Ray Bradbury Books In Order

Crumley Mysteries Books In Publication Order

  1. Death is a Lonely Business (1985)
  2. A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990)
  3. Let’s All Kill Constance (2003)

Green Town Books In Publication Order

  1. Dandelion Wine (1957)
  2. Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)
  3. Farewell Summer (2006)
  4. Summer Morning, Summer Night (2008)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
  2. The Halloween Tree (1972)
  3. Green Shadows, White Whale (1992)
  4. Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines (1998)
  5. From the Dust Returned (2001)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Dark Carnival (1947)
  2. The Martian Chronicles (1950)
  3. The Illustrated Man (1951)
  4. A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (1952)
  5. The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
  6. The October Country (1955)
  7. The Day It Rained Forever (1959)
  8. A Medicine for Melancholy (1959)
  9. The Small Assassin (1962)
  10. R Is for Rocket (1962)
  11. The Machineries of Joy (1964)
  12. The Vintage Bradbury (1965)
  13. The Autumn People (1965)
  14. Twice 22 (1966)
  15. Tomorrow Midnight (1966)
  16. S is for Space (1966)
  17. Fever Dream And Other Fantasies (1968)
  18. I Sing the Body Electric (1969)
  19. Ray Bradbury (1975)
  20. Long After Midnight (1976)
  21. Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories (1979)
  22. The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980)
  23. The Last Circus and the Electrocution (1980)
  24. Dinosaur Tales (1984)
  25. A Memory of Murder (1984)
  26. The Toynbee Convector (1988)
  27. Selected from Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed (1990)
  28. Classic Stories 2 (1990)
  29. Quicker Than the Eye (1996)
  30. Driving Blind (1997)
  31. One More for the Road (2002)
  32. Stories Volume 2 (2003)
  33. Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003)
  34. The Cat’s Pajamas (2004)
  35. Now and Forever (2007)
  36. We’ll Always Have Paris (2009)
  37. A Pleasure to Burn (2010)
  38. The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 1 (2011)
  39. The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 2 (2014)
  40. The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: Critical Edition Vol 3 (2017)
  41. Killer, Come Back To Me (2020)
  42. Venus Remembered (2020)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Skeletons (1945)
  2. The Homecoming (1946)
  3. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950)
  4. The Veldt (1950)
  5. A Sound of Thunder (1951)
  6. The Fog Horn (1951)
  7. The Playground (1953)
  8. The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1972)
  9. The Mummies of Guanajuato (1978)
  10. One Timeless Spring (1980)
  11. The Love Affair (1982)
  12. Death Has Lost Its Charm For Me (1987)
  13. Fever Dream (1987)
  14. The Dragon Who Ate His Tail (2007)
  15. Marionettes, Inc. (2009)
  16. Defense Mech (2021)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Art of Playboy (1985)
  2. Zen in the Art of Writing (1987)
  3. Folon’s Folons (1990)
  4. Yestermorrow (1991)
  5. Rod Steiger: Memoirs of a Friendship (1998)
  6. Imagining Space: Achievements, Predictions, Possibilities 1950-2050 (2001)
  7. Conversations with Ray Bradbury (2004)
  8. Bradbury Speaks (2005)
  9. Match to Flame (2007)
  10. Listen to the Echoes (2010)

Poetry Books In Publication Order

  1. When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed (1973)
  2. Where Robot Mice & Robot Men Run Round in Robot Towns (1977)
  3. This Attic Where the Meadow Greens (1979)
  4. The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope (1981)
  5. The Complete Poems of Ray Bradbury (1982)

Screenplays/Plays Books In Publication Order

  1. Kaleidoscope (1940)
  2. The Anthem Sprinters and Other Antics (1963)
  3. Pillar of Fire and Other Plays for Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond Tomorrow (1975)
  4. Nemo! (2012)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents Books In Publication Order

  1. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Go Bump in the Night (By:) (1940)
  2. Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV (By:) (1957)
  3. Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV (With: Robert Bloch,,Robert Arthur,,Roald Dahl,,,,,,,James Francis Dwyer) (1957)
  4. 12 Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV (By:Robert Arthur) (1957)
  5. Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories for Late at Night (By:Robert Arthur) (1961)
  6. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: More Stories for Late at Night [Unabridged] (By:) (1962)
  7. Alfred Hitchcock’s A Hangman’s Dozen (With: Donald E Westlake,,,Robert Arthur,Richard Matheson,,,,,,,Richard Stark) (1962)
  8. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me (By:Shirley Jackson,Robert Arthur,Richard Matheson,F. Scott Fitzgerald) (1963)
  9. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous (With: Ellis Peters,Dorothy L Sayers,,,,Robert Arthur,Richard Matheson,,Michael Gilbert,,,Carter Dickson,,Julian May,,,,,,,,Margot Bennett) (1965)
  10. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Month Of Mystery (By:) (1970)
  11. Down by the Old Blood Stream (By:) (1971)
  12. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Master’s Choice. (By:) (1979)
  13. Stories That Go Bump In The Night: V. 1 (By:) (1982)

Star Science Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 (By:Frederik Pohl) (1953)

Graphic Novels Books In Publication Order

  1. Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation (With: ) (2009)

Dark Delicacies Books In Publication Order

  1. Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World’s Greatest Horror Writers (2005)
  2. Dark Delicacies II: Fear (2007)
  3. Dark Delicacies III: Haunted (2009)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Star Science Fiction Stories 3 (1955)
  2. Alfred Hitchcock’s Monster Museum: Twelve Shuddery Stories for Daring Young Readers (1965)
  3. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me (1967)
  4. Time Untamed (1967)
  5. Weird Legacies (1977)
  6. Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror (1980)
  7. Scaremongers (1981)
  8. Masques: All New Works of Horror and the Supernatural (1984)
  9. The Horror Hall of Fame (1991)
  10. Space Movies (1995)
  11. Time Machines (1997)
  12. A Magic-Lover’s Treasury of the Fantastic (1998)
  13. The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998)
  14. Dark Terrors 3: The Gollancz Book of Horror (1999)
  15. The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1999)
  16. October Dreams (2000)
  17. Masques V (2006)
  18. Halloween (2009)
  19. The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010)
  20. Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (2012)
  21. A CarnivA le of Horror (2012)
  22. Other Worlds (2013)
  23. Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (2014)
  24. The 12th Science Fiction MEGAPACKA (2016)
  25. Grave Predictions (2016)
  26. Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore (2017)
  27. Lost Mars (2018)
  28. The Science Fiction Collection #1 (2018)
  29. 99 Classic Science-Fiction Short Stories (2019)
  30. The Science Fiction Collection (2019)
  31. One Hundred (2020)
  32. The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020)

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Ray Bradbury Books Overview

Death is a Lonely Business

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.

