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PaulMc
Adept

Date Joined May 2005
Total Posts : 992

Posted 4/19/2006 2:55 PM (GMT -4)

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.

Actually, I listened to an audio-book of the tale. It was fantastic. Bradbury borders on purple prose but if you take it as poetry in prose--which really comes out in the audio--it is just a stunning work that bristles with energy and enthusiasm from the first page to the last page. Is it horror? Is is dark fantasy? It is both and it is brilliant.

For actual print reading, I'm working on Eisenhorn, the Warhammer 40K omnibus. It's a rollicking good violent ride so far.

-- Paul McNamee

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The Tales of Doran Coyle
Contributing Editor, Sword and Sorcery.org

Maraudar
Stablehand

Date Joined Jun 2006
Total Posts : 14

Posted 6/20/2006 7:08 PM (GMT -4)

Wonderful story. I read this years ago in high school and loved. I saw the movie again recently and enjoyed that as well.

Maraudar

Daniel
Carl Jung's Waterboy

Date Joined Aug 2003
Total Posts : 4515

Posted 6/20/2006 11:22 PM (GMT -4)

A masterpiece!!!! One of my faves.....

Daniel

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Shade53
Acolyte

Date Joined Jan 2005
Total Posts : 225

Posted 6/21/2006 11:24 AM (GMT -4)

Makes taking my son to carnivals a bit difficult even now ;) That's when you know a tale is good - when 15 years later, out of the blue, the very sight of the traveling carnival sends shivers down your spine...

Overall - it's one of my favorite stories.

~S

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ScrewMoonshine
Adept

Date Joined Aug 2005
Total Posts : 862

Posted 6/23/2006 12:20 PM (GMT -4)

I read this less than a year ago myself. It is without a doubt one of the greatest fantasy novels of all time. Bradbury handles the poetic prose of beauty and horror with equal mastery, such that the story absolutely sucks you in. I don't think I've ever been so mesmerized by any other book.

And reading the last chapter of Part I before bedtime... **shiver** Don't expect pleasant dreams after that!

Robert Orme

Out now: "Such Dreams" in Amazing Journeys Magazine #12

erazmus
Master

Date Joined Jul 2005
Total Posts : 4503

Posted 6/23/2006 10:12 PM (GMT -4)

I think that, even if he had never written anything else, this one would have immortalized Bradbury as a master of Fantasy, Horror, and a primary innovator of the slippery catagory of Dark Fantasy. He owns wicked carnivals, man. Nobody else can use them without evoking Bradbury and _Wicked . . ._.
I think this one is one of the top horror/dark fantasy novels of all time.
I'm going to dig out and reread my copy.
Mike

Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
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"Two Ravens" in Amazing Journeys Magazine #9 Sept. 05
"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises

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