Staff Pick

Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel

Ray Bradbury

$17.99

Publication Date: October 24th, 2017

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

ISBN:

9781501167713

Pages:

352

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Staff Reviews

This is book might be a blast from the past for some of you, or a vaguely remembered movie title. Either way, Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes is a timeless book about boyhood, father/son relationships, life and death, the strange nature of the strange, and good & evil. It’s also about being passionate and adventurous, and it drew me in again, just as it did when I was twelve and also running around outdoors at night after curfew, following lightning storms. A perfect book, especially this time of year, when it’s darker for a longer period of time each day and the idea of settling down with a good book about youth and summer with a lap cat is just the perfect elixir!

— Kim

Description

One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now featuring a new introduction and material about its longstanding influence on culture and genre.

For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. A calliope’s shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes…and the stuff of nightmares.

Few novels have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury’s unparalleled literary masterpiece Something Wicked This Way Comes. Scary and suspenseful, it is a timeless classic in the American canon.

About the Author

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston’s Moby Dick and the Emmy Award–winning teleplay The Halloween Tree, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for The Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors.