Something Wicked This Way Comes
On sale
20th August 2020
Price: £10.99
‘The novel is drenched in darkness, every character a slice of night’ Guardian
It’s All Hallow’s Eve, and Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to town.
Hear the music, see the lights, shrug off life’s worries and enter a place where dreams are not dreams, and wishes can be real.
All this awaits two boys trembling on the brink of manhood. But entering the smoke, mazes and mirrors, they will discover that not all dreams are worth the cost that must be paid . . .
‘A brilliant story brilliant executed. A must-read for fans of dark fantasy or horror, especially horror’ SF Site
It’s All Hallow’s Eve, and Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to town.
Hear the music, see the lights, shrug off life’s worries and enter a place where dreams are not dreams, and wishes can be real.
All this awaits two boys trembling on the brink of manhood. But entering the smoke, mazes and mirrors, they will discover that not all dreams are worth the cost that must be paid . . .
‘A brilliant story brilliant executed. A must-read for fans of dark fantasy or horror, especially horror’ SF Site
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Reviews
One of our eminent dreamers . . . the Hans Christian Andersen of the jet age
The novel is drenched in darkness, every character a slice of night
A darkly poetic tale . . . probably Bradbury's best work
A timeless rite-of-passage book
A brilliant story brilliant executed. A must-read for fans of dark fantasy or horror, especially horror
Ray Bradbury's most poignant evocation of the hopes and frustrations of smalltown life