Something Wicked This Way Comes (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ray Bradbury
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: The early 1930’s
- Setting: Green Town, Illinois
- Principal Characters: Will Halloway, Jim Nightshade, Charles Halloway, J. C. Cooger, G. M. Dark, Miss Foley
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Supernatural, Midwest, 1920’s, 1930’s, Good and evil, Small-town life, Youth, Circuses or carnivals, Boys, Aging, Illinois, Tattoos
- Locales: Green Town, IL
The Novel
Something Wicked This Way Comes is a story of good versus evil, with love and laughter overcoming fear and illusion, somewhat in the manner of a medieval morality play. Yet Bradbury puts life into this ancient literary tradition to produce an entertaining and interesting work that falls just short of being a fantasy masterpiece. The setting is Green Town, Illinois, an idyllic Midwestern small town which is also the locale of his partly autobiographical Dandelion Wine (1957).
The prologue contains the enigmatic sentence, “One year Halloween came...
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