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| Posted By : PaulMc - 4/19/2006 1:55 PM | 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
My Writings
The Tales of Doran Coyle
Contributing Editor, Sword and Sorcery.org |
| Posted By : Maraudar - 6/20/2006 6:08 PM | Wonderful story. I read this years ago in high school and loved. I saw the movie again recently and enjoyed that as well.
Maraudar |
| Posted By : Daniel - 6/20/2006 10:22 PM | A masterpiece!!!! One of my faves.....
Daniel
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| Posted By : Shade53 - 6/21/2006 10:24 AM | 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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| Posted By : ScrewMoonshine - 6/23/2006 11:20 AM | 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 |
| Posted By : erazmus - 6/23/2006 9:12 PM | 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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