“Dark Carnival” is the first storybook by American writer Ray Bradbury , published in 1947. The collection includes stories written by the author in 1943-1947.
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| Genre | Storybook |
| Author | Ray Bradbury |
| Original language | English |
| Date of writing | 1946-1947 |
| Date of first publication | 1947 |
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Annotation
The book includes fantastic stories that make up Ray Bradbury's debut authorial. The collection presents us with a very “black-headed” Bradbury - it was with such stories that an unknown writer had to earn a living in those years.
In the plots and stylistics of the book's works, one can feel the influence of Edgar Allan Poe . Bradbury's stories, in turn, influenced Stephen King .
For the first time, the collection contains cross-cutting characters of some of the subsequent stories of the writer - Uncle Einar and Sesi's “Wanderer”.
Stories
- The Homecoming Day (1946)
- Skeleton (1945)
- Bank ( English The Jar ) (1944)
- The Lake ( English The Lake ) (1944)
- Headstone ( The Tombstone ) (1945)
- When the Family Smiles (1947)
- The Emissary (1947)
- The Wanderer ( The Traveler ) (1946)
- The Small Assassin (1946)
- The Crowd (1943)
- The Puppeteer ( English The Handler ) (1947)
- Failure in time ( English Interim (Time Intervening) ) (1947)
- The Jumper in the Box ( Eng. Jack-In-The-Box ) (1947)
- The Scythe (1943)
- Let's Play Poison (1946)
- Uncle Einar (1947)
- The Wind (1943)
- Once upon a time there was an old woman ( Eng. There Was an Old Woman ) (1944)
- The Dead ( Eng. The Dead Man ) (1945)
- A guest from the second floor ( English The Man Upstairs ) (1947)
- Drain ( English The Cistern ) (1947)
- Next ( English The Next in Line ) (1947)