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Ray Douglas Bradbury (US: / ˈ b r æ d b ɛr i / BRAD-berr-ee; August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
"The Man Upstairs", a 1943 short story by Ray Bradbury from The October Country The Man Upstairs , a 1953 play by Patrick Hamilton " The babysitter and the man upstairs ", a 1960s urban legend
(2011) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition – Volume 1, 1938–1943 (2014) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition – Volume 2, 1943–1944 (2017) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition – Volume 3, 1944–1945 (2020) Killer, Come Back to Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury (2020)
"Hollerbochen's Dilemma" was poorly received, with Bradbury subsequently writing "no one enjoyed my story" and "I think it was terrible myself". [2] Bradbury later wrote a sequel, "Hollerbochen Comes Back", in which a resurrected Hollerbochen rescues an imprisoned Bradbury and takes him to wreak wordplay-based vengeance on those who criticized the first story. [3]
The Nazi book burnings horrified Ray Bradbury and inspired him to write Fahrenheit 451. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), formed in 1938 to investigate American citizens and organizations suspected of having communist ties, held hearings in 1947 to investigate alleged communist influence in Hollywood movie-making. [17]
"Marionettes, Inc." is a short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, originally published in Startling Stories (March 1949) and later reprinted in his collection of short stories The Illustrated Man. In the story, Bradbury conjures a conflict between man and machine and depicts the human dependence on technology, a common theme for Bradbury's ...
"First Day" "Heart Transplant" "Quid Pro Quo" "After the Ball" "In Memoriam" "Téte-á-Téte" "The Dragon Danced at Midnight" "The Nineteenth" "Beasts"
The novel is largely created from a series of short stories Bradbury wrote decades earlier, centering on a family of Illinois-based monsters and ghosts named the Elliotts. The six previously published stories originally appeared in the magazines The Saturday Evening Post , Mademoiselle and Weird Tales as well as Bradbury's earlier collections ...