A calliope’s shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. Despite the panicked orders from our chaperones to "look away, look away," I watched as rescuers pulled one of the bodies out.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.įor those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. A car had landed upside down in the water. I was headed to sleep-away camp when our bus came upon the scene of an accident. (I still do, in a way that's unbecoming a grown man, but I make no apologies for my faith, no sir.) In fact - and this is the hand-on-the-Bible truth - I was holding a paperback copy of The Shining when I first laid eyes on a dead body. I worshiped at the altar of Stephen King in those days. These were the miniature miracles of my 12-year-old life.
The promises of free candy and a good World Series. The first wisps of chimney smoke that wafted in the evening air. It was everything: The way the dying leaves clung to tree branches and crunched underfoot. Growing up in Connecticut, it always held a special place in my heart - "a rare month for boys," as Ray Bradbury begins Something Wicked This Way Comes.
I know it's strange to be thinking about October right now, but whenever I write, in a way that's always where I am. Seth Grahame-Smith is the author of Unholy Night. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Something Wicked This Way Comes Author Ray Bradbury
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