wealth of music complements the story and gives the listener a sense of plot progression, although some of the singing feels a bit overdone. (Sept.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

From Ray Bradbury, The Recipient Of The National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal Comes A Magical Collection Of Short Fiction. ray Bradbury Is One Of The Most Celebrated Fiction Writers Of The 20th Century. He Is The Author Of Such Classics As fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, And Something Wicked This Way Comes. Bradbury Has Once Again Pulled Together A Stellar Group Of Stories Sure To Delight Readers Young And Old, Old And New. In one More For The Road We Are Treated To The Best This Talented Writer Has To Offer : The Eerie And Strange, Nostalgic And Bittersweet, Searching And Speculative. Here Are A Father's Regrets, A Lover's Last Embrace, A Child's Dreams Of The Future 栬l Delivered With The Trademark Bradbury Wit And Style. publishers Weeklyyou Do Not Build A Time Machine Unless You Know Where You Are Going.... But I Built My Time Machine, All Unknowingly, With No Destination In Mind, Explains A Bemused Time Traveler In Bradbury's Latest Collection. Bradbury, Who Has Taken Readers On So Many Marvelous Trips, Has A Similar Approach To Navigation. In This New Volume Of Stories (17 Of The 24 Have Never Been Published Before), He Maintains His Unflinching Dedication To The Magic Of Everyday Life. Relaxing Into His Favorite Themes Memory, Loneliness, Childhood, Love And Time He Is Not Afraid To Wax Sentimental, But The Sharp Edge Of His Prose Keeps The Tales From Cloying. Haunted Settings Are Common: The Ghost Town In Where All Is Emptiness There Is Room To Move; The Parisian Cemetery P Re Lachaise In Diane De For T; And The L.a. Streets Of 1939 In Tangerine, In Which Bradbury Tells The Story Of A Tragically Cool Man Who'd Rather Be Dead Than 30. The Writer Is At His Best When He Chronicles The Child Self He Has Never Lost Touch With. In Autumn Afternoon, Miss Elizabeth Simmons Cleans Out Her Attic And Discovers Calendars She Kept As A Girl, Checking Off Dates That Were Once Important But Are Now Mysterious. Bradbury, On The Other Hand, Seems To Remember Everything Because At 81, He Is Still 18 At Heart. In With Smiles As Wide As Summer, A Virtual Prose Poem About Being A Boy On Perpetual Vacation, He Notes, Circling, They Knocked The Echoes With Their Voices, Plunged, Rolled Over, Spun, Jigged, Shook Themselves, Raced Off, Hurtled Back, Leapt High, Mad With Summerlight And Heat, Unable To Stop Just Being Alive. The Pure Joy Of Earthly Existence Is Something Bradbury Has Never Forgotten. Southern California Regional Author Tour; Harper Audio. (apr. 2) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Do your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a happy ending? No matter what their taste, our Creative Short Stories series has the answer. We've taken some of the world's best stories from dark, musty anthologies and brought them into the light, giving them the individual attention they deserve. Each book in the series has been designed with today's young reader in mind. As the words come to life, students will develop a lasting appreciation for great literature. The humor of Mark Twain...the suspense of Edgar Allan Poe...the danger of Jack London...the sensitivity of Katherine Mansfield. Creative Short Stories has it all and will prove to be a welcome addition to any library. In 2061, in a world ravaged by war and filled with hatred for the past, a young boy is present at the destruction of the Mona Lisa.

