Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now featuring a new introduction and material about its longstanding influence on culture and genre.For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. A calliope’s shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes…and the stuff of nightmares.Few novels have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury’s unparalleled literary masterpiece Something Wicked This Way Comes. Scary and suspenseful, it is a timeless classic in the American canon.
I chose this book for two reasons: 1) I needed to fulfil the March Buzzwordathon 2025 prompt 2) the title borrows a line from the only Shakespeare play I ever enjoyed, Macbeth. ("Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.") So I wasn't really expecting much, but have been absolutely blown away by how this is written. It's complex and rich and later and nuanced. Brilliant, really.
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