The Vintage Bradbury
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The Vintage Bradbury was the first "best of" collection of the stories of 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...

, as selected by the author. It was published by Vintage Books
Vintage Books
Vintage Books is a publishing imprint founded in 1954 by Alfred A. Knopf. Its publishing list includes world literature, fiction, and non-fiction...

, a paperback
Paperback
Paperback, softback or softcover describe and refer to a book by the nature of its binding. The covers of such books are usually made of paper or paperboard, and are usually held together with glue rather than stitches or staples...

 division of Random House
Random House
Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...

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Contents

  • "The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse"
  • "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...

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  • "Hail and Farewell"
  • "A Medicine for Melancholy"
  • "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
    The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
    "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" is a short story by Ray Bradbury. It was first published in Detective Book Magazine in November 1948. The story was also published as "Touch and Go" in EQMM in January 1953.- Plot summary :...

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  • "Ylla"
  • "The Little Mice"
  • "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...

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  • "The Anthem Sprinters"
  • "And the Rock Cried Out"
  • "Invisible Boy"
  • "Night Meeting"
  • "The Fox and the Forest"
  • "Skeleton"
  • Selections from Dandelion Wine
    Dandelion Wine
    Dandelion Wine is a 1957 novel by Ray Bradbury, taking place in the summer of 1928 in the fictional town of Green Town, Illinois — a pseudonym for Bradbury's childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois...

    • "Illumination"
    • "Dandelion Wine"
    • "Statues"
    • "Green Wine for Dreaming"
  • "Kaleidoscope"
  • "Sun and Shadow"
    Sun and Shadow (short story)
    "Sun and Shadow" is a short story by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury first published in 1953 in an American news magazine called The Reporter. Later that same year, Bradbury anthologized it in The Golden Apples of the Sun....

  • "The Illustrated Man"
  • "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:...

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  • "The Dwarf"
  • "Fever Dream"
  • "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
    The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
    The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit is a 1998 film set in East Los Angeles directed by Stuart Gordon, written by Ray Bradbury and starring Edward James Olmos, Joe Mantegna, Esai Morales, Clifton Collins Jr. , Sid Caesar, Howard Morris and Gregory Sierra...

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  • "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...

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