Something Wicked This Way Comes

Publisher Marketing:""By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."" The carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour of a chill Midwestern October eve. Ushering in Halloween a week before its time, a calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Young boyhood companions James Nightshade and Will Halloway are the first to heed its call. From a place of safety, they watch a midway come to spectral life, their emotions a riot of eagerness, trepidation, bravado, and uncertainty. For they can sense the change that's in the air; that this is the autumn in which innocence must vanish in the harsh, acrid smoke of disillusionment and horror. Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two inquisitive boys standing precariously on the brink of adulthood will soon discover the secret of the satanic raree-show's mazes and mirrors, as they learn all too well the heavy cost of wishes and the stuff of nightmares. All those who still dream and remember and those who have heard the whispering but have yet to experience its dark, poetic power you are welcome. A shadow show like none other is about to begin again." Review Citations: Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/2000 pg. 437 (EAN 9780380729401, Mass Market Paperbound) Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/2005 pg. 572 (EAN 9780380729401, Mass Market Paperbound) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 61 (EAN 9780380729401, Mass Market Paperbound) Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/2009 pg. 784 (EAN 9780380729401, Mass Market Paperbound) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 83 (EAN 9780380729401, Mass Market Paperbound) Ingram Advance 06/01/1999 pg. 90 (EAN 9780380977277, Hardcover) Library Journal 10/01/1999 pg. 140 (EAN 9780380977277, Hardcover) Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/2000 pg. 437 (EAN 9780380977277, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2000 pg. 70 (EAN 9780380977277, Hardcover) Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/2005 pg. 572 (EAN 9780380977277, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 98 (EAN 9780380977277, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 727 (EAN 9780380977277, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 61 (EAN 9780380977277, Hardcover) Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/2009 pg. 784 (EAN 9780380977277, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 83 (EAN 9780380977277, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1992 pg. 670 (EAN 9780394530413, Hardcover) Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/1995 pg. 430 (EAN 9780394530413, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1997 pg. 621 (EAN 9780394530413, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/1995 pg. 74 (EAN 9780394530413, Hardcover) Library Journal 10/15/2010 pg. 48 (EAN 9781400148257, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Contributor Bio:  Bradbury, Ray In a career spanning more than seventy years, Ray Bradbury, who died on June 5, 2011 at the age of 91, inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He wrote the screen play for John Huston's classic film adaptation of Moby Dick, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors. Throughout his life, Bradbury liked to recount the story of meeting a carnival magician, Mr. Electrico, in 1932. At the end of his performance Electrico reached out to the twelve-year-old Bradbury, touched the boy with his sword, and commanded, "Live forever!" Bradbury later said, "I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped."Contributor Bio:  Rummel, Christian Christian Rummel has recorded many audio books in a variety of genres. He has worked with NYC companies Theatre for a New Audience and Clubbed Thumb. He has also appeared in several episodes of "Law & Order". He resides in Brooklyn.