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Something Wicked This Way Comes

78.6% complete
1962
1983
1 time
See 7
Prologue - Prologue
I - Arrivals
Chapters 1-24
II - Pursuits
Chapters 25-44
III - Departures
Chapters 45-54
Book Cover
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Copyright © 1962 by Ray Bradbury
With gratitude to
JENNET JOHNSON, who taught
me how to write the short story,
and to SNOW LONGLEY HOUSH,
who taught me poetry
at Los Angeles High School
a long time ago,
and to
JACK GUSS,
who helped with this novel
not so long ago
First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.
May contain spoilers
Then, as the moon watched, the three of them together left the wilderness behind and walked into the town.
Green Town, Illinois
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Added: 29-Dec-2002
Last Updated: 07-Mar-2023

Publications

 01-Apr-1972
Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Apr-1972
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$0.75
Pages*:
215
Catalog ID:
S3408
Read:
Once
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
542
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-553-03408-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-553-03408-0
Printing:
9
Country:
United States
Language:
English
*** A MASTERPIECE OF FANTASY ***
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

A chilling novel
of fascinating evil by
the author of
A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY
and THE ILLUSTRATED MAN

RAY BREADBURY

Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show crept into town late one night to the errie whine of a calliope.  In the fearful days that followed, a schoolteacher suddenly became a little girl, a rosy-cheeked boy became a wizened Methuselah, a full-grown man became a tiny dwarf.  It was Jim and Will, two thirteen-year-old school boys, who first stumbled onto the grisly secrets of the Show - the sinister merry-go-round, the wax museum of living people, the strange mirror that stole souls.  But it was not until they had actually become part of the evil seductions that they discovered the most awful secret of all...
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Notes and Comments:
Simon & Shuster ediotion September 1962
2nd printing September 1962
A small portion of this novel has appeared before in Mademoiselle
Bantam edition published September 1963
2nd printing March 1967
3rd printing May 1967
4th printing December 1967
5th printing August 1968
6th printing April 1969
7th printing Aptil 1970
8th printing
9th printing
Ninth printing based on printing history

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Author(s)

Ray Bradbury  
Birth: 22 Aug 1920 Waukegan, Illinois, USA
Death: 05 Jun 2012 Los Angeles, California, USA

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