A Graveyard for Lunatics

Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.

Let’s All Kill Constance

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.

Dandelion Wine

An endearing classic of childhood fancies and memories of an idyllic Midwestern summer from America’s most beloved storyteller. Dandelion WineRay Bradbury’s moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author’s most deeply personal work, a semi autobiographical recollection of a magical small town summer in 1928. Twelve year old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. It is a pair of brand new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather’s renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley’s bell on a hazy afternoon. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay. It can be a best friend moving away, a human time machine who can transport you back to the Civil War, or a sideshow automaton able to glimpse the bittersweet future. Come and savor Ray Bradbury’s priceless distillation of all that is eternal about boyhood and summer. Twelve year old Douglas Spaulding knows Green town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. It is a pair of brand new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather’s renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley’s bell on a hazy afternoon. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay. It can be a best friend moving away, a human time machine who can transport you back to the Civil War, or a sideshow automaton able to glimpse the bittersweet future.

Something Wicked This Way Comes

The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. The shrill siren song of a calliope 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 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 nightmare.

Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury’s unparalleled literary classic Something Wicked This Way Comes. 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. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. The shrill siren song of a calliope 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 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 nightmare.

Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury’s unparalleled literary classic Something Wicked This Way Comes. 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. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content A masterpiece of modern Gothic literature, Something Wicked This Way Comes is the memorable story of two boys, James Nightshade and William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small Midwestern town with the arrival of a ‘dark carnival’ one Autumn midnight. How these two innocents, both age 13, save the souls of the town as well as their own, makes for compelling reading on timeless themes. What would you do if your secret wishes could be granted by the mysterious ringmaster Mr. Dark? Bradbury excels in revealing the dark side that exists in us all, teaching us ultimately to celebrate the shadows rather than fear them. In many ways, this is a companion piece to his joyful, nostalgia drenched Dandelion Wine, in which Bradbury presented us with one perfect summer as seen through the eyes of a 12 year old. In Something Wicked This Way Comes, he deftly explores the fearsome delights of one perfectly terrifying, unforgettable autumn. Stanley Wiater

Farewell Summer

In a summer that refuses to end, in the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to Green Town, Illinois. It is the age-old conflict: the young against the elderly, for control of the clock that ticks their lives ever forward. The first cap-pistol shot heard ’round the town is dead accurate, felling an old man in his tracks, compelling town elder and school board despot Mr. Calvin C. Quartermain to marshal his graying forces and declare total war on the assassin, thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding, and his downy-cheeked cohorts. Doug and his cronies, however, are most worthy adversaries who should not be underestimated, as they plan and execute daring campaigns-matching old Quartermain’s experience and cunning with their youthful enthusiasm and devil-may-care determination to hold on forever to childhood’s summer. Yet time must ultimately be the victor, with valuable revelations for those on both sides of the conflict. And life waits in ambush to assail Doug Spaulding with its powerful mysteries-the irresistible ascent of manhood, the sweet surrender to a first kiss…

One of the most acclaimed and beloved of American storytellers, Ray Bradbury has come home, revisiting the verdant landscape of one of his most adored works, Dandelion Wine. More than fifty years in the making, the long-awaited sequel, Farewell Summer, is a treasure-beautiful, poignant, wistful, hilarious, sad, evocative, profound, and unforgettable…
and proof positive that the flame of wonder still burns brightly within the irrepressible imagination of the incomparable Bradbury.

Summer Morning, Summer Night

Green Town, Illinois stands at the very heart of Ray Bradbury Country. A lovingly re imagined version of the author’s native Waukegan, it has served as the setting for such modern classics as Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Farewell Summer . In Summer Morning, Summer Night, Bradbury returns to this signature locale with a generous new collection of twenty seven stories and vignettes, seventeen of which have never been published before. Together, they illuminate some of Green Town’s previously hidden corners, and reaffirm Bradbury’s position as the undisputed master of a unique fictional universe. In the course of this volume, readers will encounter a gallery of characters brought vividly to life by that indefinable Bradbury magic. Included among them are a pair of elderly sisters whose love potion carries an unexpected consequence; a lonely teacher who discovers love on Green Town’s nocturnal streets; a ten year old girl who literally unearths the intended victim of a vicious crime; and an aging man who recreates his past with the aid of a loaf of pumpernickel bread. Each of these stories is engaging, evocative, and deeply felt. Each reflects the characteristic virtues that have always marked the best of Bradbury’s fiction: optimism, unabashed nostalgia, openness to experience, and, most centrally, an abiding generosity of spirit. Summer Morning, Summer Night is both an unexpected gift and a treasure trove of Story. Its people, places, images, and events will linger in the reader’s mind for many years to come.

Fahrenheit 451

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of this timeless classic with a special edition featuring a new foreword by the author and a message that is as relevant today as when it was first published. Since the late 1940s, Ray Bradbury has been revered for his works of science fiction and fantasy. With more than 4 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 originally published in 1953 remains his most acclaimed work: ‘One of the most brilliant overall jobs of social satire.’ The Nation ‘Frightening in its implications…
Mr. Bradbury’s account of this insane world, which bears many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating.’ The New York Times Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which book paper burns. Fahrenheit 451 is a short novel set in the perhaps near future when ‘firemen’ burn books forbidden by the totalitarian ‘brave new world’ regime. The hero, according to Mr. Bradbury, is ‘a book burner who suddenly discovers that books are flesh and blood ideas and cry out silently when put to the torch.’ Today, when libraries and schools are still ‘burning’ certain books, Fahrenheit 451 is a work of even greater impact and timeliness.