In The Sleepy Mexican Town Of Guanajuato, With Its Neatly Kept Square And Elegant Neoclassical Theater, Is One Of The Most Bizarre And Compelling Galleries In The Western World. It Is Not A Museum, For This Gallery Is In A Cemetery; Its Walls Lined Not With Art But With Human Mummies, Standing With Mouths Agape, Eye Sockets Staring As If They Had Just Returned From The Other Side Of Hell. Indeed, They Have Literally Returned From The Grave--exhumed From The Dry, Desert Soil By Cemetery Keepers Because Relatives Of The Dead Were Too Poor To Pay For Maintenance. So Fascinating Are These Living Dead That Noted Author Ray Bradbury Wrote A Chilling Short Story After Seeing Them: So Visually Arresting That Photographer Archie Lieberman Was Moved To Quell His Horror And Create A Pictorial Record. The Two Artists' Reactions Comprise This Unusual Book. The Photographs Call Up The Deepest And Most Provocative Human Emotions. They Will Shock, Disturb And Terrify. But They Compel Viewing; They Stimulate Confrontation And, Believe It Or Not, Will Be Examined Again And Again. The Story, Like All Bradbury's Writing, Quivers With Tension And Evokes The Thoughts And Feelings That Reside Mostly On The Dark Side Of The Mind--stuff Of Nightmares. No One Who Experiences This Book Will Ever Forget It. The Next In Line / Ray Bradbury -- The Mummies / Archie Lieberman. Photography, Archie Lieberman ; Story, Ray Bradbury.

Text By Ray Bradbury. Includes Index. Also Issued Online.

The internationally acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury is a magician at the height of his powers, displaying his sorcerer's skill with twenty-one remarkable stories that run the gamut from total reality to light fantastic, from high noon to long after midnight. A true master tells all, revealing the strange secret of growing young and mad; opening a Witch Door that links two intolerant centuries; joining an ancient couple in their wild assassination games; celebrating life and dreams in the unique voice that has favored him across six decades and has enchanted millions of readers the world over.

Ray Bradbury. Being A Compilation Of Poems, Verse, Burial Orations, Essays, Story Fragments, Notions, Fancies And Concepts Having To Do With The Cosmos, The Universe, Visitations, Annunciatins, First And Last Suppers, Early Sabbaths, Communions, Bar Mitzvahs, Father And Son Banquets That Stretch From Here To Infinity To Try Parson, Preacher, Priest And Rabbinical Souls. More: To Wake Sleepers, Shorten Sundays, And Re-invigorate Truths Once Lost But Now Gladly Refound. All In The Name Of Sanity During An Endless Year Of Exhausted Creativity.

Ray Bradbury, America's most beloved storyteller, has spent a lifetime carrying readers to exhilarating and dangerous places, from dark street comers in unfamiliar cities and towns to the edge of the universe. Now, in an extraordinary flight of the imagination a half-century in the making, he takes us to a most wondrous destination: into the heart of an Eternal Family.They have lived for centuries in a house of legend and mystery in upper Illinois — and they are not like other midwesterners. Rarely encountered in daylight hours, their children are curious and wild; their old ones have survived since before the Sphinx first sank its paws deep in Egyptian sands. And some sleep in beds with lids.Now the house is being readied in anticipation of the gala homecoming that will gather together the farflung branches of this odd and remarkable family. In the past-midnight stillness can be detected the soft fluttering of Uncle Einars wings. From her realm of sleep, Cecy, the fairest and most special daughter, can feel the approach of many a welcome being — shapeshifter, telepath, somnambulist, vampire — as she flies high in the consciousness of bird and bat.But in the midst of eager anticipation, a sense of doom pervades. For the world is changing. And death, no stranger, will always shadow this most singular family: Father, arisen from the Earth; Mother, who never sleeps but dreams; A Thousand Times Great GrandmÉre; Grandfather, who keeps the wildness of youth between his ears.And the boy who, more than anyone, carries the burden of time on his shoulders: Timothy, the sad and different foundling son who must share it all, remember, and tell...and who, alone out of all of them, must one day age and wither and die.By turns lyrical, wistful, poignant, and chilling, From the Dust Returned is the long-awaited new novel by the peerless Ray Bradbury — a book that will surely be numbered among his most enduring masterworks.Publishers WeeklyIf there's a fountain of youth, Bradbury has found it. In the 1940s, at the start of his extraordinary writing career, Bradbury produced a series of popular fantasy short stories about the Elliot family, an assortment of vampires and other odd creatures of various degrees of humanity living in a Victorian castle in the golden Indiana of his youth. More than half a century later, he has fashioned from these stories a novel, funny, beautiful, sad and wise, to rank with his finest work. Full of wide-eyed wonder and dazzling imagery, the stories retain as an integrated whole all their original freshness and charm. The plot is simplicity itself: the vampires and their weird kin gather for a homecoming and share memories. Among them are Timothy, a foundling, whose pet spider is named Arach (originally Spid), and Cecy, immobile in bed but able to enter the minds of others and control their actions. Once, Cecy got a young woman to treat an unwanted but worthy suitor more politely than she would have otherwise: Peering down from the secret attic of this lovely head, Cecy yanked a hidden copper ventriloquist's wire and the pretty mouth popped wide: `Thank you.' Einar, a winged man, acts as a kite for children, writing a great and magical exclamation mark across a cloud! Most memorable of a remarkable cast are A Thousand Times Great Grand-Mere, who had been a pharaoh's daughter dressed in spider linens, and her husband, Grand-Pere, who after four thousand years still has ideas. At your age! she snaps. This book will shame the cynics and delight the true believers who never lost faith in their beloved author. (Oct. 8) FYI: Last fall Bradbury received the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medalfor Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

