Description
Ray Bradbury's second short story collection is back in print, its chilling encounters with funhouse mirrors, parasitic accident-watchers, and strange poker chips intact. Both sides of Bradbury's vaunted childhood nostalgia are also on display, in the celebratory "Uncle Einar," and the haunting "The Lake," the latter a fine elegy to childhood loss. And has any writer anywhere ever made such good use of exclamation marks!?
Contents:
· The Dwarf
· The Next in Line
· The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse
· Skeleton
· The Jar
· The Lake
· The Emissary
· Touched with Fire [“Shopping for Death”]
· The Small Assassin
· The Crowd
· Jack-in-the-Box
· The Scythe
· Uncle Einar
· The Wind
· The Man Upstairs
· There Was an Old Woman
· The Cistern
· Homecoming
· The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone
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