SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

Book number: 94424 Product format: Paperback Author: RAY BRADBURY

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'Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity.' 'Is Death important? No. everything that happens before Death is what counts.' 'Evil has only the power that we give it. I give you nothing. I take back. Starve. Starve. Starve.' For over 70 years Ray Bradbury inspired generations of readers to dream, think and create with his close to 50 books. Now reprinted in this Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks paperback with an introduction by Michael Dirda, we can enjoy once again Bradbury's most poignant evocation of the hopes and frustrations of smalltown life, in a timeless rite-of-passage book. It's the week before Halloween, 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. As the 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. The novel describes late October so well you can almost smell the woodsmoke and Mr Dark is the perfect villain among the assorted freaks of the carnival and the menagerie of ghouls. 262pp, paperback.

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