I suggest you do a book search on ABE. You can find usually copies ranging from expensive, hardcover first editions to inexpensive, beat-up paperbacks, from booksellers all over the country. Here is a link to their website: http://www.abebooks.com
Yes, the more recent Gauntlet Press edition has different cover art (drawn by Ray himself), includes intoductions to each story with Ray's thoughts about that story, and has several other "bonus" features, including some stories not in the original edition. It is signed by both Ray and author Clive Barker. It's also a lot cheaper than the Arkham House first edition from 1947!
Yeah, I'm curious to know what story is in there as well.
By the way, Powell's Books might be a pretty good resource for find r is for..and s is for... I'd give anything to have kept the old bradbury paperbacks I had as a kid. Not because they're worth anything but because they were so cool. Good luck.
Posts: 17 | Location: Austin, Texas, USA | Registered: 05 August 2004
I own 60 Arkhams or so, but an affordable copy of Dark Carnival has always eluded me. Pretty soon it'll be so expensive as to be downright unaffordable. That Gauntlet Press edition sounds like a treat. Can anyone tell me what Ray has to say about "Skeleton" and "Let's play Poison"?
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Big cowinkidink. I found the same book just last Friday at a used bookstore for $4.00. I've had vol.2 for several years, but vol.1 had always managed to elude me. So I too was quite excited at having finally found it.
Big cowinkidink. I found the same book just last Friday at a used bookstore for $4.00. I've had vol.2 for several years, but vol.1 had always managed to elude me. So I too was quite excited at having finally found it.
Man, I thought I was the last man on Earth to say "cowinkidink"!
Ironically, I can't find Vol. 2. I wasn't impressed by "Pillar of Fire" all that much. It had a different voice than what I am used to.
Picked up "The Machineries of Joy" yesterday, in paperback. I've read only a few of the stories previously, so I am looking forward to it.
Clay
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Posts: 17 | Location: San Antonio, TX USA | Registered: 05 March 2004
I've been checking out "The Ray Bradbury Theater" films from the local library (most of these are quite well done) and came across one called "Gotcha!". The first part of this reminds me of "The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair", but it ends very creepily. I've poked around and found that "Gotcha!" is listed as one of the stories in "The Stories of Ray Bradbury" collection. Does anyone out there know if it's part of another (perhaps earlier) collection? I'm curious to read it and compare it with the film version.
Posts: 901 | Location: Box in Braling I's cellar | Registered: 02 July 2004
To date, "Gotcha" has only been collected in "The Stories of Ray Bradbury".
The RB Theater episode does begin like "The Laurel & Hardy Love Affair"; this material is not in the short story of "Gotcha". The chronology is roughly as follows:
1978 Gotcha published in magazine
late 1987 Laurel & Hardy Love Affair published in magazine
early 1988 RB Theater adaptation of Gotcha appears
My theory is that when adapting "Gotcha" for the screen, Ray invented the Laurel & Hardy material, subsequently using it as the basis of a new short story.
