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The October Country

Ray Bradbury (1955)

Subgenre
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages306 (Standard (250-400))
SettingSecondary World
CSM age16
Goodreads4.09/5 (21894)

Content levels

ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentMild
LanguageMild

Protagonist archetypes

Multiple POVs

Synopsis

"The October Country is many places: a picturesque Mexican village where death is a tourist attraction; a city beneath the city where drowned lovers are silently reunited; a carnival midway where a tiny man's most cherished fantasy can be fulfilled night after night. Each of the stories in Ray Bradbury's masterful collection is a wonder, imagined by an acclaimed tale-teller writing from a place of shadows. But there is astonishing beauty here as well, born from a prose that enchants and enthralls, that chills like a long-after-midnight wind, that lifts the reader high above a sleeping Earth on strange wings."--P. [4] of cover.

Tags

Literary FictionDark FantasyMagical RealismHorrorShort Story Collection