The Halloween Tree

‘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.’ BooklistFrom the Trade Paperback edition.

Green Shadows, White Whale

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.

Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines

Bradbury’s ‘Ahmed and the Oblivion Macines’ is a fable for adults and children alike about the importance of letting dreams take flight. It is the adventure of the daydreaming Ahmed, the twelve year old son of a caravan leader. During an evening trek across the desert, Ahmed falls from his camel and is left behind only to discover and awaken the ancient god Gonn Ben Allah. The god, thankful for his salvation, bestows on Ahmed the gift of flight and together they journey through space and time, witnessing the wonders of the world yet to come or that has been. It is this journey, in true mythological fashion, that transforms the child by bestowing him wisdom and granting him the courage to make his dreams come true.

From the Dust Returned

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 Grandm re; 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.

Dark Carnival

Over 50 years out of print the October release of Dark Carnival by RAY BRADBURY will be the literary event of the year for Bradbury fans. After many years Ray Bradbury has agreed to allow this classic to be published in a LIMITED edition, with bonus material, edited by his long time bibliographer Donn Albright. With the space allowed here we can’t provide details of ALL the bonus material, but for complete details check out the Gauntlet Press website. The cover art is a Bradbury oil painting from Albright’s personal collection, painted by Bradbury around the time of the original publication of Dark Carnival. We will be reproducing the book as it originally appeared AND then add a host of bonus material, from Albright s personal archives. We will be including five additional short stories for this definitive edition of the Dark Carnival. These are stories that did not appear in the original, with most all but impossible to get a hol! d of. All were originally published in Weird Tales and were at one time considered for publication in the original version of Dark Carnival. Four stories will appear in the book itself: The Watchers Bradbury s first anthology sale in Rue Morgue which he sold at the age of 25. There is also The Poems Bang, You re Dead and The Seashells. Other bonus material include Bradbury s original proposal for Dark Carnival, a detailed proposal for a ballet with handwritten notes Bradbury made to himself, the original U.S. and U.K. versions of the cover, story notes in Bradbury s own words from a taped session with Donn Albright and far more. Only 700 numbered copies of this classic will be sold. After we re sold out Bradbury s representatives say the book goes back in the vault NO further editions, no paperback. Since the book will not be out until November but will in all probability be sold out it’s wise to order a copy now. With so few available their value will skyrocket, just like the original. Note: This book will not be signed by the author, as previously noted. Gauntlet Press, 10/23/2001.

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America’s most beloved authors. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays, and numerous superb short story collections. But of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminously than these masterful chronicles of Earth’s settlement of the fourth world from the sun. Bradbury’s Mars is 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 silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars…
and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race. Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of twentieth century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time’s passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grandmaster once again enthralls, delights, and challenges us with his vision and his heart starkly and stunningly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, our weakness, our folly, and our poignant humanity on a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong. The twenty seven stories contained in The Martian Chronicles are ‘Rocket Summer,’ ‘Ylla,’ ‘The Summer Night,’ ‘The Earth Men,’ ‘The Taxpayer,’ ‘The Third Expedition,’ ‘ And the Moon Be Still as Bright,’ ‘The Settlers,’ ‘The Green Morning,’ ‘The Locusts,’ ‘Night Meeting,’ ‘The Shore,’ ‘The Fire Balloons,’ ‘Interim,’ ‘The Musicians,’ ‘The Wilderness,’ ‘The Naming of Names,’ ‘Usher II,’ ‘The Old Ones,’ ‘The Martian,’ ‘The Luggage Store,’ ‘The Off Season,’ ‘The Watchers,’ ‘The Silent Towns,’ ‘The Long Years,’ ‘There Will Come Soft Rains,’ and ‘The Million Year Picnic.’

The Illustrated Man

He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could bear the voiced murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body.

The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades from The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 to Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes.

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 settling 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.

He was a riot of rockets and fountains and people, in such intricate detail and color that you could hear the voices murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body.

Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. A peerless American storyteller, his oeuvre has been celebrated for decades from The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 to Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes.

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 settling 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 ILLUSTRATEDMAN 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.

A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades. This collection showcases thirty two of Bradbury’s most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly and possibly something else much closer to home…

The Golden Apples of the Sun

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 outr 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.

The October Country

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 Medicine for Melancholy

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 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.

R Is for Rocket

Seventeen breathtaking stories by the master of the weird and the wonderful, including the spaceage classic, ‘Frost and Fire’.

The Vintage Bradbury

Once upon a time people described Ray Bradbury as a particularly gifted writer of science fiction. Today he seems more like a magical realist, a small town American cousin to Borges and Garcia Marquez. A writer whose vision of the world is so intense that the objects in it sometimes levitate or glow with otherworldly auras. Who but Bradbury could imagine the playroom in which children’s fantasies become real enough to kill? The beautiful white suit that turns six down and out Chicanos into their ideal selves? Only Bradbury could make us identify with a man who lives in terror of his own skeleton. And if a generic science fiction writer might describe a spaceship landing on Mars, only Bradbury can tell us how the Martians see it and the and dreamlike visitors from Planet Earth.

S is for Space

From the back cover: And for science fiction spine tingling, supernatural and sublime. S is for stories from a Star Wilderness that stretches as far as the eye and mind can see and imagine. Creatures who walk from the grave, children who sabotage the earth, Martians and mushrooms, space ships and superbeings in a spellbinding collection of sixteen masterworks by the author of Long After Midnight, The Illustrated Man, The Martian Chronicles and Dandelion Wine.

