A Graveyard For Lunatics

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062242136

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A Graveyard for Lunatics by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery—and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062242129

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Death Is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s. Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a resemblance to the author) spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination upon his clacking typewriter. Trying not to miss his girlfriend (away studying in Mexico), the nameless writer steadily crafts his literary effort--until strange things begin happening around him. Starting with a series of peculiar phone calls, the writer then finds clumps of seaweed on his doorstep. But as the incidents escalate, his friends fall victim to a series of mysterious "accidents"--some of them fatal. Aided by Elmo Crumley, a savvy, street-smart detective, and a reclusive actress of yesteryear with an intense hunger for life, the wordsmith sets out to find the connection between the bizarre events, and in doing so, uncovers the truth about his own creative abilities.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062242341

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Let's All Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury Pdf

On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, Constance is running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge -- and vanishes as suddenly as she appeared, leaving the narrator two macabre books: twin listings of the Tinseltown dead and soon to be dead, with Constance's name included among them. And so begins an odyssey as dark as it is wondrous, as the writer sets off in a broken-down jalopy with his irascible sidekick Crumley to sift through the ashes of a bygone Hollywood -- a graveyard of ghosts and secrets where each twisted road leads to grim shrines and shattered dreams ... and, all too often, to death.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Subterranean
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1596062177

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Where Everything Ends by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517115360

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A Graveyard for Lunatics by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0246137444

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A Graveyard for Lunatics by Ray Bradbury Pdf

The hero, a scriptwriter in 1950s Hollywood, is invited to a graveyard where he learns that in J.C. Arbuthnot's grave is a life-like dummy, not a corpse. Did the movie mogul die in the car crash twenty years ago, or not?.

Author : Jonathan R. Eller
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252052293

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Bradbury Beyond Apollo by Jonathan R. Eller Pdf

Celebrated storyteller, cultural commentator, friend of astronauts, prophet of the Space Age—by the end of the 1960s, Ray Bradbury had attained a level of fame and success rarely achieved by authors, let alone authors of science fiction and fantasy. He had also embarked on a phase of his career that found him exploring new creative outlets while reinterpreting his classic tales for generations of new fans. Drawing on numerous interviews with Bradbury and privileged access to personal papers and private collections, Jonathan R. Eller examines the often-overlooked second half of Bradbury's working life. As Bradbury's dreams took him into a wider range of nonfiction writing and public lectures, the diminishing time that remained for creative pursuits went toward Hollywood productions like the award-winning series Ray Bradbury Theater. Bradbury developed the Spaceship Earth narration at Disney's EPCOT Center; appeared everywhere from public television to NASA events to comic conventions; published poetry; and mined past triumphs for stage productions that enjoyed mixed success. Distracted from storytelling as he became more famous, Bradbury nonetheless published innovative experiments in autobiography masked as detective novels, the well-received fantasy The Halloween Tree and the masterful time travel story "The Toynbee Convector." Yet his embrace of celebrity was often at odds with his passion for writing, and the resulting tension continuously pulled at his sense of self. The revelatory conclusion to the acclaimed three-part biography, Bradbury Beyond Apollo tells the story of an inexhaustible creative force seeking new frontiers.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062242150

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One More for the Road by Ray Bradbury Pdf

From Ray Bradbury, the recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal comes a magical collection of short fiction. Ray Bradbury is one of the most celebrated fiction writers of the 20th century. He is the author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Bradbury has once again pulled together a stellar group of stories sure to delight readers young and old, old and new. In One More For The Road we are treated to the best this talented writer has to offer : the eerie and strange, nostalgic and bittersweet, searching and speculative. Here are a father's regrets, a lover's last embrace, a child's dreams of the future 栬l delivered with the trademark Bradbury wit and style.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007497669

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Now and Forever by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Two dazzling novellas from the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578066417

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Conversations with Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Presents a collection of interviews with twentieth-century novelist, short story writer, and playwright, Ray Bradbury, that covers five decades of his life and works.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : American drama
ISBN : UCAL:B4100515

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The Anthem Sprinters by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Four one-act plays. For contents, see Author Catalog.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062071033

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A Pleasure to Burn by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 is an enduring masterwork of twentieth-century American literature—a chilling vision of a dystopian future built on the foundations of ignorance, censorship, and brutal repression. The origins and evolution of Bradbury’s darkly magnificent tale are explored in A Pleasure to Burn, a collection of sixteen selected shorter works that prefigure the grand master’s landmark novel. Classic, thematically interrelated stories alongside many crucial lesser-known ones—including, at the collection’s heart, the novellas “Long After Midnight” and “The Fireman”—A Pleasure to Burn is an indispensable companion to the most powerful work of America’s preeminent storyteller, a wondrous confirmation of the inimitable Bradbury’s brilliance, magic . . . and fire.

Author : Mark Davis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445636429

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Asylum by Mark Davis Pdf

With the advent of care in the community for the mentally afflicted, the self-contained villages for the apparently insane have now been consigned to the history books. These once bustling Victorian institutions were commonly known in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the county asylum or the pauper lunatic asylum , and were an accepted and essential part of society for nearly two centuries. It is difficult to believe that, in 1914, there were 102 such asylums, accommodating over 100,000 patients, the majority of whom lived their entire lives under care and treatment. In 2014, with the exception of those that have already been demolished, these buildings now lie empty and derelict, or have been converted for contemporary living. Through this photographic book, we journey into the inner sanctum of a world of lost dreams, where hope was more often than not unwillingly traded for an uncomfortable acceptance.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062242181

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We'll Always Have Paris by Ray Bradbury Pdf

From the winner of the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters comes a brand new, never before published collection of short stories Following the success of his recent collections, The Cat’s Pajamas and One More for the Road, Ray Bradbury has once again pulled together a stellar group of stories sure to delight readers of all ages. We’ll Always Have Paris is a treasure trove of Bradbury gems—eerie and strange, nostalgic and bittersweet, searching and speculative—all of which have never before been published. A brilliant addition to the master’s oeuvre, this wonderfully entertaining and imaginative collection is a joyous celebration of the lifelong work of a literary legend.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Writers' Voices/Signal Hill
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0929631242

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Selected from Dark They Were, and Golden-eyed by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Includes the short story, a short biography, and more for the adult new reader.