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"A master... Bradbury has a style all his own, much imitated but never matched."-- "Portland Oregonian
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One of the Terror Eight titles: dark reads for hot summer nights!
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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Ray Bradbury is perhaps most known for his science fiction, notably his collection of short stories "The Martian Chronicles", but "Something Wicked This Way Comes" remains his best regarded and most loved piece of work.
A clear (and acknowledged) influence on the work of Stephen King, this tale of an nightmarish carnival coming to town, and the two boys who stand against it, is one of the great American fantasy stories. Equally enchanting, terrifying and heartbreaking, this is one of those books that once read, is never forgotten.
Scandalously out of print until now, if you're a Ray Bradbury fan, then buy this immediately. If you like classic Stephen King, then buy this immediately. In fact, whatever your tastes, just get this book immediately. you won't regret it...
A clear (and acknowledged) influence on the work of Stephen King, this tale of an nightmarish carnival coming to town, and the two boys who stand against it, is one of the great American fantasy stories. Equally enchanting, terrifying and heartbreaking, this is one of those books that once read, is never forgotten.
Scandalously out of print until now, if you're a Ray Bradbury fan, then buy this immediately. If you like classic Stephen King, then buy this immediately. In fact, whatever your tastes, just get this book immediately. you won't regret it...
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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This is an enchanting and terrifying tale of a nightmarish carnival that comes to the town where two boys live. The two 13 year old boys are best friends who were born just minutes apart from each other at Halloween time.
The boys are excited about the carnival but things soon take on a terrifying twist when they discover the dark secret behind the carrousel. The ride can change a person's age. Ride it forward, and with each revolution you age one year. Ride it backwards, and you become younger. We hear how the boys have to do battle with evil, in order to save themselves from a horrific fate and I could really feel their terror as they tried to outwit the carnival owners. This book was a gripping page-turner that absolutely enthralled me. It is a book to be savored for the glorious prose that Bradbury skillfully uses and deserves to be read, and then read again
The boys are excited about the carnival but things soon take on a terrifying twist when they discover the dark secret behind the carrousel. The ride can change a person's age. Ride it forward, and with each revolution you age one year. Ride it backwards, and you become younger. We hear how the boys have to do battle with evil, in order to save themselves from a horrific fate and I could really feel their terror as they tried to outwit the carnival owners. This book was a gripping page-turner that absolutely enthralled me. It is a book to be savored for the glorious prose that Bradbury skillfully uses and deserves to be read, and then read again
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Technically speaking, his Fahrenheit 451 may be a better novel, but for me this later work represents Bradbury's imaginative and narrative powers at their peak. Two boys trembling on the edge of adolescence in a small Illinois town in the earlier part of the twentieth century are drawn into the mystery of the dark carnival that arrives in the depths of a summer night. Written in a vividly poetic - and occasional over the top - style, this rich fantasy explores the wild and magical dream that is childhood in Bradbury's fiction and its necessary rupturing by adult awareness, the inevitable loss of innocence that accompanies this and the suggestion that this process is one of corruption. Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show offers unwary customers their hearts' desires - only to horribly twist and distort them, in a way that paradoxically could never be in the 'real' world but only within the imaginative realm that children inhabit. Bradbury's narration is colourful and nostalgic, sentimental and richly descriptive as he unleashes his astonishing tale of wide-eyed youngsters, world-weary adults, freaks, nightmares, and gothic revelation. An impossible book to pin down, perhaps due to its own dreamlike structure and narrative, it surely contains the wonders of youth and horrors of maturity presented in Bradbury's fantastical symbolism, and as such represents his most vividly realised work.
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Still Wicked
This still satisfies, despite it's age. Not so much a horror, as a gently unsettling gem yet capable of evoking all those rose-tinted memories of later childhood. Read more
Published 2 days ago by C. S. Barlow
something wicked this way comes
I read this book in the 60s and have always told myself to read it again. Its absolutely mind bending. I will be sorry to finish it AGAIN!!!!! Read more
Published 2 months ago by pol
wicked
Bought this book for friends havng read i earlier in the year. Thought it was fabulous. A great tale of good v evil and a beautiful friendship between 2 boys. Couldn't put it down
Published 4 months ago by C. Byrne
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Heard part of this on Radio 4, and then bought the book. Great imagination, quite scary in places, and fast paced. it kept my interest and was well worth the read. Read more
Published 6 months ago by CHRISTINE CASEY
Wicked book!
A great novel - full of descriptive literature and a fantastically spooky plot.
Combines the normal everyday innocence of small town life with a sinister and deeper... Read more
Combines the normal everyday innocence of small town life with a sinister and deeper... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Gulliver
My favourite and my best...
One of my all-time favourite novels - even the thought of it sends shivers of pleasure down my spine, makes my scalp tingle and sends me off to my bookshelf in search of my fix of... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Maledicta
Fantastic book!
Another fantastic effort from Ray Bradbury, full of tension, excitement and wonderful language. The story itself is both terrifying and chilling. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Code Hero
simple but excellent
really enjoyed this...simple but effective story. It captures that great feeling of being young and matches it well with a dark story. Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2010 by forbesjr
Wicked story. Wickedly written.
Previous reviewers have covered most of what I would say, but I have to add that this is my third copy and umpteenth reading of this wonderfully absorbing, scary, dreamy, escapist... Read more
Published on 26 Oct 2009 by L. Sleepa
Another classic by Ray Bradbury
This was another gem of a book by Ray Bradbury, I really enjoyed it. 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' tells the story of Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade (I love Jim's surname),... Read more
Published on 22 Jun 2009 by Weave
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