http://cyberghostface.insanejournal.com/ ([identity profile] cyberghostface.insanejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2009-10-30 10:28 am
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The October Game



This is from Shock SuspenStories #9. 

This is the big "finale" to my EC posts. Nothing's set in stone, of course, but at the time being this is it. So just in time for Halloween, it's EC's adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "The October Game". Enjoy...















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[identity profile] stig.insanejournal.com 2009-10-30 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I think Bradbury's success, like Moore's or Gaiman's, is his ability to excel in a variety of genres seemingly effortlessly. He can completely turn on the creepy and horrid like this, or be incisive and heartwarming enough to be adapted into a children's play like this (http://fremontcentretheatre.com). It probably comes of his habit of never going a day without writing. Were it not a wee bit pretentious, I'd call him the American Shakespeare or H.G. Wells.

What's your favourite Ray story? Off the top of my head, I'd mention my all-time favourite, A Sound Of Thunder, along with The Veldt, Doodad, And The Moon Be Still As Bright, Way Up In The Air & its sequel, The Other Foot, The Inspired Chicken Motel, The Day It Rained Forever, Any Friend Of Nicholas Nickleby's Is A Friend Of Mine, The Town Where No-One Got Off, Here There Be Tygers, and my other all-time favourite, Dark They Were And Golden-Eyed.

[identity profile] sistermagpie.insanejournal.com 2009-10-30 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I think my favorite might be The Jar. And I love the opening paragraph of The April Witch. But this one's always been a favorite of mine too. I feel like I'm probably forgetting a lot of them.

[identity profile] halloweenjack.insanejournal.com 2009-10-30 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
“A Sound of Thunder”, definitely.
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[identity profile] stig.insanejournal.com 2009-10-30 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, and I almost forgot, there's an edition of "The Homecoming" illustrated by Dave McKean that is FANTASTIC. You should check it out.

[identity profile] neuhallidae.insanejournal.com 2009-10-31 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Short-story-wise, Zero Hour, because it was the only story of his that gave me honest to God nightmares as a kid.
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[personal profile] jlroberson 2012-06-07 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
"There Will Come Soft Rains." Beautiful, funny and sinister all at the same time. And not a single character in it.
http://www.jerrywbrown.com/datafile/datafile/110/ThereWillComeSoftRains_Bradbury.pdf
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