Ray Bradbury

General Note: Fifteen stories in this collection were first published in 1948 by Arkham House under the title: Dark carnival.

Bradbury returns to Green Town, Illinois, in a generous collection of twenty-seven stories and vignettes, seventeen of which have never been published before.

A collection of twenty-three short stories by Ray Bradbury.

A lonely little boy who is afraid of the dark is introduced to a whole new world by a little girl named Dark.

The new collection contains 20 stories, including classics of the genre and rare, little-known gems such as the title story, Bradbury's first published mystery. A number of the stories were adapted by the author for his popular TV series, The Ray Bradbury Theater, and fans of Bradbury's work will recognize his touch with crime stories about circus sideshow performers and ventriloquists' dummies, sunken cathedrals, time travelers, and robots that look...

Twelve-year-old Ahmed, lost and alone in the vast desert, awakens the ancient god Gonn-Ben-Allah with his crying, and together the two embark on a night of spectacular, and for Ahmed, life-changing, adventures.