The Bradbury Chronicles (51 page)

In this 2004 collection, Ray Bradbury presents twenty-two new and amazing tales, all but two never before published.

DANDELION WINE

The author's most deeply personal work,
Dandelion Wine
is a semiautobiographical recollection of a magical small town summer in 1928.

DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS

Ray Bradbury dips his pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir to create a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set in Venice, California, in the early 1950s.

DRIVING BLIND

Driving Blind
is a stunning collection of short fiction. Here are unforgettable excursions to the fantastic, glorious grand tours through time and memory, unexpected side trips to the disturbing and eerie.

FROM THE DUST RETURNED

In an extraordinary flight of the imagination a half-century in the making, Ray Bradbury takes us to a most wondrous destination: into the heart of an Eternal Family.

A GRAVEYARD FOR LUNATICS

Halloween night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous invitation leads him from the studio's back lot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall.

GREEN SHADOWS, WHITE WHALE

In this comic autobiographical novel, Ray Bradbury recounts his unexpected odyssey through Ireland, where, in 1953, he was summoned by famed director John Huston to write a screenplay for
Moby Dick.

I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC!

Each of these twenty-eight classic Bradbury stories (and one luscious poem) has something profound to tell us about our own humanity.

THE ILLUSTRATED MAN

The Illustrated Man
is widely believed to be one of Bradbury's premier accomplishments: eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny—a kaleidoscopic blending of magic, imagination, and truth.

LET'S ALL KILL CONSTANCE

On a dismal evening, a once-glamorous Hollywood star pounds on a writer's door. In her hands are two anonymously delivered books that have sent her running in fear: twin lists of the Tinsel town dead and soon-to-be dead… with her name among them.

THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES

Of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicles of Earth's settlement of the fourth world from the sun.
The Martian Chronicles
is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage.

A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY

Sinister mushrooms growing in a dank cellar. A family's first glimpse at Martians. A wonderful white vanilla ice-cream summer suit that changes everyone who wears it. All those images and many more appear in this trade edition of thirty-one classic Bradbury tales.