The remaining five are collected here for the first. Ray Bradbury's The October Country is a land of metaphors that can chill like a long-after-midnight wind.as they lift the reader high above a sleeping Earth on the strange wings of Uncle Einar. The October Country consists of nineteen stories, fourteen of them reworked versions of stories originally collected in Dark Carnival (1947). But there is astonishing beauty in these shadows, born from a prose that enchants and enthralls. THE WONDERFUL DEATH OF DUDLEY STONE: a most. Each of these stories is a wonder, imagined by an acclaimed tale-teller writing from a place shadows. THE EMISSARY: the faithful dog was the sick boys only connectioin with the world outside - and beyond. Here there is no escaping the dark stranger who lives upstairs.or the reaper who wields the world. Here a glass jar can hold memories and nightmares a woman's newborn child can plot murder and a man's skeleton can war against him. The October Country's inhabitants live, dream, work, die-and sometimes live again-discovering, often too late, the high price of citizenship. The October Country is many places: a picturesque Mexican village where death is a tourist attraction a city beneath the city where drowned lovers are silently reunited a carnival midway where a tiny man's most cherished fantasy can be fulfilled night after night.

But the moonlight reveals great magic here-and a breathtaking vista. The cold hours of darkness move like autumn mists deeper and deeper toward winter. America's premier living author of short fiction, Bradbury has spent many lifetimes in this remarkable place-strolling through empty, shadow-washed fields at midnight exploring long-forgotten rooms gathering dust behind doors bolted years ago to keep strangers locked out. An unforgettable collection of nineteen tales and short stories, fifteen of which were originally collected in the authors very first book features four. Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls 'the Undiscovered Country' of his imagination-that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where the stories you now hold were born.

The october country stories