Bradbury's imaginative field is boundless. In this collection of 23 stories he carries us from the cozy familiarity of small-town America to the frozen desert and double moon that has been a part of our landscapes since THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES.
Characters range from the ordinary--a rookie cop, an unhappy wife on vacation in Mexico, an old parish priest hearing confession to the extraordinary--the parrot to whom Hemingway confides the plot of his greatest but unwritten novel and a woman who hangs out a sign in New York City reading "Melissa Toad, Witch."
"Fantastic, chillingly suspenseful or hauntingly nostalgic, each of these stories has that aura of the expected combined with the special ring of absolute rightness that is brilliantly, uniquely, Bradbury." (Publisher's Source)
