From The Dust Returned: A Family Remembrance
by:
Ray Bradbury (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780743221191 (0743221192)
Pages no: 204
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Paranormal,
Science Fiction,
Horror,
Short Stories,
Holiday,
Supernatural,
Vampires,
Halloween
I previously rolled Doubles, roll again: 5 This was an odd story. Were they vampires? Just immortal? Was the one with bright green wings supposed to be a demon? I know some were ghosts, and they adopted a human boy, but that's about it.
Conceived originally as a joint project with illustrations by Charles Addams, abandoned for some time after his death and resurrected by Bradbury late in his career, this book is a bit of a strange one for me. I think I like it better than it is actually a good book, if that makes sense (hence the h...
Rec'd at Paradys/DotN
Maybe you've had the experience of not liking something because it turned out not to be what the marketing said it was? Seems to happen with films a lot e.g. films that are a lot more cerebral than the dumb action movies they are made out to be - or the opposite. The trouble with this is it isn't th...
Opening: "In the attic where the rain touched the roof softly on spring days and where you could feel the mantle of snow outside, a few inches away, on December nights, A Thousand Times Great Grandmere existed. She did not live, nor was she eternally dead, she...existed."Yesterday was Ray Bradbury's...
10 years ago
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