- Children's stories, Fiction, Halloween, Time travel
"A fast-moving, eerie...tale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr.
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Grave, earnest, plot-driven and relentless.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Ray Bradbury
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- BANTAM DOUBLEDAY @ DELL, Corgi, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 40
- Language
- German, French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9788445007204
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Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative. Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books, *The Martian Chronicles*, *The Illustrated Man*, *Fahrenheit 451* and *Something Wicked This Way Comes*, are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th Century -- and the 21st. In recognition of his stature i
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