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Something Wicked This Way Comes

By Ray Bradbury
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Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury is a dark fantasy novel set in Green Town, Illinois, where the sinister Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show arrives just before Halloween. Two boys become entangled in the carnival's eerie enchantments and discover the terrible cost of their deepest wishes. A tale of friendship, fear, and the struggle between good and evil, it blends poetic suspense with timeless themes.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers who enjoy atmospheric, suspenseful fantasy and classic American literature. Suited to those who appreciate dark, imaginative storytelling with themes of childhood, temptation, and the supernatural.

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Two boys' lives are changed forever when a sinister travelling carnival stops at their Illinois town.

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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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781501167713

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 October 2017

Imprint: Simon & Schuster

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 137.0mm

Height: 208.0mm

Weight: 295g

Pages: 352

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Classic Fiction Crime & Thriller Fantasy Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Ray Bradbury Sci-Fi & Fantasy Science Fiction Spy & Espionage Thriller

About the Author

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston's Moby Dick and the Emmy Award-winning teleplay The Halloween Tree, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for The Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors.

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