Dark Carnival

Dark Carnival is a collection of the following Ray Bradbury short stories, published in October 1947:

Related Topics:
Ray Bradbury - 1947

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• The Homecoming
• Skeleton
• The Jar
• The Lake
• The Maiden
• The Tombstone
• The Smiling People
• The Emissary
• The Traveler
• The Small Assassin
• The Crowd
• Reunion
• The Handler
• The Coffin
• Interim
• Jack-In-The-Box
• The Scythe
• Let's Play "Poison"
• Uncle Einar
• The Wind
• The Night
• There Was An Old Woman
• The Dead Man
• The Man Upstairs
• The Night Sets
• Cistern
• The Next In Line

Dark Carnival was Bradbury's first published book, and first hardcover. Three thousand copies were printed. All but six of the stories had been first published elsewhere, although Bradbury revised some of the texts.

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For many years, Bradbury did not permit Dark Carnival to be reprinted, since updated versions of many of the stories were collected as The October Country. However, an expanded edition, with extra stories, was printed by Gauntlet Press in 2001.

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