The Bradbury Chronicles (47 page)

House Un-American Activities Committee, 193–94, 199, 209, 234, 252

Housh, Snow Longley, 82, 83

“How I Wrote My Book” (Bradbury), 155–56

Hubbard, L. Ron, 85, 101–2

Huff, John, 63–66, 72

Hull, J. P., 15

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
(film), 27–28, 66, 77

Huston, John, 37, 161–62, 177–78, 183, 193, 234, 244, 300, 306

Moby Dick
and, 37, 210–12, 214–18, 220–32, 238, 239, 300, 306, 316, 325

RB's co-writer fracas with, 230–31

RB's revenge against, 312–13

as vicious practical joker, 223–28, 312

Huston, Walter (grandfather), 227

Huston, Walter Anthony (grandson), 220

Huxley, Aldous, 171–72, 174, 175, 207, 209, 232

 

“I, Rocket” (Bradbury), 116

Icarus Montgolfier Wright
(animated short), 264–66

“Icarus Montgolfier Wright” (Bradbury), 264

Illustrated Man, The
(Bradbury), 1, 33, 45, 54, 156, 166–71, 177, 181, 182, 248, 252, 279–80

assembly of, 166–69, 184

collaboration attempt for, 153–54

cover art of, 2, 3, 131, 316

narrative frame for, 170–71, 189

paperback edition of, 187, 203, 204, 285

publication of, 179, 184, 202

“Illustrated Man, The” (Bradbury), 169, 170

Illustrated Man, The
(film), 279–80

Imagination!,
87, 88, 92

“Impatient Gulliver Above Our Roofs, An” (Bradbury), 277–79

Infinite Horizons
(TV special), 299–300

“In a Season of Calm Weather” (Bradbury), 251, 280

“Injun Summer” (McCutcheon), 5

“Inspired Chicken Motel, The” (Bradbury), 61–62

“Interim” (Bradbury), 141

“Invisible Boy” (Bradbury), 124–25, 130, 135, 188

Invitation to the Dance
(film), 259

Ireland, 210, 212, 215, 219–27, 229, 232, 312, 316, 325

RB's nostalgia for, 239–40, 268

Ireland's Magic Company, 49

Irwin, James B., 284

“I See You Never” (Bradbury), 54, 112, 133, 146, 151–52, 188

Isherwood, Christopher, 164–65, 169–70, 172–75, 232

I Sing the Body Electric
(Bradbury), 61, 283–84, 302, 330

“I Sing the Body Electric” (teleplay), 261, 284, 302

Italy, 225, 228, 230, 231–33, 245, 246–47, 299

It Came from Outer Space
(film), 191–92, 259

“It's Not the Heat, It's the Hu …” (Bradbury), 102

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
(TV special), 285–86

 

“Jack-in-the-Box” (Bradbury), 144, 236

“Jar, The” (Bradbury), 120, 134

Jazz Age, 39–40, 41

Jerde, Jon, 291–93

Johnson, George Clayton, 264–66

Johnson, Jennet, 82, 239

Johnson, Lyndon, 289

Johnson, Ryerson, 119

Johnson, Wayne L., 53

Jones, Chuck, 285–87

Jones, Myrtle R., 95

“Just This Side of Byzantium” (Bradbury), 33, 52

 

Kachurka, Patrick, 321, 323, 326, 328, 331

“Kaleidoscope” (Bradbury), 166, 168, 186–87, 327

Karapetian, Gary, 315

Kauffmann, Stanley, 207–8, 214, 236

Keaton, Buster, 89

Kelly, Gene, 259–60, 304

KGAR (radio station), 64, 65–66, 162

“Killer, Come Back to Me” (Bradbury), 139

King, Helen, 153

King, Stephen, 153, 180

King Kong
(film), 66, 90

“King of the Gray Spaces” (Bradbury), 116

Kirschner, David, 316

Klynn, Herb, 264–65

Knight, Damon, 43

Kolsrud, Dan, 308

Kuttner, Henry, 86, 101, 104, 116

as RB's mentor, 103, 107, 109–10

Kyle, David A., 96

 

