Internationally acclaimed with more than 5 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published nearly 50 years ago.

The system was simple.  Everyone understood it.  Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden.

Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires.  And he enjoyed his job.  He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames... never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid.  Then Guy met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think.  And Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do…

"Frightening in its implications... Mr. Bradbury's account of this insane world, which nears many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating."
- The New York Times

*** 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...