two Never-before-published Novellas By One Of America's Finest Living Writers, Ray Bradbury. a Journalist Bearing Terrible News Leaps From A Still-moving Train Into A Small Town Of Wonderful, Impossible Secrets . . . the Doomed Crew Of A Starship Follow Their Blind, Mad Captain On A Quest Into Deepest Space To Joust With Destiny, Eternity, And God Himself . . . now And Forever Is A Bold New Work From An Incomparable Artist Whose Stories Have Reshaped America's Literary Landscape; Two Bewitching Novellas That Have Never Before Appeared In Print—each Distinctly Different, Yet Uniquely Bradbury—demonstrating The Breathtaking Range Of The Master's Talent And The Irrepressible Vitality Of His Mind, Spirit, And Heart. in somewhere A Band Is Playing, A Writer Is Drawn By Poetry And Dreams To Tiny Summerton, Arizona, A Community Hidden In Plain View, Where No Small Children Play, And Where The Residents Never Seem To Age. Enchanted By Its Powerful Rural Magic—and By A Beautiful, Enigmatic Lady Who Bears The Name Of An Egyptian Queen—the Writer Sets Out To Uncover Summerton's Mysteries Before The Inevitable Arrival Of A Ruthless Destruction. with leviathan '99, The Author Who Once Colonized Mars Returns To The Cosmos To Brilliantly Reimagine Herman Melville's Classic Masterwork Of Obsession And The Sea, Transforming A Great Whale Into A Worlds-devouring Comet. In The Year 2099, Fledgling Astronaut Ishmael Hunnicut Jones Boards The cetus 7, Placing His Fate In The Hands Of A Relentless Madman Who Is Blindly Chasing The Celestial Monster's Tail. And In The Merciless Void, A Crew Of Earthborn And Alien Star-travelers Will Face A Divine Judgment, And An Enemy Wielding The Most Fearsome Weapon Of All . . . Time. more Than A Half Century Into His Remarkable Career, Ray Bradbury Continues To Delight And Astound With Grand Visions, Lyrical Prose, And Provocative Thought. Rich In Poetry, Wonder, Imagination, And Truth, Here Is Proof Positive That The Words And Stories Of The Inimitable Bradbury Will Live On . . . now And Forever.