Labor Day weekend (1932), 54–60

“Lake, The” (Bradbury), 112–15, 118–20, 134, 137, 184

Lardner, Ring, 54

Larry King
(TV show), 303

“Last, the Very Last, The” (Bradbury), 241–42

Laughton, Charles, 269–70

Laurel, Stan, 71, 219–20, 295

“Laurel and Hardy Love Affair, The” (Bradbury), 295

“Lawns of Summer, The” (Bradbury), 240, 292

Lee, Harper, 209

Lee, Stan, 45

Leeds, Martin, 312

Le Guin, Ursula K., 39

Lerner, Alan Jay, 300–301

Let's All Kill Constance
(Bradbury), 322, 324–25, 326

“Let's Play Poison” (Bradbury), 141

libraries, 195, 290–91

RB's use of, 9, 42–43, 47–48, 91–92, 108–9, 120–21, 133, 198, 201, 205, 286, 324

Life,
256, 264, 276–79

“Lifeline” (Heinlein), 98

“Lifework of Juan Diaz, The” (Bradbury), 131

Lights Out
(TV show), 181

Lincoln, Abraham, 15, 19, 272

“Live forever,” 41, 56–59, 329–30

Lloyd, Norman, 237, 287–88

Loewe, Frederick, 300–301

London, 215, 217–18, 226, 227, 229–30, 246, 282–83, 292–93

“Lonely One, the,” 42

Long After Midnight
(Bradbury), 131, 259, 298

“Long Road to Mars, The” (Bradbury), 155

Look Homeward, Angel
(Wolfe), 92

“Lorelei of the Red Mist” (Brackett and Bradbury), 109

Los Angeles, Calif., 68–93, 98–112, 130–41, 143–48, 198–99

architecture and design in, 291–93

Fowler Brothers Bookstore in, 136–37

One Book, One City project in, 77–78

police in, 116–18, 199–200

“Ray Bradbury Day” in, 5

theaters in, 70–71, 271

Los Angeles High School, 25, 76, 80–84, 87

Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, 84–88, 91, 92, 98–101, 104–5, 107

Los Angeles Times Book Review,
298–99

Lovecraft, H. P., 99, 101, 103

Lovell, Jim, 276

Lowell, Percival, 158

 

McCarran, Patrick A., 194, 195

McCarran Act (1950), 194

McCarthy, Joseph, 17, 194–96, 202, 207, 209, 229, 234, 252

McClure, Anna, 138, 139, 148, 162

McClure, Lonal, 139, 141, 148, 162

McClure, Marguerite Susan,
see
Bradbury, Marguerite McClure

McColloch, Lydia V., 68

McCullers, Carson, 142

McCutcheon, John, 5

McGee, Marty, 250–51, 255

Machineries of Joy, The
(Bradbury), 268

McIlwraith, Dorothy, 120

Mademoiselle,
121, 124–25, 130, 135–36, 142, 144, 154, 322

Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy,
264, 265

magic, magicians, 41–42, 49–50, 56–59, 63, 84, 234, 267–68

“Maiden, The” (Bradbury), 141

Making of the African Queen, The
(Hepburn), 316

Maltin, Leonard, 294

Mañana Literary Society, 101–2

Maness, David, 277–79

Mantegna, Joe, 214

“Man Upstairs, The” (Bradbury), 34, 144

Mariano, Nicky, 232

Mars, 1, 7, 35, 103, 154–56, 158–59, 168, 181–82, 202, 203, 253

“Mars is Heaven” (“The Third Expedition”) (Bradbury), 179–80

Martian Chronicles, The
(Bradbury), 7, 35, 48, 54, 73, 146, 153, 155–62, 164–66, 168, 179, 184, 202–4, 252–55, 259, 290, 297, 330, 332

British edition of,
see
Silver Locusts, The

cutting of, 159, 161, 182

Heard and, 173, 175

influence of, 1, 38–39, 187, 213, 277, 292

introductions to, 203, 256

narrative thread of, 18, 155–59, 189, 202, 243

notes and outline for, 103, 155–56

publication of, 162, 164, 177, 182, 256

reviews of, 165, 169–70, 171

sales of, 284–85

screen adaptation considered for, 183, 210, 300–301

Sterling's stealing from, 253–54, 265

TV adaptation of, 301–2

Martin, Strother, 270

masks, Mexican, 131, 132, 151

Massari, Mark, 310–12

“Meadow, The” (Bradbury), 143, 151, 188, 270

Medicine for Melancholy, A
(Bradbury), 34, 251–52, 264, 280

Melville, Herman, 1, 37, 229, 264

“Merry-Go-Round” (Bradbury TV pilot), 259

mescaline, 175–76

Mexico, 124–31, 141, 291

MGM, 69, 178, 259, 286, 287

Miller, Ethel, 55

Miller, Ron, 309

“Million Year Picnic, The” (Bradbury), 154

“Miracle of Rare Device, A” (Bradbury teleplay), 255

“Miracles of Jamie, The” (Bradbury), 124–25, 298

Moberg, Arthurine, 49, 53, 68, 71

Moberg, Esther Marie,
see
Bradbury, Esther Marie Moberg

Moberg, Gustav, 16, 23

Moberg, Inar, 23–24, 49, 51, 53, 55, 68, 71–72, 141, 239

Moberg, Lester Thomas, 23, 55–60, 87

Moberg, Philip, 23

Moberg, Shirley, 55–56

Moberg, Signey, 23, 98

Moberg, Victoria, 23

Moberg, Vivian, 49, 51–52, 53, 58–59, 68

in California, 68, 71, 72

RB's relationship with, 53, 55–56, 64, 72