The Stories of Ray Bradbury (ISBN 0-394-51335-5) is, as the title suggests, an anthology

Anthology

An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...

 containing 100 short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...

 and was first published by Knopf in 1980. The hundred stories, written from 1943 to 1980, were selected by the author himself. Bradbury's work had previously been collected in various compilations, such as The Martian Chronicles

The Martian Chronicles

The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction short story collection by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists...

and The October Country

The October Country

The October Country is a 1955 collection of nineteen macabre short stories by Ray Bradbury. It reprints fifteen of the twenty-seven stories of his 1947 collection Dark Carnival, and adds four more of his stories previously published elsewhere....

, but never in such a large volume (912 pages) or spanning such a long period of time.

Some of the more famous stories in this collection include "The Fog Horn

The Fog Horn

"The Fog Horn" is a 1951 science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, and the first in his collection The Golden Apples of the Sun. The story was the basis for the 1953 film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.-Plot summary:...

", "The Veldt

The Veldt

"The Veldt" is a short story written by Ray Bradbury that was published originally as "The World the Children Made" in the September 23, 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, later republished in the anthology The Illustrated Man in 1951...

", "The Day It Rained Forever", "The Small Assassin" and "I Sing the Body Electric!".

In 2003, Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales

Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales

Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury wrote an introduction to the collection where he speaks about some of the inspirations, influences and among other things, the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.-Table of...

was published, containing a further 100 stories from later in his career. Although they sound similar, the two anthologies have entirely different contents and should not be confused.

Contents

• "The Night", 1946
• "Homecoming", 1946
• "Uncle Einar", 1947
• "The Traveler", 1946
• "The Lake", 1944
• "The Coffin", 1947
• "The Crowd", 1943.
• "The Scythe
  The Scythe (short story)
  "The Scythe" is a short story by American author Ray Bradbury. It was originally published in the July, 1943 issue of Weird Tales. It was first collected in Bradbury's anthology Dark Carnival and later collected in The October Country and The Stories of Ray Bradbury.The story was referenced in the...
  
  ", 1943
• "There Was an Old Woman", 1944
• " There Will Come Soft Rains
  There Will Come Soft Rains (short story)
  "There Will Come Soft Rains" is a short story by science fiction author Ray Bradbury which was first published in the May 6, 1950 issue of Collier's...
  
  ", 1950
• "Mars Is Heaven", 1950
• "The Silent Towns", 1949
• "The Earth Men", 1948
• "The Off Season", 1948
• "The Million-Year Picnic", 1946
• "The Fox and the Forest", 1950
• "Kaleidoscope", 1949
• "The Rocket Man", 1951
• "Marionettes, Inc.
  Marionettes, Inc.
  "Marionettes, Inc.", is a short story by Ray Bradbury from his collection of short stories, The Illustrated Man. In it, Bradbury conjures a conflict between man and machine and depicts the human dependence on technology, a common theme for Bradbury's stories.- Plot summary:Smith and Braling, both...
  
  ", 1949
• "No Particular Night or Morning", 1951
• "The City", 1950
• "The Fire Balloons", 1951
• "The Last Night of the World", 1951
• "The Veldt
  The Veldt
  "The Veldt" is a short story written by Ray Bradbury that was published originally as "The World the Children Made" in the September 23, 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, later republished in the anthology The Illustrated Man in 1951...
  
  ", 1950
• "The Long Rain
  The Long Rain
  "The Long Rain" is a short story by science fiction author Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in 1950 by Love Romances Publishing Co., Inc.-Plot summary:The first paragraph reads as follows:The rain continued...
  
  ", 1950
• "The Great Fire", 1949
• "The Wilderness", 1952
• "A Sound of Thunder
  A Sound of Thunder
  “A Sound of Thunder” is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, first published in Collier’s magazine in 1952. As of 1984 it was the most re-published science fiction story up to the present time...
  
  ", 1952
• "The Murderer
  The Murderer
  "The Murderer" is a short story by Ray Bradbury, published in his collection The Golden Apples of the Sun.-Plot summary:The scene is set in the near future, in an apparently sterile and clinical building...
  