I Sing the Body Electric

The mind of Ray Bradbury is a wonder filled carnival of delight and terror that stretches from the verdant Irish countryside to the coldest reaches of outer space. Yet all his work is united by one common thread: a vivid and profound understanding of the vast seet of emotionsthat bring strength and mythic resonance to our frail species. Ray Bradbury characters may find themselves anywhere and anywhen. A horrified mother may give birth to a strange blue pyramid. A man may take Abraham Linkoln out of the grave and meet another who puts him back. An amazing Electrical Grandmother may come to live with a grieving family. An old parrort may have learned over long evenings to imitate the voice of Ernest Hemingway, and become the last link to the last link to the great man. A priest on Mars may confront his fondest dream: to meet the Messiah. Each of these magnificient creations has something to tell us about our own humanity and all of their fates await you in this new trade edition of twenty eight classic Bradbury stories and one luscious poem. Travel on an unpredictable and unforgettable literary journey safe in the hands of the century’s great men of imagination. The mind of Ray Bradbury is a wonder filled carnival of delight and terror that stretches from the verdant Irish countryside to the coldest reaches of outer space. Yet all his work is united by one common thread: a vivid and profound understanding of the vast set of emotions that bring strength and mythic resonance to our frail species. Ray Bradbury characters may find themselves anywhere and anywhen. A horrified mother may give birth to a strange blue pyramid. A man may take Abraham Lincoln out of the grave and meet another who puts him back. An amazing Electrical Grandmother may come to live with a grieving family. An old parrot may have learned over long evenings to imitate the voice of Ernest Hemingway, and became the last link to the great man. A priest on Mars may confront his fondest dream: to meet the Messiah. Each of these magnificent creations has something to tell us about our humanity and all of their fates await you in this new trade edition of twenty eight classic Bradbury stories and one luscious poem. Travel on an unpredictable and unforgettable literary journey safe in the hands of one the centurys great men of imagination.

The Stories of Ray Bradbury

One hundred of Ray Bradbury’s remarkable stories which have, together with his classic novels, earned him an immense international audience and his place among the most imaginative and enduring writers of our time. Here are the Martian stories, tales that vividly animate the red planet, with its brittle cities and double mooned sky. Here are the stories that speak of a special nostalgia for Green Town, Illinois, the perfect setting for a seemingly cloudless childhood except for the unknown terror lurking in the ravine. Here are the Irish stories and the Mexican stories, linked across their separate geographies by Bradbury s astonishing inventiveness. Here, too, are thrilling, terrifying stories including The Veldt and The Fog Horn perfect for reading under the covers. Read for the first time, these stories become as unshakable as one s own fantasies. Read again and again they reveal new, dazzling facets of the extraordinary art of Ray Bradbury.

The Last Circus and the Electrocution

Boldly signed by Ray Bradbury on the first end paper in black marker

The Toynbee Convector

Bradbury displays anew the unclassifiable versatility of his imagination in this new collection of twenty stories, the first in eight years. This fall, USA Cable television will rebroadcast six episodes of the HBO Ray Bradbury Theatre series.

Quicker Than the Eye

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.

Driving Blind

The incomparable Ray Bradbury is in the driver’s seat, off on twenty one unforgettable excursions through fantasy, time and memory, and there are surprises waiting around every curve and behind each mile marker. The journey promises to be a memorable one.

One More for the Road

For more than fifty years Ray Bradbury has regaled us with wonders, enabled us to view from fresh perspectives the world we inhabit, and see others we never dreamed existed. Here are eighteen brand new stories and seven previously published but never before collected stories proof positive that Bradbury’s magic is as potent as ever. Sip the sweet innocence of youth, the wisdom and folly of age. Taste the warm mysteries of summer and bitterness of betrayed loves and abandoned places. These stories will set your mind spinning and carry you to remarkable locales: a house where lime has no boundaries; a movie theater where deconstructed schlock is drunkenly assembled into art; a wheat field that hides a strangely welcome enemy. These are but a few of the ingredients that have gone into Bradbury’s savory cocktail. And every satisfying swallow brings new surprises and revelations.

Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales

For more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America’s preeminent storyteller offers us one hundred treasures from alifetime of words and ideas tales that amaze, enthrall, and horrify; breathtaking journeys backward andforward in time; classic stories with the undiminished power to tantalize, mystify, elate, and move the reader to tears. Each small gem in the master’s collection remains as dazzling as when it first appeared in print. There is magic in these pages: the wonders of interstellar flight, a conspiracy of insects, the early bloom of love in the warmth of August. Both the world of Ray Bradbury and its people are vivid and alive, as colorfully unique as a poker chip hand painted by a brilliant artist or as warmly familiar as the well used settings on a family’s dining room table. In a poor man’s desire for the stars, in the twisted night games of a hateful embalmer, in a magnificent fraud perpetrated to banish despair and repair a future, in a writer’s wonderful death is the glowing proof of the timeless artistry of one of America’s greatest living bards. The one hundred stories in this volume were chosen by Bradbury himself, and span a career that blossomed in the pulp magazines of the early 1940s and continues to flourish in the new millennium. Here are representatives of the legendary author’s finest works of short fiction, including many that have not been republished for decades, all forever fresh and vital, evocative and immensely entertaining. This is Bradbury at his very best golden visions of tomorrow, poetic memories of yesterday, dark nightmares and glorious dreams a grand celebration of humankind, God’s intricate yet poignantly fallible machineries of joy.

The Cat’s Pajamas

Ray Bradbury is, indisputably, one of America’s greatest storytellers. The recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, he ranks among the most beloved and widely read of American authors. In The Cat’s Pajamas, this ‘latter day O. Henry’ Booklist takes us on an amazing walk through his six decade career, presenting twenty two tales some old, some new, all but two never before published. Here you will find stories strange and scary, nostalgic and bittersweet, humorous and heart touching, ranging from the not so long gone past to an unknowable future: a group of senators drinks a bit too much and gambles away the United States; a newlywed couple buys an old house and finds their fledgling relationship tested; two mysterious strangers arrive at a rooming house and baffle their fellow occupants with strange crying in the night; a lonely woman takes a last chance on love. The final piece in the collection is a story poem, a fond salute from Bradbury to his literary heroes Shaw, Chesterton, Dickens, Twain, Poe, Wilde, Melville, and Kipling. The Cat’s Pajamas is just that the bee’s knees a touching, timeless, and tender collection from the incomparable Ray Bradbury, and a anoramic view of an amazingly long, rich, and fertile creative career.

