The October Country
Readers rate it 3.9 (84 on Hardcover)
239 pages · Released 1971 · Ballantine Books
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The October Country parent’s guide: what’s inside
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A note for parents
The October Country is a classic collection of atmospheric horror and dark fantasy short stories by Ray Bradbury, best suited for older teens. While there is minimal graphic violence or profanity, the stories are psychologically unsettling and explore death, isolation, and human darkness with mature themes. Readers should be comfortable with dread, moral ambiguity, and existential unease rather than gore or explicit content.
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From the publisher
"The October Country is many places: a picturesque Mexican village where death is a tourist attraction; a city beneath the city where drowned lovers are silently reunited; a carnival midway where a tiny man's most cherished fantasy can be fulfilled night after night. Each of the stories in Ray Bradbury's masterful coll... "The October Country is many places: a picturesque Mexican village where death is a tourist attraction; a city beneath the city where drowned lovers are silently reunited; a carnival midway where a tiny man's most cherished fantasy can be fulfilled night after night. Each of the stories in Ray Bradbury's masterful collection is a wonder, imagined by an acclaimed tale-teller writing from a place of shadows. But there is astonishing beauty here as well, born from a prose that enchants and enthralls, that chills like a long-after-midnight wind, that lifts the reader high above a sleeping Earth on strange wings."--P. [4] of cover.
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- Fantasy fiction, American
- Horror tales, American
- American Science fiction
- American Fantasy fiction
- American Horror tales
- English Short stories
- Fiction, science fiction, short stories
- Fiction, fantasy, short stories
- Fiction, fantasy, collections & anthologies
- Unloveable Characters
- Weak Character Development
- Plot driven
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ISBN 9780345023018 · Ballantine Books