num_pages: 215
description: 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 &amp; 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.
language: English
title: Something Wicked This Way Comes
titlecomplete: Something Wicked This Way Comes
characters: William Halloway, Mr Cooger, Willa Foley, Crosetti, James Nightshade, Mr Tetley, Charles Halloway, Tom Fury, Mr Dark
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Halloween, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Horror, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 126227
places: Green Town, Illinois
series: Green Town, Ray Bradbury Graphic Novels
publisher: Bantam Books, Inc.