While in the grip of this story, the reader sweats and grows dizzy, and knows with the greatest immediacy the terror of lust urged on by the approach of death.
“Our whole crew dreamed of witch-things and were-things, vampires and phantoms, things they couldn’t know anything about. Why? Because books on such ghastly subjects were destroyed a century ago. By law. Forbidden for anyone to own the grisly volumes.”
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
“Wife, I thought to myself, children, forgive me for what I do this night, terrible as it might be, for this is Ireland in the rain of an ungodly time and way out in Galway where the dead must go to die.”
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
“People have a right, I thought, to be as damned eccentric as they please.”
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
“What must it be on Earth?” wondered Poe. “Without Christmas? No hot chestnuts, no tree, no ornaments or drums or candles—nothing; nothing but the snow and wind and the lonely, factual people. . . .”
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
“world is? How we try to get ahead, but are hit over the head every time we succeed a fraction?”
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
― Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
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