One of our S5 students recently asked me for some Ray Bradbury books, and I discovered that although I believed we had lots in the library, actually we don’t – they must have gradually deteriorated, disappeared or become long overdue to students who have left the school. However the covers are much better on the new ones, so it’s probably a good thing that they needed to be replaced.
Something Wicked This Way Comes (the title is a quote from Macbeth) was one of the first adult novels I ever read. I thought it was science fiction, because of the library copy cover (which I think was the picture on the right), but the new cover (left) is a much better representation of the gothic horror that it actually is!
This is a book which will send shivers down your spine and which will immediately send you out to find everything else that Ray Bradbury wrote.
Blurb…
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…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…
My very favourite piece of Ray Bradbury writing is a short story called Zero Hour in The Illustrated Man – why not try it? It’s only fifteen pages long but you will remember it forever! You can find the Ray Bradbury books in the senior fiction section of the library.
