The October Country: Stories (F580)

276 pp. CONTENTS: The Dwarf; The Next In Line; The Watchful Poker Chip Of H. Matisse; Skeleton; The Jar; The Lake; The Emissary; Touched With Fire; The Small Assassin; The Crowd; Jack-In-The-Box; The Scythe; Uncle Einar; The Wind; The Man Upstairs; There Was An Old Woman; The Cistern; Homecoming; The Wonderful Death Of Dudley Stone. "Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951), Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th and 21st century American writers of speculative fiction. Many of Bradbury's works have been adapted into television shows or films."