ray Bradbury's First Poetry Collection To Be Published Outside The U.s. First Published By Salmon In 2002, This 2008 Edition Is Updated With Additional Poems. This Volume Is A Gift To Generations Who Have Read And Loved His Remarkable Work. Most Of The.poems In This Collection From The Unquenchable Bradbury Are New, But All Have His Evergreen Touch - Accessible, Humorous, Quietly Emotional. Bradbury Can't Long Restrain His Usual Luxuriating In The Sensual Wonder Of Life. Bradbury Fans, Hibernophiles, General Readers, Even Some Contemporary Poetry Snobs, Will Find This A Lovely Read.-publishers Weekly.publishers Weeklymost Of The Nearly 50 Poems In This Collection From The Unquenchable Bradbury Are New, But All Have His Evergreen Touch-accessible, Humorous, Quietly Emotional. Now In His 80s, The Master Is Feeling His Age, As Shown In To Ireland...: I Cannot Stand That Haunted Rain/ Where Youngness Melts Away To Sea. Rain Reappears As A Metaphor In Dublin Sunday, Where He And His Wife Sit Glumly In Their Hotel, All Plays Sold Out, A Favorite Pub Locked. Most Expressive Is Once The Years Were Numerous And The Funerals Few (once The Hours Were Years, Now Years Are Hours). For All The Gloom, Bradbury Can't Long Restrain His Usual Luxuriating In The Sensual Wonder Of Life. It's No-excuses-needed-for-living Weather Discovers The Beauty Of The Storm-cleansed Land. In Six Economical Lines, Manet/renoir Celebrates The Varying Approaches Of These Painters To Depicting The Female Form (rear View Or Facade?). When God In Loins A Beehive Puts Joyfully Defines Coming-of-age For Boys. Ahab At The Helm Takes Melville On A Delicious Parody Of Thayer's Casey At The Bat. The Bradbury Who Treasures Memory Emerges In With Love, An Account Of His Father's Attempts To Teach Him To Knot A Tie, And Byzantium I Come Not From, A Paean To His Midwest Origins. Bradbury Fans, Hibernophiles, General Readers, Even Some Contemporary Poetry Snobs, Will Find This A Lovely Read. (oct. 1) Fyi: This Is Bradbury's First Poetry Collection To Be Published Outside The U.s. An Irish Press Is Fitting, For Bradbury Has Loved Ireland Ever Since Writing The Screenplay For Moby-dick There. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Ray Bradbury ; Edited By Donn Albright. This Signed, Numbered Edition Is Limited To 750 Copies. This Is Number 508--p. [1]. This Volume Commemorates The Fiftieth Anniversary Of It Came From Outer Space By Publishing The Four Bradbury Screen Treatments....--dust Jacket.

In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe's quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts — Moby Dick — in the form of a workable screenplay so the great director can begin filming. But from the moment he sets foot on Irish soil, the author embarks on an unexpected odyssey. Meet congenial IRA terrorists, tippling men of the cloth impish playwrights, and the boyos at Heeber Finn's pub. In a land where myth is reality, poetry is plentiful, and life's misfortunes are always cause for celebration, Green Shadows, White Whale is the grandest tour of Ireland you'll ever experience — with the irrepressible Ray Bradbury as your enthusiastic guide.Publishers WeeklyThe title of this lighthearted, beguiling autobiographical novel is a play on Peter Viertel's White Hunter, Black Heart , which, like this book, dealt with the legendary director John Huston. This is Bradbury's comic account of his trip to Ireland to write the screenplay for Huston's adaptation of Moby-Dick . The movie itself is merely a background constant that anchors this series of vivid, ear-tingling vignettes and anecdotes. Bradbury describes his awed dealings with the erratic, eccentric and impulsive director, and his delight upon being accepted among the regulars at an atmospheric pub called Heeber Finn's. It's a great place to hoist a wee drop and listen to stories told in the best Irish brogue. Finn himself imaginatively tells of the time when George Bernard Shaw supposedly dropped into his establishment. Then there's the community's encounter with a ``willowy'' (read: gay) stranger and his crew of ballet dancers, a man who--to everyone's surprise-- proves to be no mean raconteur. Bradbury's prose is as vibrant and distinctive as the landscape in which these delightful tales are set. Illustrations not seen by PW. (May)

