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Something Wicked This Way Comes (Fantasy Masterworks) (Paperback)

by Ray Bradbury (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz; New edition edition (9 Mar 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 057507874X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575078741
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 194,535 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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, but everyone touched will be destroyed, for Mr Dark collects souls. 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 . . .


About the Author

Ray Bradbury has written more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, poems, television scripts - he exemplifies the writer's imagination at its most creative. His enormous contribution to literature has been recognised with numerous awards in almost every field, including the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Ray Bradbury lives in California.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrifying!, 29 Oct 2006
By kehs (Hertfordshire, England) - See all my reviews
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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
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Bradbury's Masterpiece, 8 Jun 2006
By E. Quintrell (London, England) - See all my reviews
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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...
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Dark Fantastique, 22 Nov 2004
This review is from: Something Wicked This Way Comes (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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4.0 out of 5 stars 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 10 days ago by L. Sleepa

5.0 out of 5 stars 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 4 months ago by Weave

5.0 out of 5 stars A Modern Masterpiece
This is Ray Bradbury's finest novel, a dark, nightmarish fantasy that thrilled me when I first read it back when I was around 13 and is absolutely the book that made me want to be... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mr. P. Caveney

5.0 out of 5 stars Great!
One of the great classics, the literature used in this novel is superb! I'm only half way through but i thought... Heck! I'll write one now! Read more
Published 12 months ago by Mr. Patrick J. Tutty

4.0 out of 5 stars Deadly Nightshade
I can understand the mixed reaction that this book has provoked. The story is wonderful, with a theme both elemental and mythical: in mid-century, mid-western America, a carnival... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Tony Floyd

1.0 out of 5 stars Boring
I brought this book because it's supposed to be a classic, and though the idea of an "evil carnival" seemed a bit cliche to me, I was hoping that the author would take the idea... Read more
Published 18 months ago by xenofan

5.0 out of 5 stars A beautifully detailed folk tale
Bradbury manages a neat trick in "Something Wicked", setting down rich, often incredibly beautiful prose whilst not letting the pace slacken a jot. Read more
Published on 29 Sep 2007 by DF

3.0 out of 5 stars Covert Fear Factor
When you buy a book with successive 5 star reviews, you expect a decent read. Unfortunately, with Amazon, the only people prone to review are those who either love or detest a... Read more
Published on 13 Jun 2007 by Mr. D. J. Read

5.0 out of 5 stars Scary
The first time (and admitedly I was quite young) I had this book read to me, I was terrified, awed and inspired by it. Read more
Published on 25 Mar 2004 by Ms. S. A. Marsden

3.0 out of 5 stars Bradbury's dark carnival reveals little magic to my eyes
I know that Something Wicked This Way Comes is a classic that many readers love, but I found the novel rather disappointing and can in all honesty only reward it with three stars... Read more
Published on 21 Aug 2003 by Daniel Jolley

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