Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
In a future where books are illegal and independent thought suppressed, a fireman whose job is to burn forbidden literature starts to question everything after meeting a free-spirited young woman.
Humanity's dreams and fears meet the ancient, psychic world of Mars, as Earth's settlers colonize a planet that reflects their deepest desires and anxieties.
When a sinister carnival visits their quiet town, two young boys must confront its dark magic and the terrible cost of their deepest desires before it consumes everything.
A nameless narrator encounters a mysterious wanderer whose animated tattoos unfurl eighteen chilling tales of humanity's future, from virtual reality gone awry to the poignant final moments of stranded astronauts.
In the summer of 1928, twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding learns about life, death, and the temporary beauty of existence amidst the sun-drenched lawns and dandelion-filled days of his small Illinois town.
On a Halloween night, a mysterious figure guides eight boys on a fantastical, time-traveling quest across ancient civilizations to rescue their friend Pipkin and find out about the history of Halloween.
A carnival of the macabre, where funhouse mirrors show parasitic observers, poker chips whisper dark secrets, and childhood nostalgia is both celebrated and mourned in chilling tales.
This collection of Bradbury's imaginative tales takes readers into a world where time travel shatters history, ancient sea monsters seek companionship, and the human spirit faces wonder and terror among the stars and in everyday life.
In a house where every whim is satisfied by intelligent machines, two children's innocent fascination with an African veldt simulation morphs into a chilling, predatory reality that blurs the line between play and primal instinct.
Ray Bradbury's collection of seventeen stories takes readers from the dawn of time to the distant future, where rockets fly and people face both wonder and the strange.
In a town where summer stubbornly clings to October, a fantastical civil war ignites between the young and the old, as thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding leads his peers in a desperate, magical fight against the inevitable march of time and the encroaching mysteries of adulthood.
In 1950s Venice, California, a writer's imagination blurs with reality as accidents plague his friends, forcing him to solve a series of events tied to his own creative power.
In a post-human world, a fully automated house meticulously carries out its daily routines, oblivious to the nuclear annihilation that has silenced its inhabitants, painting a poignant portrait of technology's enduring, yet ultimately futile, devotion.