ray Bradbury Is A Modern Cultural Treasure. His Disarming Simplicity Of Style Underlies A Towering Body Of Work Unmatched In Metaphorical Power By Any Other American Storyteller. And Here, Presented In A New Trade Edition, Are Thirty-two Of His Most Famous Tales—prime Examples Of The Poignant And Mysterious Poetry Which Bradbury Uniquely Uncovers In The Depths Of The Human Soul, The Otherwordly Portraits Of outrÉ Fascination Which Spring From The Canvas Of One Of The Century's Great Men Of Imagination. From A Lonely Coastal Lighthouse To A Sixty-million-year-old Safary, From The Pouring Rain Of Venus To The Ominous Silence Of A Murder Scene, Ray Bradbury Is Our Sure-handed Guide Not Only To Surprising And Outrageous Manifestations Of The Future, But Also To The Wonders Of The Present That We Could Never Have Imagined On Our Own.ray Bradbury Is A Modern Cultural Treasure. His Disarming Simplicity Of Style Underlies A Towering Body Of Work Unmatched In Metaphorical Power By Any Other American Storyteller. And Here, Presented In A New Trade Edition, Are Thirty-two Of His Most Famous Tales—prime Examples Of The Poignant And Mysterious Poetry Which Bradbury Uniquely Uncovers In The Depths Of The Human Soul, The Otherwordly Portraits Of Outre Fascination Which Spring From The Canvas Of One Of The Centurys Great Men Of Imagination. From A Lonely Coastal Lighthouse To A Sixty-million-year-old Safari, From The Pouring Rain Of Venus To The Ominous Silence Of A Murder Scene, Ray Bradbury Is Our Sure-handed Guide Not Only To Surprising And Outrageous Manifestations Of The Future, But Also To The Wonders Of The Present That We Could Never Have Imagined On Our Own.

Yestermorrow: The Voyage To Far Metaphor And Elephant India: A Preface -- Fill Me With Wonder, You Architects [poem] -- Art And Science Fiction: Unbuilt Cities / Realized Dreams (1987) -- The Girls Walk This Way; The Boys Walk That Way (1970) -- The Aesthetics Of Lostness (1988) -- Who Owns What And Which And Why (1990) -- To Be Transported (1988) -- The Great American What Am I Doing Here, And Why Did I Buy That? Hardware Store (1987) -- The Aesthetics Of Size (1987) -- Yestermorrow Place (1987) -- Yes, We'll Gather At The River (1988) -- Go Not To The Graveyards (1987) -- Day After Tommorow (1953) -- The Renaissance Prince And The Baptist Martian (1979) -- Federico Fellini (1977) -- The Hipbone Of Abraham L. -- Moviola Mickey Or How To Jump-start A Mouse And Animate An Animation Museum -- Beyond 1984: The People Machines (1982) -- The Great Electric Time Maze -- A Feasting Of Thoughts, A Banqueting Of Words (1975) -- Science Fiction: Before Christ And After 2001 (1974) -- Grand Tour 2484 (1984) -- Or What Is Past, Or Passing, Or To Come [poem] -- Afterword (yestermorrow) (1989) / By Jon A. Jerde, Aia Ray Bradbury.

Few American novels written this century have endured in th 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 song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two inquisitive boys standing precariously on the brink of adulthood will soon discover the secret of the satanic raree-show's smoke, mazes, and mirrors, as they learn all too well the heavy cost of wishes -- and the stuff of nightmare.

A New Ray Bradbury Novella Which He Has Been Working On For Over 50 Years. This Edition Contains Early Drafts And Excerpts As Well As The Final Novella.

