A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories (36 page)
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Authors: Ray Bradbury
“In a Season of Calm Weather” and “The First Night of Lent” originally published in PLAYBOY. Copyright © 1956 by HMH Publishing Co., Inc.
“A Medicine for Melancholy” copyright © 1959 by Ray Bradbury.
“The Wonderful Ice-Cream Suit” originally published in THE SATURDAY EVENING POST as “The Magic White Suit.” Copyright © 1958 by The Curtis Publishing Company.
“Fever Dream” copyright © 1959 by Ray Bradbury.
“The Marriage Mender” copyright © 1959 by Ray Bradbury.
“The Town Where No One Got Off” originally published in ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE. Copyright © 1958 by Davis Publications, Inc.
“A Scent of Sarsaparilla” originally published in
Star Science Fiction Stories #1
, published by Ballantine Books, Inc.
“The Headpiece” originally published in LILLIPUT, London.
“The Time of Going Away” copyright © 1959 by Ray Bradbury.
“All Summer in a Day” and “Icarus Montgolfier Wright” originally published in FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE.
“Icarus Montgolfier Wright” copyright © 1956 by Ray Bradbury.
“The Gift” copyright © 1959 by Ray Bradbury.
“The Great Collision of Monday Last” originally published in ARGOSY, London, as “Collision of Monday.”
“The Little Mice” originally published in ESCAPADE as “The Mice.”
“The Shore Line at Sunset” copyright © 1959 by Ray Bradbury.
“The Day It Rained Forever” copyright © 1959 by Ray Bradbury.
“Chrysalis” originally published in AMAZING STORIES. Copyright 1946 by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company.
“Pillar of Fire” copyright 1948 by Love Romances Publishing Company, Inc.
“Zero Hour” copyright 1947 by Love Romances Publishing Company, Inc.
“The Man” originally published in THRILLING WONDER STORIES. Copyright 1948 by Standard Magazines, Inc.
“Time in Thy Flight” copyright 1953 by Ray Bradbury.
“The Pedestrian” copyright 1951 by Ray Bradbury.
“Hail and Farewell” copyright 1953 by Ray Bradbury.
“Invisible Boy” originally published in MADEMOISELLE. Copyright 1945 by Ray Bradbury.
“Come into My Cellar” copyright © 1962 by Ray Bradbury.
“The Million-Year Picnic” copyright 1946 by Ray Bradbury.
“The Screaming Woman” copyright 1951 by Ray Bradbury.
“The Smile” originally published in FANTASTIC MAGAZINE. Copyright 1952 by Ray Bradbury.
“Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” originally published in THRILLING WONDER STORIES as “The Naming of Names.” Copyright 1949 by Ray Bradbury; copyright © renewed 1976 by Ray Bradbury.
“The Trolley” originally published in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. Copyright © 1955 by The Hearst Corporation.
In a career spanning more than seventy
years, Ray Bradbury, who died on June 5, 2011, at the age of 91, inspired generations of readers to
dream, think, and create. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books,
as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of
the most celebrated writers of our time. His groundbreaking works include
Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine,
and
Something Wicked This Way Comes.
He wrote the screen play for John Huston's
classic film adaptation of
Moby Dick,
and was nominated for an Academy
Award. He adapted sixty-five of his stories for television's
The Ray Bradbury Theater,
and won an
Emmy Award for his teleplay of
The Halloween Tree.
He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book
Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of
Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, among many honors.
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Copyright notices for individual stories appear Acknowledgments, which constitute an extension of this copyright page.
A Medicine for Melancholy
published by Bantam 1960.
S Is for Space
published by Bantam 1970.
A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY AND OTHER STORIES
. Copyright © 1990 by Ray Bradbury. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
First Avon Books edition published 1998.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-94680
ISBN: 0-380-73086-3
EPub Edition © MAY 2013 ISBN: 9780062242105
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