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Something Wicked This Way Comes [Paperback]

Ray Bradbury (Author)
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Publication Date: 21 Aug 2008

It's the week before Hallowe'en, and Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois. The siren song of the calliope entices all with promises of youth regained and dreams fulfilled . . .

And as two boys trembling on the brink of manhood set out to explore the mysteries of the dark carnival's smoke, mazes and mirrors, they will also discover the true price of innermost wishes . . .

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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz (21 Aug 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0575083069
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575083066
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,952 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"A master... Bradbury has a style all his own, much imitated but never matched."-- "Portland Oregonian --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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One of the Terror Eight titles: dark reads for hot summer nights!
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrifying! 29 Oct 2006
By kehs TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
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
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22 of 25 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Bradbury's Masterpiece 8 Jun 2006
By E. Quintrell
Format:Paperback
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...
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Dark Fantastique 22 Nov 2004
By Julian Middleton
Format:Paperback
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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5.0 out of 5 stars At last i have it
Had book years ago but lost it. Been looking to get it for ages. Brilliant. Great value and quick service.
Published 16 days ago by dianne l james
4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining book
Bought this after seeing a recommendation on the Guardian. I don't think Bradbury's style (at least in this book) is my cup of tea, but I rattled through it and it held my... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Tom W
4.0 out of 5 stars Dark Carnival Comes To Town
Saw this as a theatre production at Halloween several years ago. The novel is much more macabre, in an almost fairy-tale good-versus-evil sort of way. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Arachne202
2.0 out of 5 stars This style of writing is not for me.
I was really looking forward to this book, but sadly i gave up after 40 pages.

It felt like the author was getting poetry and fiction mixed up, and i found that it... Read more
Published 4 months ago by A. B. T
2.0 out of 5 stars A lot of hocus pocus?
Not quite sure what I was expecting here, having only read ( I think) 'The Illustrated Man' in my far-off youth; what I wanted was a creepy, thought-provoking novel about... Read more
Published 4 months ago by annwiddecombe
4.0 out of 5 stars Danse Macabre
Arguably the most beautifully written horror novel of the 20th century, Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes is less a grown up fairytale (the essence of gothic horror),... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Shepherd of Arcadia
1.0 out of 5 stars Rich prose poetic in presentation...not to my liking..
Maybe it is just that this book it's style, it's prose did not translate well for me here in the UK but I cannot understand the fascination with something I do not understand. Read more
Published 9 months ago by RT Twinem
5.0 out of 5 stars The Day I Killed Ray Bradbury
I was in my local Waterstones (again) when an amazing cover caught my eye. The neon green on black cover of this reissue certainly has appeal. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Quicksilver
5.0 out of 5 stars 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 11 months ago by C. S. Barlow
5.0 out of 5 stars 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 14 months ago by pol
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