The Noted Science Fiction Author Displays His Talent For Poetry In This Slim Collection. Remembrance -- Pretend That Being Blind, Which Calls Truth Near -- Boys Across The Street Are Driving My Young Daughter Mad -- Old Ahab's Friend, And Friend To Noah, Speaks His Piece -- When Elephants Last In Dooryard Bloomed -- Darwin, The Curious -- Darwin, In The Fields -- Darwin, Wandering Home At Dawn -- Evidence -- Telling Where The Sweet Bums Are -- Emily Dickinson, Where Are You: Herman Melville Called Your Name Last Night In His Sleep! -- O Give A Fig For Newton, Praise For Him! -- I Was The Last, The Very Last -- Man Is Th The Animal That Cries -- N -- Air To Lavoisier -- Women Know Themselves; All Men Wonder -- Death In Mexico -- All Flesh Is One; What Matter Scores? -- Machines, Beyond Shylock -- Beast Upon The Wire -- Christ, Old Student In A New School -- This Time Of Kites -- If You Will Wait Just Long Enough, All Goes -- For A Daughter, Traveling -- Old Mars, Then Be A Hearth To Us -- Thing That Goes By Night: Self That Lazes Sun -- Groon -- Woman On The Lawn -- Train Station Sign Viewed By An Ancient Locomotive Passing Through Long After Midnight -- Please To Remember The Fifth Of November: Birthday Poem For Susan Marguerite -- That Is Our Eden's Spring, Once Promised -- Fathers And Son Banquet -- Touch Your Solitude To Mien -- God Is A Child; Put Toys In The Tomb -- Ode To Electric Ben -- Some Live Like Lazarus -- These Unsparked Flings, These Uncut Gravestone Brides -- And This Did Dante Do -- You Can Go Home Again -- Dark Our Celebration Was -- Mrs. Harriet Hadden Atwood, Who Played The Piano For Thomas A. Edison For The World's First Phonograph Record, Is Dead At 105 -- What Seems A Balm Is Salt To Ancient Wounds -- Here All Beautifully Collides -- God For Chimney Sweep -- Prove That Cowards Do Speak Best And True And Well -- I, Tom, And My Electric Gran -- Boys Are Always Running Somewhere; Poem -- O To Be A Boy In A Belfry -- If I Were Epitaph -- If Only We Had Taller Been. Poems.

Ray Bradbury.

Ray Bradbury is a painter who uses words rather than brushes—for he created lasting visual images that, once observed, are impossible to forget. Sinister mushrooms growing in a dank cellar. A family's first glimpse at Martians. A wonderful white vanilla ice-cream summer suit that changes everyone who wears it. A great artist drawing in the sand on the beach. A clunky contraption made out of household implements to help some kids play a game called Invasion. The most marvelous Christmas display a little boy ever saw. All those images and many more are inside this book, a new trade edition of thirty-one of Bradbury's most arresting tales—timeless short fiction that ranges from the farthest reaches of space to the innermost stirrings of the heart. Ray Bradbury is known worldwide as one of the century's great men of imagination. Here are thirty-one reasons why.Ray Bradbury is a painter who uses words rather than brushes—for he created lasting visual images that, once observed, are impossible to forget. Sinister mushrooms growing in a dank cellar. A familys first glimpse at Martians. A wonderful white vanilla ice-cream summer suit that changes everyone who wears it. A great artist drawing in the sand on the beach. A clunky contraption made out of household implements to help some kids play a game called Invasion. The most marvelous Christmas display a little boy ever saw. All those images and many more are inside this book, a new trade edition of thirty-one of Bradburys most arresting tales—timeless short fiction that ranges from the farthest reaches of space to the innermost stirrings of the heart. Ray Bradbury is known worldwide as one of the centurys great men of imagination. Here are thirty-one reasons why.

Illustrated classics for adults! Here, Collins Design's WISP series pairs two legendary creators–writer Ray Bradbury and artist Dave McKean–to create an irresistible package perfect for Halloween and all year 'round. The WISP series (Wonderfully Illustrated Short Pieces) represents an ingenious marriage of two creative forces: the artistry of today's foremost illustrators and the literary legacy of beloved authors of popular short works for adults. The resulting offspring of this union are captivating, full–color illustrated editions of timeless classics that readers will want to savor and collect. For the first time ever, the series makes selected popular short works previously offered only in collections available in a unique, stand–alone format. Also for the first time, WISPs harness the talents of top illustrators for the benefit and delight of a new, older audience. This WISP presents Ray Bradbury's The Homecoming, a little boy's tale of his family reunion of vampires. This story was initially published in 1946 and later refashioned into further stories. Bringing this story to life are the wondrous illustrations of Dave McKean, whose delightful artwork perfectly matches the tale. These one–of–a–kind, attractively priced and invitingly formatted illustrated editions will make a great impulse buy and appeal to a broad audience.

