the illustrated man something wicked this way comes

With Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas, Don Dubbins. It was written on the heels of his science-fiction classics The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 as well as his widely read bildungsroman Dandelion Wine.

The illustrations combine the garish colours of the carnival with the disturbing images of nightmare and, thus, exactly mirror the unsettling mood of the book. Mr Dark, The Illustrated Man sends the Dust Witch and then brings the carnival parade to town with the sole intention of finding the hiding boys. The Illustrated Man: Directed by Jack Smight. Published in 1962, Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury, is arguably the last of the authors most beloved novels. I find myself cradling it and running my fingers across its sweet pages. Comedian and actor Frank Skinner lists the book as amongst his favourites, and in his incisive and affectionate introduction written for this edition he examines the many delicious flavours of fear in a novel layered with meaning and portents. Like Bradbury’s prose, the images in this special Folio edition invite the reader to venture a little deeper into that dark tent, promising wonders and horrors and everything in between. The eerie inhabitants of Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show are lit with the gaudy yellow and red lights of the funfair, while Mr Dark leers from the midst of his attractions, the faces of his victims tattooed across his palms. For this lavishly illustrated collector’s edition, Tim McDonagh has provided seven colour illustrations dripping with carnivalesque menace. And two inquisitive boys standing precariously on the brink of adulthood will soon discover the secret of the satanic raree-shows smoke, mazes, and mirrors, as they learn all too well the heavy cost of wishes - and the stuff of nightmare. Described by Bradbury himself as the book he loved ‘best of all the things I have written’, Something Wicked This Way Comes is a timeless classic of fantasy horror.

The illustrated man something wicked this way comes