Americana is even found in the fantastic!
What
is more American than the carnival coming to town on a warm summer day?
Nothing….except for what lays underneath.
Ray
Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes is about two
13-year-old boys, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, who have a harrowing
experience with a nightmarish traveling carnival that comes to their Midwestern
town one October. The carnival's leader is the mysterious "Mr. Dark"
who bears a tattoo for each person who, lured by the offer to live out his
secret fantasies, has become bound in service to the carnival. Mr. Dark's
malevolent presence is countered by that of Will's father, Charles Halloway, who
harbors his own secret desire to regain his youth.
I
cut my sci-fi teeth on the words and wisdom of Ray Bradbury. For Sci-Fi
newbies I also recommend R Is for Rocket and S is For Space, two
great short story books by America’s Science Fiction Master.
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