

His stories are so different from the next, you cannot help but wonder where the theme starts and ends until you realize it just is. Ray Bradbury’s The October Country eerily transcends any recycled sense of thematic bottom-feeding. Each story told has its own retelling of that same theme to the point of feeling redundant rather than revisited.


Short story collections embody a certain theme that almost sound the same as the ringing of a bell. Yes, that’s the way to put it: people who do things.” – Ray Bradbury, The October Country, “The Man Upstairs” You can’t heave them into categories with labels and say they’ll act one way or another. We don’t know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. “It’s poor judgement,” said Grandpa, “to call anything by a name. THE WONDERFUL DEATH OF DUDLEY STONE: a most remarkable case of murder - the deceased was delighted! And more! Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Author: Ray Bradbury Illustrator: Joseph Mugnaini Publisher: Del Rey Books | Ballantine Books Published: 1955 (originally), 1996 Genres: Horror, Fantasy Pages: 336 THE EMISSARY: the faithful dog was the sick boy' s only connectioin with the world outside - and beyond.

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