Something Wicked This Way Comes
By Ray Bradbury
- Release Date: 2023-05-15
- Genre: Ghost Stories
Description
One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now featuring a new introduction and material about its longstanding influence on culture and genre.
For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. A calliope’s shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes…and the stuff of nightmares.
Few novels have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury’s unparalleled literary masterpiece Something Wicked This Way Comes. Scary and suspenseful, it is a timeless classic in the American canon.
Reviews
Beautiful book …. Terrible edition
1By Alliterative Plot DeviceI’ve read this book before and have loved it for decades. Haunting, poetic, it’s a masterpiece. Do yourself a favor, though, and don’t buy this digital edition. It’s riddled with typos and weird line breaks. I went with the cheapest edition and I regret it.Aged Like Milk
1By HAJS29It’s a shame that I really disliked this book as Bradbury is so well regarded. But the fact of the matter is, this was difficult for me to read. I found myself having to set up a daily page quota just to get it done, a tactic commonly applied to reading in my school days. Bradbury went for style over substance here, trying to entice readers with beautiful poem style literature without expanding on the plot or the characters. This resulted in a story that was extremely hard to follow due to the nature of the writing and an emotional payoff that simply isn’t worth the effort to read through. The story itself could have been a quick Halloween read, meaning it had potential, but the execution in my opinion was boring and downright annoying. Maybe it’s because this book was made for a different time, with a different audience in mind, but as opposed to aging like fine wine, this book has aged like milk. In essence, this is the kind of book that your middle school teacher would assign to read over the summer, and middle school teachers notoriously assign boring, hard to follow, books.Love his writing style
5By Johngalt60A great read. Best in quite some time.Great book
5By john favertudeAmazing.
