It is about two 13-year-old best friends, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway. 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. Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1962 dark fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury. 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. Oh God, midnight’s not bad, you wake and go back to. Ray Bradbury, quote from Something Wicked This Way Comes. Too late, I found you cant wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else. 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. Ray Bradbury, quote from Something Wicked This Way Comes. 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. 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.
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