Maxima Library

In his first collection in seven years, the incomparable Ray Bradbury conjures up eerie ghosts of the past, present, and future that will bewitch and disturb his millions of readers.

Meet the parrot to whom Hemingway confided the plot of his last, greatest, and never-written novel; the invisible ice-woman who called herself “Melissa Toad, Witch” and offered perfect love and a magical immunity; the rookie cop who was stunned by a girl’s suicide — until he learned “her” secret, plus 19 more hauntings and celebrations.

“Each entry is a miniature and a jewel… He can establish a mood in a line, can suggest things that go bump in the night in soaring poetic fashion. This is rainy-night stuff.”

— San Francisco Chronicle