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Classic Stories 2: Medicine for Melancholy & S is for Space

Two collections by Ray Bradbury are gathered into one volume, offering a wide range of short stories in which fear arrives from unexpected places. Within these pages, ordinary and seemingly harmless people find themselves facing something cold and unsettling. Bradbury moves between science fiction and horror, using the inventive settings and precise, lyrical prose for which he is known to unsettle the reader. The book is a varied selection that shows how quickly the familiar can turn strange.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 336 pages

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