Something wicked this way comes

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Ray Bradbury: Something wicked this way comes (1991, Knopf, Distributed by Random House)

307 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 1991 by Knopf, Distributed by Random House.

ISBN:
978-0-394-53041-3
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Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury's unparalleled literary classic SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. 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.

The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. The shrill siren song of a calliope beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And 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 nightmare.

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Subjects

  • Boys -- Fiction
  • Male friendship -- Fiction
  • Fathers and sons -- Fiction
  • Carnival -- Fiction
  • Illinois -- Fiction