Something Wicked This Way Comes (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Ray Bradbury
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: A week before one Halloween in the early 1930’s
- Setting: Green Town, Illinois
- 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
Characters Discussed
Will Halloway, a boy of almost fourteen, born one minute before midnight on October 30. He is the best friend of Jim Nightshade. The less adventuresome of the two, he is frightened by the hypnotically attractive carnival that appears in Green Town, Illinois, just before Halloween. He is still very much a young boy, in contrast to Jim. His experience with the evil Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show helps to teach him about the value of friendship, the importance of his father, and the nature of evil. He brings down the wrath of Cooger and Dark by...
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