Now and Forever

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.

We’ll Always Have Paris

Over the course of a storied literary career that has spanned more than half a century, Ray Bradbury has taken us to wonderful places: across vast oceans to foreign lands, onto summer porches of small town America, through dark and dangerous forests where predators wait, into the hypnotic mists of dream, back to a halcyon past to remember, forward into an exhilarating future, and rocketing through outer space.

In We’ll Always Have Paris a new collection of never before published stories the inimitable Bradbury once again does what few writers have ever done as well. He delights us with prose that soars and sings. He surprises and inspires, exposing truths and provoking deep thought. He imagines great things and poignantly observes human foibles and frailties. He enchants us with the magic he mastered decades ago and still performs flawlessly. In these pages, radio voices become indomitable flesh and the dead arise to recapture life. There is joy in an eccentric old man’s dance for the world and wonder over the workings of humankind’s best friend, O Holy Dog. Whether he’s exploring the myriad ways to be reborn, or the circumstances that can make any man a killer, or returning us to Mars, Bradbury opens the world to us and beckons us in.

Get ready to travel far and wide once again with America’s preeminent storyteller. His tales will live forever. We will always have Bradbury and for that reason, we are eternally blessed.

A Pleasure to Burn

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is one of the undisputed classics of modern science fiction. Its title has become part of our common language. Its portrait of an increasingly soulless society in which books and ideas are anathema has become part of our cultural heritage. A Pleasure to Burn is the ideal companion to Bradbury’s great novel. Edited by Bradbury authority Donn Albright, this generous volume gathers 16 vintages stories and novellas. Some of the stories, such as ‘The Pedestrian’ and ‘Pillars of Fire,’ will be familiar to the author s long time fans. Others, such as ‘The Bonfire’ and ‘The Reincarnate,’ are more obscure. The true heart of the collection are the long novellas ‘Long after Midnight’ which has only appeared once in an expensive limited edition and the 25,000 word tale, ‘The Fireman,’ the immediate precursor to the final, full length novel. These independent, brilliantly original tales are a significant publishing event. Together, these stories chart the evolution of the images, ideas, and social concerns that found their purest, most potent expression in Fahrenheit 451. A Pleasure to Burn is at once surprising, illuminating, and hugely entertaining. Intended equally for scholars, aficionados, and casual readers, it is both an invaluable Bradbury sourcebook and a unique, intimate glimpse into the mysteries of the creative process.

Skeletons

Deluxe chapbook limited to 500 numbered copies.

The Homecoming

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 Veldt

The advanced technology of a house first pleases then increasingly terrifies its occupants.

A Sound of Thunder

With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades. This collection showcases thirty two of Bradbury’s most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly and possibly something else much closer to home…

Death Has Lost Its Charm For Me

A book of poems with photographs of cats, signed by Ray Bradbury

Fever Dream

A young boy’s illness comes alive taking over his body bit by bit until he dies but the virus remains alive in his body. A portion of each illustration glows in the dark.

Marionettes, Inc.

In Marionettes, Inc., Ray Bradbury offers his devoted readers something both special and unexpected: a unified view of one small corner of a varied fictional universe. In five stories one of them original to this collection, plus a rare, previously unpublished screen treatment, Bradbury explores the concept of Robotics and examines its impact on the day to day lives of ordinary people. Several of these tales, including Changeling and Punishment Without Crime, are set in a world in which the eponymous company, Marionettes, Inc., has successfully created incredibly detailed replicas of existing men and women. When these surrogate people take their place in the real, often messy realm of human relationships, the results are sometimes tragic, sometimes ironic, and always surprising. But the true heart of this resonant collection is the classic novella, I Sing the Body Electric. In this quintessential Bradbury story, an electric Grandma enters the lives of a grieving, newly motherless family, and slowly restores their capacity for wonder and joy. Like the very best of Bradbury’s fiction, it is a magical, deeply felt account of hope, growth, survival, and change, and a moving meditation on what it really means to be human.

Zen in the Art of Writing

The third edition of Bradbury’s much loved classic adds three new exuberant essays on the pleasures of writing from one of the most creative, imaginative, and prolific artists of the 20th century an author who truly enjoys his craft and tells you why and how.

Yestermorrow

Visionary writings from the protean Bradbury, America’s preeminent master of the fantastic who has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. Part memoir, part commentary, these writings are an exploration and celebration of ideas. Bradbury reflects on art, literature, history, architecture, science fiction, and the people who have influenced him.

Imagining Space: Achievements, Predictions, Possibilities 1950-2050

Space travel has gone from fantasy to reality in just fifty years where will we be fifty years from now? This breathtaking book follows our projections for space exploration in the 1950s to our actual accomplishments today and goes on to predict the spacecraft, commerce, ecology, and manned explorations yet to come in the next 50 years. Lavishly illustrated, with a visionary foreword by Ray Bradbury as well as an adventurous text by NASA’s chief historian and an expert on the U.S. space program, Imagining Space will inspire science fiction enthusiasts, pop culture fans, and anyone who has ever looked up at the stars in wonder.