  ", 1953
• "The April Witch
  The April Witch
  -Reception:Boucher and McComas described the story as one of Bradbury's "reassuringly lovely flights of fancy."-Publication history:The story was included in several of Bradbury's short story collections:* The Golden Apples of the Sun, 1953...
  
  ", 1952
• "Invisible Boy", 1945
• "The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind
  The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind
  "The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind" is a short story by Ray Bradbury, one of his collection The Golden Apples of the Sun.-Background:The story was published during the Cold War...
  
  ", 1953
• "The Fog Horn
  The Fog Horn
  "The Fog Horn" is a 1951 science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, and the first in his collection The Golden Apples of the Sun. The story was the basis for the 1953 film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.-Plot summary:...
  
  ", 1951.
• "The Big Black and White Game", 1945
• "Embroidery", 1951
• "The Golden Apples of the Sun", 1953
• "Powerhouse", 1948
• "Hail and Farewell", 1948
• "The Great Wide World over There", 1952
• "The Playground", 1953
• "Skeleton", 1943
• "The Man Upstairs", 1947
• "Touched by Fire", 1954
• "The Emissary", 1947
• "The Jar", 1944
• "The Small Assassin
  The Small Assassin (short story)
  "The Small Assassin" is a short story by American author Ray Bradbury. It was first published in the November, 1946 issue of Dime Mystery. It was collected in Bradbury's anthology Dark Carnival and later collected in the anthologies The October Country, The Small Assassin, The Stories of Ray...
  
  ", 1946
• "The Next in Line", 1947
• "Jack-in-the-Box", 1947
• "The Leave-Taking", 1957
• "Exorcism", 1957
• "The Happiness Machine", 1957
• "Calling Mexico", 1950
• "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit", 1958
• "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed
  Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed
  "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury. It was originally published in the magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories in August 1949...
  
  ", 1949
• "The Strawberry Window", 1954
• "A Scent of Sarsaparilla", 1953
• "The Picasso Summer", 1957
• "The Day It Rained Forever", 1957
• "A Medicine for Melancholy", 1959
• "The Shoreline at Sunset", 1959
• "Fever Dream", 1959
• "The Town Where No One Got Off", 1958
• "All Summer in a Day
  All Summer in a Day
  "All Summer in a Day" is a "All Summer in a Day" is a "All Summer in a Day" is a [[short science fiction story ] by the author [[Ray Bradbury]]...
  
  ", 1980
• "Frost and Fire", 1946
• "The Anthem Sprinters", 1963
• "And So Died Riabouchinska", 1953
• "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!", 1980
• "The Vacation", 1963
• "The Illustrated Woman", 1961
• "Some Live Like Lazarus", 1960
• "The Best of All Possible Worlds", 1960
• "The One Who Waits", 1949
• "Tyrannosaurus Rex", 1962
• "The Screaming Woman", 1951
• "The Terrible Conflagration Up at the Place", 1980.
• "Night Call, Collect", 1949
• "The Tombling Day", 1952
• "The Haunting of the New", 1969
• "Tomorrow's Child", 1948
• "I Sing the Body Electric!", 1969
• "The Women", 1948
• "The Inspired Chicken Motel", 1969
• "Yes, We'll Gather at the River", 1969
• "Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You!", 1976
• "A Story of Love", 1976
• "The Parrot Who Met Papa", 1972
• "The October Game", 1948
• "Punishment Without Crime", 1950
• "A Piece of Wood", 1952
• "The Blue Bottle", 1950
• "Long After Midnight", 1962
• "The Utterly Perfect Murder", 1971
• "The Better Part of Wisdom", 1976
• "Interval in Sunlight", 1954
• "The Black Ferris", 1948
• "Farewell Summer", 1980
• "McGillahee's Brat", 1970
• "The Aqueduct
  The Aqueduct
  "The Aqueduct " is a short story by author Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in 1979 by Roy A. Squires in a limited edition chapbook . The story was subsequently collected in The Stories of Ray Bradbury in 1980....
  
  ", 1979
• "Gotcha!" 1978
• "The End of the Beginning", 1956

External links

• Raybradbury online