by Ray Bradbury
A GRAVEYARD FOR LUNATICS
ISBN 0-380-81200-2 (paperback)
This enthralling novel of mystery, magic, and the strange business of illusion carries a young scriptwriter to an eerie Hollywood graveyard on Halloween night and entangles him in a web of shocking secrets buried in the dark myths of Tinseltown.
THE ILLUSTRATED MAN
ISBN 0-380-97384-7 (hardcover)
A phantasmagoric sideshow consisting of eighteen startling visions of humankind’s destiny, from the terrible vengeance of a living city to a confrontation at a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere.
I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC AND OTHER STORIES
ISBN 0-380-78962-0 (paperback)
Twenty-eight classic Bradbury stories and one luscious poem—a wonder-filled cavalcade of delight and terror that stretches from the grave of Abraham Lincoln to the farthest reaches of outer space.
THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES
ISBN 0-380-97383-9 (hardcover)
A dazzling star in the Bradbury literary universe, the groundbreaking, provocative, and masterfully imagined chronicles of Earth’s settlement of the fourth world from the sun.
A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY AND OTHER STORIES
ISBN 0-380-73086-3 (paperback)
A magical vanilla ice-cream summer suit, a child’s game called “Invasion,” and the most marvelous Christmas display ever seen are but a small sampling of the wonders to be found in this superb collection from one of the century’s great men of imagination.
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY
ISBN 0-380-97387-1 (hardcover)
A spellbinding journey to the “Undiscovered Country” of the legendary author’s imagination—a collection of tales tinged with Autumn that chill like a long-after midnight wind and lift the reader high above a sleeping world on strange wings.
QUICKER THAN THE EYE
ISBN 0-380-78959-0 (mass market paperback)
From an aging couple’s wild assassination games to a family’s detour down a sideroad of alternate futures, twenty-one remarkable tales from a master magician displaying the breathtaking range of his storytelling powers.
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
ISBN 0-380-72940-7 (mass market paperback)
ISBN 0-380-97727-3 (hardcover)
Ray Bradbury’s enduring masterwork of the dark fantastic—a coming-of-age story like no other that thrusts two young boys into the shadowy realm of nightmare when a carnival of evil rolls into their sleepy Midwestern town.
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Copyright
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1990 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. It is here reprinted by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf.
A GRAVEYARD FOR LUNATICS. Copyright © 1990 by Ray Bradbury. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
First Perennial edition published 2001.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bradbury, Ray.
A graveyard for lunatics: another tale of two cities / Ray Brad-bury.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-380-81200-2
Epub Edition © APRIL 2013 ISBN: 9780062242136
1. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)—Fiction. 2. Motion picture industry—Fiction. 3. Screenwriters—Fiction. 4. Cemeteries—Fiction. 5. Halloween—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3503.R167 G74 2001
813’.54—dc21
2001021388
01 02 03 04 05 WB/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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