Books

Gauntlet Press: USA, 2001. First edition thus (& 1st printing). Hardcover. The author's first book: collecting 27 stories (16 from WEIRD TALES, and six published here for the first time), first published by Arkham House in 1947. This new edition, edited by Don Albright, reprints those 27 stories (plus four others), plus other material, including a new nine-page introduction by Bradbury and afterward by Clive Barker. LIMITED EDITION: From a total of 752 copies (700 numbered) this is one of 52 lettered copies signed by Ray Bradbury and Clive Barker issued in leather pictorial traycase: laid in is an eight-page chapbook of a short story (''Is that you, Herb?'') by Bradbury, plus a CD of interviews with Bradbury by the editor, in which Bradbury comments on all 27 stories). Also included (in this lettered edition only) is a 30-page 'Dark Carnival Novel Outline' by Bradbury. This is letter ''KK''. Note: the chapbook lists the price of this lettered Gauntlet edition as $1000 (and $150 for…

Dark Carnival is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury, first published in 1947 by Arkham House. It was Bradbury's first published book. This collection presents stories with elements of horror, fantasy, and the macabre, as one might expect from the title and the publisher's association with H.P. Lovecraft's mythos.

Only 3112 copies were printed of the first edition.