Long After Midnight
World Fantasy Best Collection nominee 1977.
In these fantastical, chilling, haungingly nostalgic tales you enter the master storyteller's special world where... A man can destroy the future by coming out of the past. Two drifters in space search through the dead cities of Mars for the fabled Blue Bottle. A young boy falls in love with a beautiful teacher who can't wait for him to grow up. A jealous husband shoots the perfect android replica of his unfaithful wife and is charged with robot murder. A man journeys back into the past to commit the perfect crime of revenge. Plus sixteen other strange hauntings and celebrations.
Contents:
- The Blue Bottle
- One Timeless Spring
- The Parrot Who Met Papa
- The Burning Man
- A Piece of Wood
- The Messiah
- G.B.S. – Mark V
- The Utterly Perfect Murder
- Punishment Without Crime
- Getting Through Sunday Somehow
- Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds
- Interval in Sunlight
- A Story of Love
- The Wish
- Forever and the Earth
- The Better Part of Wisdom
- Darling Adolf
- The Miracles of Jamie
- The October Game
- The Pumpernickel
- Long After Midnight
- Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You!
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (1920-2012) was an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951), Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th and 21st century American writers of speculative fiction.