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First edition, first printing, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For John Melville! Ray Bradbury, Oct. 8 1982". Bradbury's pioneering dark fantasy novel influenced Neil Gaiman and Stephen King, who wrote that its "mythic interests are so well suited to Bradbury's dreamy, semipoetic prose that it succeeds wonderfully" (p. 338). It was adapted into the 1983 Disney film with the screenplay written by Bradbury. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine and front cover with stylized black lettering, top edge red, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Ends and corners bumped, occasional mark to cloth, top edge damp-stained, contents unaffected; bright, unclipped jacket with slight rubbing and two short closed tears: a very good copy in near-fine jacket. Barron 6-46; Currey, p. 58. Stephen King, Danse Macabre, 1981.

In 'Something Wicked This Way Comes', Ray Bradbury combines a coming-of-age story with supernatural horror, as two thirteen-year-old boys, Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway, experience the sinister goings-on in their small Midwestern town when a mysterious carnival comes to town.