Mark Twain's Medieval Romance by Otto Penzler

Author:Otto Penzler [Penzler, Otto]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9781605983806
Publisher: Pegasus
Published: 2012-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

THE WHOLE TOWN’S SLEEPING

RAY BRADBURY

With the publication of his first book, The Martian Chronicles, in 1950 and then Fahrenheit 451 in 1953, Ray Bradbury (1920–) quickly became one of the most popular and important writers of science fiction in the twentieth century. Strangely, although his first book was a success in hardcover with six printings in two years, his second book was issued as a paperback original before it was published in hardcover. Almost equally oddly for such a young author, a special edition of Fahrenheit 451, limited to 200 copies, bound in asbestos, was published soon after its initial printing and is one of the most sought-after books in the science fiction collecting world.

This prolific writer is less known as the author of mystery fiction, but he has produced several novels (Death Is a Lonely Business, A Graveyard to Let, and Something Wicked This Way Comes) and numerous short stories in the mystery, crime, and suspense genre, including the following story.

Bradbury’s stories have been described as haunting, fascinating, beautiful, and unique; many defy classification, and none more so than “The Whole Town’s Sleeping.”

First published in the September 1950 issue of McCall’s magazine, it was so baffling—and frustrating—that Alfred Hitchcock selected it for his 1962 anthology, Twelve Stories for Late at Night. It later appeared, in somewhat different form, as a chapter in Bradbury’s 1957 novel Dandelion Wine.

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