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Sam Weller

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Sam Weller is the author of The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury (William Morrow, 2005) winner of the Society of Midland Author's Award for Best Biography of 2005. The book was also a finalist for the prestigious Bram Stoker Award. Sam is the former Midwest Correspondent for Publishers Weekly. He is a contributing writer for the Chicago Public Radio program, 848 and his work has appeared on the National Public Radio program, All Things Considered. Sam is a regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune Magazine, a frequent literary critic for the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, as well as Punk Planet magazine. During his tenure as managing editor of Columbia College's Gravity, the publication was given Newsweek magazine's Rober ...more

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"THE SHADOWS BEHIND THE TREES" — HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Happy Halloween, everyone! I thought I would do something special to mark the occasion, so here’s an absolutely free downloadable short story. I wrote the first page of this in Ray Bradbury’s house, hoping to capture some of that elusive Bradburian magic. “The Shadows Behind the Trees” is a title I heard Ray Bradbury say in passing one day and I said, “That’s a great title for a short story.” He e

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	Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury by Sam Weller (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mort Castle (Editor), Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 1,867 ratings — published 2012 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury 4.29 avg rating — 559 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury by Sam Weller (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe Hill (Goodreads Author), Mort Castle 3.62 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Black 3.80 avg rating — 112 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roadside Cross 4.02 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secret Chicago: The Unique Guidebook to Chicago's Hidden Sites, Sounds, and Tastes 3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il Grande Spettacolo delle Ombre. 26 storie in celebrazione di Ray Bradbury by Sam Weller (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mort Castle (Editor), Ray Bradbury (Preface) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sam Weller wrote a new blog post "THE SHADOWS BEHIND THE TREES" — HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Happy Halloween, everyone! I thought I would do something special to mark the occasion, so here’s an absolutely free downloadable short story. I wrote Read more of this blog post »
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“We use certain authors at certain times of our lives, and we may never go back to them again.”
― Sam Weller, Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews

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“he was lecturing at a local university and a literature class tried to tell him what Fahrenheit 451 was really about. They were wrong and he told them so. But they insisted that they were right. “No, you’re wrong,” he said. It went back and forth like this for some time, a lit-crit Ping-Pong volley, until, finally, incensed that the professor and his students thought they knew more about the work than the author who created it, Ray told them all to F-off. Afterward, angered, he stomped out of the room.”
― Sam Weller, The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury

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“Indeed, he was a contradiction. Ray Bradbury was a nostalgic visionary: He predicted the past and remembered the future.”
― Sam Weller, The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury

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