“We are the October People, the autumn folk. That is the truth in an almond husk, a nightweed shell.”
Title: From the Dust Returned
Author: Ray Bradbury
Genre: Horror/Fantasy
Year: 2001
From the Dust Returned is another trip with Ray Bradbury into October Country, this time located roughly in upper Illinois. It is a fix-up novel in the vein of [...]
A carnival should be all growls, roars like timberlands stacked, bundled, rolled and crashed, great explosions of lion dust, men ablaze with working anger, pop bottles jangling, horse buckles shivering, engines and elephants in full stampede through rains of sweat while zebras neighed and trembled like cage trapped in cage.
But this was like old movies, [...]
Nothing is ever lost. If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life. From an ever-roaming curiosity in all the arts, from bad radio to good theatre, from nursery rhyme to symphony, from jungle [...]
As I’m on a bit of a Ray Bradbury kick lately (with it being October and all) I was excited to come across two videos of a long talk he gave in 2001 over at Bill the Sci-Fi Guy’s site, From a Sci-Fi Standpoint. The lecture is about an hour, with a follow-up interview that [...]
Martin knew it was autumn again, for Dog ran into the house bringing wind and frost and a smell of apples turned to cider under trees. In dark clock-springs of hair, Dog fetched goldenrod, dust of farewell-summer, acorn-husk, hair of squirrel, feather of departed robin, sawdust from fresh-cut cordwood, and leaves like charcoals shaken from [...]