![]() ![]() In "The Next in Line," a woman becomes convinced that she'll never leave the small, Mexican town she's traveled to on vacation. "Uncle Einar" and "Homecoming" concern the monstrous and immortal Elliott family. ![]() The October Country collects nineteen short stories: macabre carnival tales, speculative horror, and strange fantasy. The Illustrated Man-the more Earthbound science fiction companion to Bradbury's classic collection The Martian Chronicles-contains eighteen short stories bound together by the unifying metaphor of a strangely tattooed outcast. The stories explore both the dehumanizing possibilities of space-age technology-in "The Veldt" and "The Rocket Man"-and the pessimistic, dark side of humanity, as in "The Visitor." Here are two of Bradbury's most beloved collections, along with twenty-seven other stories, that together represent the best of Bradbury's stories of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. 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. ![]() 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 ![]()
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