Something Wicked This Way Comes - Signed Limited Edition

Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes. Centipede Press, USA, 2020. First appearing as the short story “The Black Ferris” in the May 1948 issue of Weird Tales, accompanied by a suitably gruesome illustration by Lee Brown Coye, Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes went through an intermediate stage as an unproduced screen treatment for Gene Kelly in 1955 before the author expanded it into the novel published by Simon & Schuster in 1962. If Bradbury’s 1957 novel Dandelion Wine is the summer panel in the author’s nostalgic portrait of childhood in small-town America, Something Wicked This Way Comes may be considered its darker autumnal counterpart. The magic that had imbued everyday life in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois in the earlier episodic novel here becomes incarnate in the shape of Mr. Dark and his carnival; but all these new marvels cast shadows, teasing at innocence while attempting to corrupt it, and promising wonders that take morality and morta