Description: Welcome to land Ray Bradbury calls "the Undiscovered Country" of his a imagination -- that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions, and conceits where these stories were born. "The October Country" is many places: a picturesque Mexican village where death is a tourist attraction; a city beneath the city where drowned lovers are silently reunited; a carnival midway where a tiny man's most cherished fantasy can be fulfilled night after night. Here a glass jar can hold memories and nightmares; a woman's newborn child can plot murder; and a man's skeleton can war against him. Here there is no escaping the dark stranger who lives upstairs...or the reaper who wields the world. Each of these stories is a wonder, imagined by an acclaimed tale-teller writing from a place of shadows. But there is astonishing beauty in these shadows, born from a prose that enchants and enthralls. Ray Bradbury's creation is a land of metaphors that can chill like a long after midnight wind...as they lift the reader high above a sleeping Earth.

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