Hi...

I'm doing a research on the black ferris. And I was wondering if You could give me some information about when I was written, and where Ray Bardbury got the idea from. I hope You will help us.

Thanks,

Charlotte, Denmark...

Forgot something. *GG*

If you know anything else about The Black Ferris, You're welcome to write that to.

Thanks.

Hello Charlotte,

I think the story was written sometime at the end of the 1940ies. It is published in Dark Carnival and also adapted into a comic book version in the early fifties. I am going to look it up when I am back home and get back to you with the details

http://www.audiorevolution.com/dvd/revs/somethingwicked.shtml

1948, then as Something Wicked This Way Comes. (Click above)

Hi Charlotte,

it seems that I have to correct and improve upon my above post regarding some details:

The story "Black Ferris" was planned to be used in the collection titled "Dark Carnival" (1947), yes, it even was supposed to be the title story but was actually never included. It was published after all in a then well known magazine called "Weird Tales" in May, 1948, followed by a quite faithful comic adaption in "The Haunt of Fear" No.18, 1953. From there it went through a never realized screen play to a full fledged novel called "Something Wicked this Way comes".

Hope this helps for starters ;-)

So most of Bradbury's fans never saw the original story till it appeared in "The Stories of Ray Bradbury" when that came out in 1980.

Thanks for the help.

It really helped.
Allthough � would like like to know why Bradbury wrote about a ferris and not something else, but that's proberlay (don't know how it's spelled) something he doesn't want people to know.

But thanks for the help once again.

To open a whole can of worms, here's a story mentioning how the ferris was changed to a carousel in the novel: http://www.rodserling.com/msloan.htm