Something Wicked This Way Comes (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Ray Bradbury
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—occult
- Time of Work: The 1920’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
The Plot
Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade have been psychologically complementary pals since they were born, within minutes of each other, almost fourteen years ago. Light-haired Will is a good boy who avoids risks and possible hurts; he fears growing up. Dark- haired Jim is more instinctive and daring; he wants desperately to be adult. Will feels alienated from his father, Charles Halloway, an intelligent but dissatisfied man in his fifties who is a janitor at the town library and who desperately fears growing old. Jim’s father is dead.
One fine October day, an...
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