Something Wicked This Way Comes was partly inspired by Ray Bradbury’s childhood encounter with a carnival performer called Mr. From the time he first began tinkering with a story about a “dark carnival” in the mid-1940s to the release of Disney’s 1983 feature adaptation, Bradbury spent nearly four decades telling and retelling the story of Jim Nightshade, his best friend Will Halloway, and their terrifying encounter with Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show.įrom its kernel of inspiration in a bizarre childhood memory to Gene Kelly’s failed attempt to turn it into a movie before Bradbury turned it into a novel, here are eight things you might not know about Something Wicked This Way Comes. It hasn’t been studied in schools as extensively as Fahrenheit 451, or endlessly anthologized like “The Veldt.” But Bradbury’s tale of two boys who come face to face with evil in their small Midwestern hometown-and decide to do something about it-is the story to which the author returned, again and again, for more than half of his career. In a career that spanned seven decades, it’s easy to overlook the outsized footprint of his 1962 horror novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes. He left behind more than 30 books and hundreds of short stories, not to mention stage plays, screenplays, teleplays, audio dramas, essays, and other works. Ray Bradbury was an extraordinarily prolific writer.
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