Conversations with Ray Bradbury

BIOGRAPHY LITERARY CRITICISM This collection of interviews captures the imagination of the writer widely regarded as ‘the granddaddy of science fiction.’ However, Ray Bradbury considers Fahrenheit 451 to be his only science fiction novel and his others, including The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The Illustrated Man, to be more fantasy and horror than science fiction. Bradbury, born in 1920, began reading voraciously quite early. He enjoyed the pulp magazine Amazing Stories when it first appeared. He came to maturity just before World War II, when Na*zis were firing V 1 and V 2 rockets at Britain, and began writing fiction as the space age was coming to full stride. In addition to having a moon crater named in his honor, he has received science fiction’s Nebula Grandmaster Award for his lifetime achievements and in 2000 the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. ‘The writer’s vocabulary need not be extensive,’ Bradbury says. ‘He shouldn’t throw unusual words at the reader, but I do believe in using the right word. The reader should be given something more than the basic meaning by the use of words that are dynamic and colorful, that provide pictures for the reader.’ Since 1941, when Super Science Stories bought his first story, Bradbury has written and published hundreds of short stories, as well as novels, essays, dramas, operas, teleplays, poems, and screenplays. His film work in Ireland crafting the screenplay for John Huston’s Moby Dick in 1954 established Bradbury as a fixture in Hollywood. Versions of his works have been shown on all the major networks, and USA Network produced sixty five of his teleplays for The Ray Bradbury Theater. During his career Bradbury has given more than 300 interviews. The selection included in this volume begins in 1948, spans more than five decades, and charts Bradbury’s long creative life. A recent Ph.D. graduate from Florida State University, Steven Aggelis teaches at Tallahassee Community College.

Bradbury Speaks

From Publishers Weekly The grand master’s many fans will delight in behind the scenes stories about the creation of such science fiction classics as The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes which began as a film project for Gene Kelly, but that’s just one of Bradbury’s many facets on display in this collection of 37 essays. We also learn about his encounters with famous men, from Walt Disney to Bertrand Russell; adventures in Hollywood; and even his love for going out in the rain. Some of these stories may be familiar, and some are told twice, but Bradbury’s friendly, conversational tone always makes them worth hearing again. The tale of how he overcame his fear of flying especially benefits from the jocular narration. Some of the essays haven’t been seen in decades, like an introduction to a paperback edition of Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which cleverly juxtaposes captains Nemo and Ahab, and a dozen are being published for the first time. Whether Bradbury is talking about cross country train trips or manned flight to Mars, his enthusiasm remains as contagious as ever. The intimate connection many readers already feel through Bradbury’s fiction will be strengthened by these highly personal reminiscences. Aug.

Match to Flame

Ray Bradbury didn’t sit one down day and decide to write his classic novel Fahrenheit 451. As with Something Wicked This Way Comes Bradbury’s tale of censorship had its roots years earlier in at least 9 short stories or novellas. While published in 1953 the genesis of F 451 can be traced back to 1944. Over the next several years Bradbury tinkered with the idea in a number of short stories a few that have been collected a number of times, some that appeared just once and others that have remained unpublished…
Until now.

Gauntlet’s upcoming Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths of Fahrenheit 451 traces the roots of F 451 in Bradbury’s earlier fiction. Edited by Donn Albright, the book is a must for those who have marveled at F 451. The centerpiece of the book, is of course, ‘The Fireman’ a novella published in Galaxy 51 1951. Copies of Galaxy 51 on eBay when they appear sell for $150 and up.

Signed by Bradbury, this is bound to become one of his classics both for scholars looking into the history of F 451, collectors interested in obscure and unpublished Bradbury material that will not see publication anywhere else, and readers of great fiction. The Lettered edition, as always, will contain a wealth of additional material including the previously unpublished short story ‘The Castle.’

Listen to the Echoes

A definitive collection of interviews with one of America’s most famous writers, covering his life, faith, friends, politics, and visions of the future. Ray Bradbury, the poetic and visionary author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, is one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. From Mikhail Gorbachev to Alfred Hitchcock to David Bowie, Bradbury’s sway on contemporary culture is towering. Acclaimed biographer and Bradbury scholar Sam Weller has spent more than a decade interviewing the author; the fascinating conversations that emerge cast a high definition portrait of a creative genius and a futurist who longs for yesterday. Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews is the definitive collection of interviews with an American icon.

Kaleidoscope

Audio Cassette, Durkin Hayes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Go Bump in the Night (By:)

Published by Random House. Per the dust jacket:…
twenty three stories, a novelette, and a novel guaranteed to turn your hair white overnight.’ Stories selected by Mr. Hitchcock include: Casablanca by Thomas M. Disch, Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb, Camera Obscura by Basil Copper, A Death in the Family by Miriam Allen deFord, Men Without Bones by Gerald Kersh, Not With a Bang by Damon Knight, Party Games by John Burke, X Marks the Pedwalk by Fritz Leiber, Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond by Nugent Barker, Two Spinsters by E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Knife by Robert Arthur, The Cage by Ray Russell, It by Theodore Sturgeon, The Road to Mictlantecutli by Adobe James, Guide to Doom by Ellis Peters, The Estuary by Margaret St. Clair, Tough Town by William Sambrot, The Troll by T. H. White, Evening at the Black House by Robert Somerlott, One of the Dead by William Wood, The Real Thing by Robert Specht, Journey to Death by Donald E. Westlake, Master of the Hounds by Algis Budrys, The Candidate by Henry Slesar, and Out of the Deeps by John Wyndham.

Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV (By:)

Published by Random House. Per the dust jacket:…
twenty three stories, a novelette, and a novel guaranteed to turn your hair white overnight.’ Stories selected by Mr. Hitchcock include: Casablanca by Thomas M. Disch, Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb, Camera Obscura by Basil Copper, A Death in the Family by Miriam Allen deFord, Men Without Bones by Gerald Kersh, Not With a Bang by Damon Knight, Party Games by John Burke, X Marks the Pedwalk by Fritz Leiber, Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond by Nugent Barker, Two Spinsters by E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Knife by Robert Arthur, The Cage by Ray Russell, It by Theodore Sturgeon, The Road to Mictlantecutli by Adobe James, Guide to Doom by Ellis Peters, The Estuary by Margaret St. Clair, Tough Town by William Sambrot, The Troll by T. H. White, Evening at the Black House by Robert Somerlott, One of the Dead by William Wood, The Real Thing by Robert Specht, Journey to Death by Donald E. Westlake, Master of the Hounds by Algis Budrys, The Candidate by Henry Slesar, and Out of the Deeps by John Wyndham.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn’t Let Me Do on TV (With: Robert Bloch,,Robert Arthur,,Roald Dahl,,,,,,,James Francis Dwyer)

