Question: Who was an american author and screenwriter who wrote Something Wicked This Way Comes?
Context: Alive in Athens is a live album by American heavy metal band Iced Earth.  It was recorded on the nights of January 23 and January 24, 1999 in front of sold out crowds of approximately 2000 people (on both nights) at the Rodon Club in Athens, Greece.  Iced Earth was supporting the "Something Wicked This Way Comes" album and were on tour.  It was turned into a single DVD, and released in October 2006.  The album features the return of former drummer Brent Smedley, who did not record on the band's previous album. Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1983 American horror fantasy film directed by Jack Clayton and produced by Walt Disney Productions from a screenplay written by Ray Bradbury, based on his novel of the same name.  The novel's title was taken directly from a line in Act IV of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth": "By the pricking of my thumbs / Something wicked this way comes."  The film stars Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, and Pam Grier.  It was shot in Vermont and at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.  The film had a troubled production – Clayton fell out with Bradbury over an uncredited script rewrite, and after test screenings of the director's cut failed to meet the studio's expectations, Disney sidelined Clayton, fired the original editor, and scrapped the original score, spending some $5 million and many months re-shooting, re-editing and re-scoring the film, before its eventual release. Overture of the Wicked is an EP by Iced Earth, which was released on June 4, 2007 in Europe and June 5, 2007 in the US.  The EP features the band's new single "Ten Thousand Strong" which was recorded for the new album released later that same year "", as well as a rerecording of the original "Something Wicked" song cycle (from the album "Something Wicked This Way Comes").  The re-recorded tracks are also slightly rearranged, with the piano intro to "The Coming Curse" notably absent in the new version.  This EP was reissued as part of Iced Earth's Box of the Wicked collection. Carnival Arcane is the 14th album by dark ambient band Midnight Syndicate, released in 2011.  The theme of the CD surrounds a fictional turn of the century traveling circus called The Lancaster Rigby Carnival.  The CD was inspired by research into carnivals of that time period and Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes".  It features voiceovers by actor, Jason Carter.  In 2012, the album won the Best CD category in the 2012 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards. "Something Wicca This Way Comes" is the first episode of the television series "Charmed", which was broadcast on The WB on October 7, 1998.  This is the second and only aired pilot for the series.  The original pilot never made it to air and was shot in the actual manor that is shown on the show.  After Lori Rom quit "Charmed", executive producer Aaron Spelling asked Alyssa Milano, whom he knew from "Melrose Place", to be her replacement and the show moved to a sound studio.  "Something Wicca This Way Comes" was the highest rated episode of "Charmed" in the entire series.  It was watched by 7.7 million viewers and broke the record for the highest-rated premiere episode in The WB's three-year history.  The name of this episode is a play on words from Shakespeare's "Macbeth": "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.  He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction. Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1962 dark fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury.  It is about 13-year-old best friends, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, and their nightmarish experience with a traveling carnival that comes to their Midwestern town one October, and how the boys learn about combatting fear.  The carnival's leader is the mysterious "Mr. Dark" who seemingly wields the power to grant the citizenry's secret desires.  In reality, Dark is a malevolent being who, like the carnival, live off the life force of those they enslave.  Mr. Dark's presence is countered by that of Will's father, Charles Halloway, who harbors his own secret fear of growing older because he feels he is too old to be Will's dad. Bruce M. "Bear" Fischer (born March 20, 1936) is an American actor, best known for playing the prisoner and rapist "Wolf Grace", in the 1979 film, "Escape from Alcatraz".  Fischer also played a rapist in Clint Eastwood's "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976), and Mr. Coogar in the film "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (1983).  His other film credits include "The Journey of Natty Gann" (1985) and "Grim Prairie Tales" (1990) as an undead gunman.  In addition Fischer was one of the Beauregard Brothers on TV's Dukes of Hazzard. "Something Wicked This Way Comes" is the sixth episode in season two of the dramedy series "Ugly Betty", and the 29th episode in the series, which aired on November 1, 2007.  The episode was written by Henry Alonso Myers and directed by Wendey Stanzler.  The episode takes its title from the phrase "something wicked this way comes", as well as the fact that this episode features the popular Broadway musical "Wicked" as a date venue. Framing Armageddon: Something Wicked Part 1 is the eighth studio album from Iced Earth, released on September 11, 2007.  It is part one of two concept albums based on a trilogy of songs from Iced Earth's fifth studio album, "Something Wicked This Way Comes".  The saga, aptly titled the Something Wicked Saga, tells the fictional history of mankind, from its creation to its destruction.  It is the second and final album with vocalist Tim "Ripper" Owens.
Answer: Ray Bradbury