The weird, the wonderful and the macabre...
A dwarf movie-director with a passion for prehistoric monsters...a female giant who consults a phychiatrist about her pigmy husband's love of tattooing her...an old lady who bargains with Death...a ventriloquist's dummy who starts to use its own voice...a spawn of sinister mushrooms arrives by special delivery from New Orleans - or is it Mars?
Here in Machineries of Joy are twenty tales of nerve-tautening suspense, told with all the wit, power and variety that only Ray Bradbury's extraordinary imagination can provide.
Stories included:
The Machineries of Joy (1962)
The One Who Waits (1949)
Tyrannosaurus Rex (1962)
The Vacation (1963)
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh (1960)
Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! (1962)
Almost the End of the World (1957)
Perhaps We Are Going Away (1962)
And the Sailor, Home from the Sea (1960)
El Dia de Muerte (1947)
The Illustrated Woman (1961)
Some Live Like Lazarus (1960)
A Miracle of Rare Device (1961)
And So Died Riabouchinska (1953)
The Beggar on O'Connell Bridge (1961)
Death and the Maiden (1960)
A Flight of Ravens (1952)
The Best of All Possible Worlds (1960)
The Lifework of Juan Diaz (1963)
To the Chicago Abyss (1963)
The Anthem Sprinters (1963)
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Paperback, good condition. Wear to cover edges, slight wear to upper corner of pages. Slight creasing on spine.
Published by Grafton Books, 1988 (first published 1977).
ISBN: 0586043616