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One More for the Road
The `Master of Storytelling’ treats us to eighteen brand-new stories and seven more previously published but never before collected. Tales of abandoned places and betrayed love; of a house where time has no boundaries; of a faraway planet plagued by an epidemic of sorrow; a wheat field that hides a strangely welcome enemy; the ghosts of dear friends, of errant sons and lost fathers. These are but a few of the ingredients that have gone into Bradbury’s savoury cocktail.
One More For The Road is a superb refreshment served with wit, heart and flair by the incomparable Ray Bradbury.
This one’s on Ray...
`The best in his field’ Starburst
`Bradbury enchants and captivates; his tales have all the fear, fascination and wonder of a dark circus heading for town and promising marvels’ SFX
`An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation’ New York Times
`Bradbury is an authentic original’ Time magazine
`Remarkable range and intensity of vision’ Sunday Times
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From the Dust Returned
In the attic where the rain touched the roof softly on spring days and where you could feel the mantle of snow outside, a few inches away, on December nights, a thousand-time great grandmere existed. She did not live, nor was she eternally dead, she… existed
She is the grandmother of the Elliott family, which includes mind-readers, vampires and many others ...maybe. In a strange old house, they gradually come together, mixing their arcane skills and life-styles, falling in and out of love and changing the world around them forever.
You have never seen their like before.
Ray Bradbury, doyen of fantastical fiction, has written his first novel for many years, telling tales of the Elliotts, about whom he has written for decades. Tales of their genesis and demise, their adventures and mishaps, their loves and their sorrows. Welcome to the world of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.
'The best in his field' Starburst
'Substantial and intriguing' Locus
'Funny, beautiful, sad and wise' Publishers Weekly
'Bradbury enchants and captivates' SFX
'Bradbury is an authentic original' Time
'The American master of the weird' New York Herald Tribune
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Long After Midnight
Earthlight celebrates Ray Bradbury's 80th year by republishing his classic short story collection
A crazy scheme to bring peace to the world with the aid of rust… A Martian who could be Jesus… An author, plucked from his grave to write a novel, is thwarted by one Melissa Toad, the mysterious witch of New York…
Whether Bradbury’s story is set in a priest's confessional box or on the surface of Mars, he constantly conjures something new. The result is a collection of tales which demolish the old saying: truth is stranger than fiction.
‘Soaring imagination… superb stories… they all sing with the Bradbury magic.’ Scottish Daily Record
‘Remarkable range and intensity of vision’ The Sunday Times
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
It was just after midnight when the carnival train bringing Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show to Green Town, Illinois announced its arrival, the engine’s whistle shrieking, the show’s steam organ playing. For two young friends, Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway, the siren call of the carnival is irresistible. But these are no ordinary sideshows, no ordinary mazes and mirrors. In Ray Bradbury’s incomparable masterpiece the Shadow Show has come to destroy every life it touches with its sinister mysteries.
Fantasy Masterworks is a library of some of the greatest, most original, and most influential fantasy ever written. These are the books which, along with Tolkien, Peake and others, shaped modern fantasy.
‘I believe that Something Wicked This Way Comes, a darkly poetic tale ... is probably Bradbury’s best work… [he] carries his story off with guts and beauty and panache’ Stephen King
‘Ray Bradbury’s most poignant evocation of the hopes and frustrations of small-town life’ The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
‘One of our eminent dreamers… the Hans Christian. Andersen of the jet age’ Brian W. Aldiss
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The Machineries of Joy
From Ireland to film studios, from monsters to the American countryside, The Machineries of Joy explores Ray Bradbury’s secret countries.
Sometimes tender, sometimes harder than diamonds, his writing covers all seasons and emotions, and shows, time after time why Harper’s called him ‘America’s finest living fantasist’.
'A powerful and mysterious imagination' Guardian
About The Author
Ray Bradbury is one of the most celebrated fiction writers of the 20th century.
This year is his 80th birthday and the 50th anniversary of The Martian Chronicles which established his reputation as the most important figure in the development of science fiction as a literary genre. He is the author of over 500 published works, including novels, short stories and screenplays which include Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Illustrated Man. Bradbury's work evokes the themes of racism, censorship, technology, nuclear war, humanistic values and the importance of imagination. He has won many awards and accolades for his writing; possibly the most unusual was having a crater on the Moon named after his novel, Dandelion Wine.
Ray Bradbury has also written for the theater and cinema - including the screenplay of John Huston's classic adaptation of Moby Dick.
He lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
One More for the Road
(Earthlight Pbk,
2003)
From the Dust Returned
(Earthlight,
2002)
Earthlight Pbk Sep 02
A Graveyard For Lunatics
(Grafton Books,
1990)
Death is a Lonely Business
(Grafton Books,
1986)
Long After Midnight
(Hart Davis,
1977)
Earthlight Pbk May 00
Something Wicked This Way Comes
(
1962)
Gollancz Pbk Mar 06
The Machineries of Joy
Earthlight Pbk Dec 00
A Memory of Murder
The Illustrated Man
Fahrenheit 451
Dandelion Wine
Earthlight Pbk Jul 00
The Martian Chronicles
The Halloween Tree
Earthlight Pbk Jan 00
One More for the Road
by Ray Bradbury
