Something Wicked This Way Comes is Ray Bradbury's incomparable work of dark fantasy, and the gifted illustrator Ron Wimberly has stunningly captured its sinister magic in gorgeously realized black-and-white art.

Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show howls into Green Town, Illinois, at three in the morning a week before Halloween. Under its carnival tents is a mirror maze that steals wishes; a carousel that promises eternal life, in exchange for your soul; the Dust Witch, who unerringly foresees your death; and Mr. Dark, the Illustrated Man, who has lived for centuries off the misery of others. Only two boys, Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade, recognize the dark magic at work and have a plan to stop this ancient evil--that is, if it doesn't kill them first.

Complete with an original introduction by Bradbury, Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation reintroduces this thrilling classic.

Author: Ray Bradbury
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: 07/19/2011
Series: Ray Bradbury Graphic Novels
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780809080441


Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 07/29/2011

About the Author

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) was one of science fiction's greatest luminaries. The author of such classic, important works as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes (all of which have been adapted into fully authorized graphic novels), Bradbury was honored in 2007 with a Pulitzer citation "for his distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy."

Ron Wimberly has worked on such DC/Vertigo titles as Swamp Thing and Lucifer. He is the illustrator of the graphic novel Sentences: The Life of M. F. Grimm, which won the Glyph Award for best story and for best cover and was nominated for the Eisner Award for best reality-based title.