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Article: One-on-one with the author: Ray Bradbury.(Interview)
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- The Saturday Evening Post
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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Wanting to offer you a short story to celebrate the upcoming Halloween season, we turned to Ray Bradbury, the legendary fantasy writer and an esteemed member of The Saturday Evening Post's Fiction Advisory Board.
Bradbury is a wizard with words. Dandelion Wine was a magical evocation of childhood. Something Wicked This Way Comes offered chills that outdid the Brothers Grimm. The Martian Chronicles took us to other worlds of imagination. The Illustrated Man was a paean to storytelling. Fahrenheit 451 was a love affair with books.
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"Back when I was 12 years old, I was madly in love with L. ...