The Stories of Ray Bradbury (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)

One hundred of Ray Bradburys remarkable stories which have, together with his classic novels, earned him an immense international audience and his place among the most imaginative and enduring writers of our time.

Here are the Martian stories, tales that vividly animate the red planet, with its brittle cities and double-mooned sky. Here are the stories that speak of a special nostalgia for Green Town, Illinois, the perfect setting for a seemingly cloudless childhood—except for the unknown terror lurking in the ravine. Here are the Irish stories and the Mexican stories, linked across their separate geographies by Bradburys astonishing inventiveness. Here, too, are thrilling, terrifying stories—including “The Veldt” and “The Fog Horn”—perfect for reading under the covers.

Read for the first time, these stories become as unshakable as ones own fantasies. Read again—and again—they reveal new, dazzling facets of the extraordinary art of Ray Bradbury.

This collection includes 100 of Ray Bradbury's remarkable stories which have, together with his classic novels, earned him an immense international audience.

Ray Bradbury has published more than five hundred works, including The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2004, and the National Book Foundations Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2000. He lives in Los Angeles.

Christopher Buckley is the author of fourteen books, including Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir. He is editor-at-large of ForbesLife Magazine.

The Night

Homecoming

Uncle Einar

The Traveler

The Lake

The Coffin

The Crowd

The Scythe

There Was an Old Woman

There Will Come Soft Rains

Mars Is Heaven

The Silent Towns

The Earth Men

The Off Season

The Million-Year Picnic

The Fox and the Forest

Kaleidoscope

The Rocket Man

Marionettes, Inc.

No Particular Night or Morning

The City

The Fire Balloons

The Last Night of the World

The Veldt

The Long Rain

The Great Fire

The Wilderness

A Sound of Thunder

The Murderer

The April Witch

Invisible Boy

The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind

The Fog Horn

The Big Black and White Game

Embroidery

The Golden Apples of the Sun

Powerhouse

Hail and Farewell

The Great Wide World Over There

The Playground

Skeleton

The Man Upstairs

Touched with Fire

The Emissary

The Jar

The Small Assassin

The Next in Line

Jack-in-the-Box

The Leave-Taking

Exorcism

The Happiness Machine

Calling Mexico

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed

The Strawberry Window

A Scent of Sarsaparilla

The Picasso Summer

The Day It Rained Forever

A Medicine for Melancholy

The Shore at Sunset

Fever Dream

The Town Where No One Got Off

All Summer in a Day

Frost and Fire

The Anthem Sprinters

And So Died Riabouchinska

Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!

The Vacation

The Illustrated Woman

Some Live Like Lazarus

The Best of All Possible Worlds

The One Who Waits

Tyrannosaurus Rex

The Screaming Woman

The Terrible Conflagration up at the Place

Night Call, Collect

The Tombling Day

The Haunting of the New

Tomorrow’s Child

I Sing the Body Electric!

The Women

The Inspiried Chicken Motel

Yes, We’ll Gather at the River

Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You!

A Story of Love

The Parrot Who Met Papa

The October Game

Punishment Without Crime

A Piece of Wood

The Blue Bottle

Long After Midnight

The Utterly Perfect Murder

The Better Part of Wisdom

Interval in Sunlight

The Black Ferris

Farewell Summer

McGillahee’s Brat

The Aqueduct

Gotcha!

The End of the Beginning