Published by Random House. Per the dust jacket:…
twenty three stories, a novelette, and a novel guaranteed to turn your hair white overnight.’ Stories selected by Mr. Hitchcock include: Casablanca by Thomas M. Disch, Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb, Camera Obscura by Basil Copper, A Death in the Family by Miriam Allen deFord, Men Without Bones by Gerald Kersh, Not With a Bang by Damon Knight, Party Games by John Burke, X Marks the Pedwalk by Fritz Leiber, Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond by Nugent Barker, Two Spinsters by E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Knife by Robert Arthur, The Cage by Ray Russell, It by Theodore Sturgeon, The Road to Mictlantecutli by Adobe James, Guide to Doom by Ellis Peters, The Estuary by Margaret St. Clair, Tough Town by William Sambrot, The Troll by T. H. White, Evening at the Black House by Robert Somerlott, One of the Dead by William Wood, The Real Thing by Robert Specht, Journey to Death by Donald E. Westlake, Master of the Hounds by Algis Budrys, The Candidate by Henry Slesar, and Out of the Deeps by John Wyndham.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Master’s Choice. (By:)

Published by Random House. Per the dust jacket:…
twenty three stories, a novelette, and a novel guaranteed to turn your hair white overnight.’ Stories selected by Mr. Hitchcock include: Casablanca by Thomas M. Disch, Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb, Camera Obscura by Basil Copper, A Death in the Family by Miriam Allen deFord, Men Without Bones by Gerald Kersh, Not With a Bang by Damon Knight, Party Games by John Burke, X Marks the Pedwalk by Fritz Leiber, Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond by Nugent Barker, Two Spinsters by E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Knife by Robert Arthur, The Cage by Ray Russell, It by Theodore Sturgeon, The Road to Mictlantecutli by Adobe James, Guide to Doom by Ellis Peters, The Estuary by Margaret St. Clair, Tough Town by William Sambrot, The Troll by T. H. White, Evening at the Black House by Robert Somerlott, One of the Dead by William Wood, The Real Thing by Robert Specht, Journey to Death by Donald E. Westlake, Master of the Hounds by Algis Budrys, The Candidate by Henry Slesar, and Out of the Deeps by John Wyndham.

Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation (With: )

Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn em to ashes, then burn the ashes. For Guy Montag, a career fireman for whom kerosene is perfume, this is not just an official slogan. It is a mantra, a duty, a way of life in a tightly monitored world where thinking is dangerous and books are forbidden. In 1953, Ray Bradbury envisioned one of the world’s most unforgettable dystopian futures, and in Ray Bradbury s Fahrenheit 451, the artist Tim Hamilton translates this frightening modern masterpiece into a gorgeously imagined graphic novel. As could only occur with Bradbury s full cooperation in this authorized adaptation, Hamilton has created a striking work of art that uniquely captures Montag s awakening to the evil of government controlled thought and the inestimable value of philosophy, theology, and literature. Including an original foreword by Ray Bradbury and fully depicting the brilliance and force of his canonic and beloved masterwork, Ray Bradbury s Fahrenheit 451 is an exceptional, haunting work of graphic literature.

Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World’s Greatest Horror Writers

In a truly distinguished collection of twenty superb, sublimely dark tales written especially for this volume, such acknowledged contemporary masters of horror fiction as Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Ramsey Campbell, Nancy Holder, Richard Laymon, Brian Lumley, Joe Lansdale, Whitley Streiber, F. Paul Wilson, and Chelsea Quinn Yarboro serve up a veritable feast of fear. For the first time ever, Dark Delicacies, the world’s foremost horror bookstore, lends its famous name and imprimatur to an anthology designed to please the palate of the genre s most discriminating fans. Throughout, the editors Del Howison co owner of Dark Delicacies and leading horror anthologist Jeff Gelb present perfectly crafted, freshly original horror fiction fare that is as terrifying as it is chillingly delicious.

Dark Delicacies II: Fear

In a second distinguished collection of twenty superb, sublimely dark tales written especially for this volume, such acknowledged contemporary masters of horror fiction as Barbara Hambly, John Farris, James Sallis, Steve Niles, Tananarive Due, L. A. Banks, and Gary Brandner serve up a veritable feast of fear. For the second time, Dark Delicacies, the world’s foremost horror bookstore, lends its famous name and imprimatur to an anthology designed to please the palate of the genre’s most discriminating fans. Throughout, the editors Del Howison co owner of Dark Delicacies and leading horror anthologist Jeff Gelb present perfectly crafted, freshly original horror fiction fare that is as terrifying as it is chillingly delicious.

Dark Delicacies III: Haunted

A stellar cast of horror writers comprise this third entry in the Dark Delicacies anthology series. These twenty one short works will examine and lay bare all the ways in which we are haunted both literally and figuratively. With a new novella from David Morrell and a short story Chuck Palahniuk is writing as a teaching class on his blog, interest in this anthology will prove that the third time is no trick and all treat! Includes contributions from: Kevin J. Anderson Clive Barker Michael Boatman Heather Graham Richard Christian Matheson David Morrell Chuck Palahniuk Victor Salva And many more!

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me

Published by Random House. Per the dust jacket:…
twenty three stories, a novelette, and a novel guaranteed to turn your hair white overnight.’ Stories selected by Mr. Hitchcock include: Casablanca by Thomas M. Disch, Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb, Camera Obscura by Basil Copper, A Death in the Family by Miriam Allen deFord, Men Without Bones by Gerald Kersh, Not With a Bang by Damon Knight, Party Games by John Burke, X Marks the Pedwalk by Fritz Leiber, Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond by Nugent Barker, Two Spinsters by E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Knife by Robert Arthur, The Cage by Ray Russell, It by Theodore Sturgeon, The Road to Mictlantecutli by Adobe James, Guide to Doom by Ellis Peters, The Estuary by Margaret St. Clair, Tough Town by William Sambrot, The Troll by T. H. White, Evening at the Black House by Robert Somerlott, One of the Dead by William Wood, The Real Thing by Robert Specht, Journey to Death by Donald E. Westlake, Master of the Hounds by Algis Budrys, The Candidate by Henry Slesar, and Out of the Deeps by John Wyndham.

Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror

This is the ultimate feast of fear by a host of horror writers such as Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Ramsey Campbell, and others. Twenty four macabre tales include the nerve twisting novelette The Mist by Stephen King. Previously published in mass market by Bantam.

The Horror Hall of Fame

18 great tales, classics of the genre. Includes: The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe; Green Tea, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; The Damned Thing, by Ambrose Bierce; The Yellow Sign, by Robert W. Chambers; The Monkey’s Paw, by W. W. Jacobs; The White People, by Arthur Machen; The Willows, by Algernon Blackwood; Casting the Runes, by M. R. James; The Graveyard Rats, by Henry Kuttner; Pigeons from Hell, by Robert E. Howard; It, by Theodore Sturgeon; Smoke Ghost, by Fritz Leiber; Yours Truly Jack the Ripper, by Robert Bloch; The Small Assassin, by Ray Bradbury; The Whimper of Whipped Dogs, by Harlan Ellison; Calling Card, by Ramsey Campbell; Coin of the Realm nominated, 1982 World Fantasy Award, by Charles L. Grant; The Reach Do the Dead Sing? winner, 1982 World Fantasy Award, by Stephen King.

Time Machines

The notion of traveling forward or backward across history changing the events of your own life or those which came before you or those that have yet to occur starts here with Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Three Sundays in a Week’ and Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Wireless,’ progresses through the years with past masters Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and John W. Campbell, Jr., and finishes with contemporary science fiction by such writers as Larry Niven, Harry Turtledove, Jack Finney, and Rod Serling. ‘An interesting collection of time travel short fiction from varied perspectives’ Library Journal

A Magic-Lover’s Treasury of the Fantastic

In this text Margaret Weis has gathered together a collection of twenty fantasy stories by top authors including Ray Bradbury, Katherine Kurtz and Jack Vance.

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection

Culled from the best of a wide variety of sources, this eleventh annual collection of fantasy fiction features contributions by Kim Newman, Joyce Carol Oates, Ellen Kushner, Jack Womack, Karen Joy Fowler, and others.

The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology

Since its founding, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has been acclaimed as one of the pinnacles of the field, the source of fantastic fiction of the highest literary quality. Now the magazine known to its readers as ‘F&SF’ celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a spectacular anthology of the best recent work from the magazine. Included are stories from major writers like Bruce Sterling, John Crowley, and Harlan Ellison. Also here are award winners like Ursula K. Le Guin’s Nebula winning ‘Solitude,’ Maureen F. McHugh’s Hugo winning ‘The Lincoln Train,’ and Elizabeth Hand’s Nebula and World Fantasy Award winning ‘Last Summer at Mars Hill.’The fiftieth anniversary collection for the most distinguished magazine of the science fiction and fantasy world. Contributors include:Dale BaileyTerry BissonMichael BlumleinRay BradburyJohn CrowleyBradley DentonPaul Di FilippoS.N. DyerHarlan EllisonEsther M. FriesnerElizabeth HandTanith LeeUrsula K. Le GuinMaureen F. McHughRachel PollackRobert ReedBruce Holland RogersBruce SterlingRay VukcevichKate WilhelmGene Wolfe

October Dreams

Classic novellas, never before published stories, essays on the history, literature, and films of Halloween, and real life memories of October 31st from today’s best practitioners of fear: Dean Koontz Peter Straub Poppy Z. Brite Rick Hautala Steve Rasnic Tem Elizabeth Engstrom Thomas Ligotti Gary A. Braunbeck Jack Ketchum Thomas F. Monteleone Hugh B. Cave Simon Clark Christopher Golden Ray Bradbury Jack Ketchum Alan M. Clark Gahan Wilson Paula Guran John Shirley Tom Piccirilli Jack Cady David B. Silva Robert Morrish William F. Nolan Michael Cadnum Richard Laymon Douglas Clegg Douglas E. Winter Stanley Wiater Caitl n R. Kiernan Lewis Shiner Yvonne Navarro Tim Lebbon Kim Newman F. Paul Wilson Owl Goingback Dennis Etchison Stephen Mark Rainey Charles L. Grant Kelly Laymon Dominick Cancilla Kristine Kathryn Rusch Michael Marshall Smith Wayne Allen Sallee Ramsey Campbell Ed Gorman Stefan Dziemianowicz Peter Crowther

Masques V

This is the last book in the acclaimed Masques series, edited by Jerry Williamson. Before Williamson fell ill he assembled 90 of the contents. Gary Braunbeck is co editing Masques V. A number of authors have provided stories as a tribute to Jerry, including Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Ray Garton, Poppy Z. Brite, Jack Ketchum, Richard Christian Matheson, William Nolan, Tom Monteleone, Gary Braunbeck and Barry Hoffman. Clive Barker is providing the cover art and signing all editions, along with a fronticepiece for the Lettered edition only which must be ordered through Gauntlet Press directly. The Lettered edition has a second, alternate version of Ray Bradbury’s story, along with a hand written note telling the origin of the story. Richard Christian Matheson also provides three early drafts of his story with handwritten corrections. Matheson and Bradbury are signing only the Lettered edition, and Jerry Williamson signed both the Numbered and the Lettered before he passed away. Masques V was a labor of love for Jerry Williamson, who died on December 8th, 2005. As his health began to fail him, he was overwhelmed by well known authors who without hesitation submitted stories as a tribute to Jerry. In a note to those whose work will appear in Masques V co editor Gary Braunbeck stated, ‘I think this will serve as a fine testament to Jerry’s memory.’

Halloween

Shivers and spirits…
the mystical and macabre…
our darkest fears and sweetest fantasies…
the fun and frivolity of tricks, treats, festivities, and masquerades. Halloween is a holiday filled with both delight and dread, beloved by youngsters and adults alike. Celebrate the most magical season of the year with this sensational treasury of seasonal tales spooky, suspenseful, terrifying, or teasing harvested from a multitude of master storytellers.

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years’ worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher’s guide at www. wesleyan. edu/wespress/sfanthologyguide accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world’s most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.

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