The October Country is Ray Bradbury’s own netherworld of the soul, inhabited by the horrors and demons that lurk within all of us. Renowned for his multi-million-copy bestseller, Fahrenheit 451, and hailed by Harper’s magazine as “the finest living writer of fantastic fiction,” Ray Bradbury proves here that he is America’s master of the short story.This classic collection features:The Emissary: The faithful dog was the sick boy’s only connection with the world outside—and beyond . . .The Small Assassin: A fine, healthy baby boy was the new mother’s dream come true—or her worst nightmare . . .The Scythe: Just when his luck had run out, Drew Erickson inherited a farm from a stranger; and with the bequest came deadly responsibilities . . .The Jar: A chilling story that combines love, death . . . and a matter of identity in a bottle of fear.The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone: A most remarkable case of murder—the deceased was delighted . . .Plus fourteen more unforgettable tales!“An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation.”—The New York Times

The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding—remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury.

The Martian Chronicles, a seminal work in Ray Bradbury's career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage, is available from Simon & Schuster for the first time.In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller, imagines a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor— of crystal pillars and fossil seas—where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanished, devastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race. In this classic work of fiction, Bradbury exposes our ambitions, weaknesses, and ignorance in a strange and breathtaking world where man does not belong.

The Small Assassin.--the Next In Line.--the Lake.--the Crowd.--jack-in-the-box.--the Man Upstairs.--the Cistern.--the Tombstone.--the Smiling People.--the Handler.--let's Play Poison.--the Night.--the Dead Man.

The Night -- Homecoming -- Uncle Einar -- The Traveler -- The Lake -- The Coffin -- The Crowd -- The Scythe -- There Was An Old Woman -- There Will Come Soft Rains -- Mars Is Heaven -- The Silent Towns -- The Earth Men -- The Off Season -- The Million-year Picnic -- The Fox And The Forest -- Kaleidoscope -- The Rocket Man -- Marionettes, Inc. -- No Particular Night Or Morning -- The City -- The Fire Balloons -- The Last Night Of The World -- The Veldt -- The Long Rain -- The Great Fire -- The Wilderness -- A Sound Of Thunder -- The Murderer -- The April Witch -- Invisible Boy -- The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind -- The Fog Horn -- The Big Black And White Game -- Embroidery -- The Golden Apples Of The Sun -- Powerhouse -- Hail And Farewell -- The Great Wide World Over There -- The Playground -- Skeleton -- The Man Upstairs -- Touched With Fire -- The Emissary -- The Jar -- The Small Assassin -- The Next In Line -- Jack-in-the-box -- The Leave-taking -- Exorcism -- The Happiness Machine -- Calling Mexico -- The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit -- Dark They Were, And Golden-eyed -- The Strawberry Window -- A Scent Of Sarsaparilla -- The Picasso Summer -- The Day It Rained Forever -- A Medicine For Melancholy -- The Shoreline At Sunset -- Fever Dream -- The Town Where No One Got Off -- All Summer In A Day -- Frost And Fire -- The Anthem Sprinters -- And So Died Riabouchinska -- Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar! -- The Vacation -- The Illustrated Woman -- Some Live Like Lazarus -- The Best Of All Possible Worlds -- The One Who Waits -- Tyrannosaurus Rex -- The Screaming Woman -- The Terrible Conflagration Up At The Place -- Night Call, Collect -- The Tombling Day -- The Haunting Of The New -- Tomorrow's Child -- I Sing The Body Electric! -- The Woman -- The Inspired Chicken Motel -- Yes, We'll Gather At The River -- Have I Got A Chocolate Bar For You! -- A Story Of Love -- The Parrot Who Met Papa -- The October Game -- Punishment Without Crime -- A Piece Of Wood -- The Blue Bottle -- Long After Midnight -- The Utterly Perfect Murder -- The Better Part Of Wisdom -- Interval In Sunlight -- The Black Ferris -- Farewell Summer -- Mcgillahee's Brat -- The Aqueduct -- Gotcha! -- The End Of The Beginning. With An Introduction By Christopher Buckley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. Xvii).