Something Wicked This Way Comes | Themes and Characters
Based on the short story "Nightmare Carousel" (1962), Something Wicked This Way Comes has been enormously popular, but has been widely criticized for the self-indulgence of its language and the weakness of its plot structure. The novel focuses in part on the nostalgia for midwestern small-town childhood that Bradbury treated in his earlier non-fantasy novel Dandelion Wine. It adds, however, a strong focus on the theme of maturation and explores some of the darkest fantasies of childhood.
More than any other writer of fantasy and science fiction, Bradbury has...
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