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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; The Man Upstairs, a 1995 short story by Carolyn Banks
"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]
(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)
A comprehensive overview of Ray Bradbury's written works by Cochran, David (2000), "'I'm Being Ironic': Imperialism, Mass Culture, and the Fantastic World of Ray Bradbury", in Krstovic, Jelena (ed.), America Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era, Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 55–72, ISBN ...
The Meadow is a radio drama by Ray Bradbury, [3] written for a 1947 episode of the radio series World Security Workshop. [4] It was included in the anthology Best One-Act Plays of 1947-1948. [5] Bradbury later revised it into a short story (1953) and a stage play (1960).
"The Scythe" is a short story by American author Ray Bradbury. It was originally published in the July 1943 issue of Weird Tales. It was first collected in Bradbury's anthology Dark Carnival and later collected, in revised form, in The October Country and The Stories of Ray Bradbury.
Rob Fletcher uses the opening paragraph, in which Bradbury describes the rain of Venus with phrases like: "It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping in the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains" to illustrate the ...