Each of these stories is a wonder, imagined by an acclaimed tale-teller writing from a place shadows. Here there is no escaping the dark stranger who lives upstairs…or the reaper who wields the world. 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. The October Country's inhabitants live, dream, work, die-and sometimes live again-discovering, often too late, the high price of citizenship. 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. But the moonlight reveals great magic here-and a breathtaking vista. The cold hours of darkness move like autumn mists deeper and deeper toward winter. America's premier living author of short fiction, Bradbury has spent many lifetimes in this remarkable place-strolling through empty, shadow-washed fields at midnight exploring long-forgotten rooms gathering dust behind doors bolted years ago to keep strangers locked out. Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls “the Undiscovered Country” of his imagination-that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where the stories you now hold were born.
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