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La foire des ténèbres (1962)

par Ray Bradbury

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By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

The carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour of a chill Midwestern October eve. Ushering in Halloween a week before its time, a calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Young boyhood companions James Nightshade and Will Halloway are the first to heed its call. From a place of safety, they watch a midway come to spectral life, their emotions a riot of eagerness, trepidation, bravado, and uncertainty. For they can sense the change that's in the air; that this is the Autumn in which innocence must vanish in the harsh, acrid smoke of disillusionment...and horror.

Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two inquisitive boys standing precariously on the brink of adulthood will soon discover the secret of the satanic raree-show's mazes and mirrors, as they learn all too well the heavy cost of wishes and the stuff of nightmares.

All those who still dream and remember? ?and those who have heard the whispering but have yet to experience its dark, poetic power? ?you are welcome. A shadow show like none other is about to begin...again… (plus d'informations)

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Ray Bradbury is a titan of the genre, yes, and I appreciate everything that he has every done for fantasy and horror literature. But truth be told, I think that I cannot abide his writing. This is the second Bradbury I've read - the first being A Graveyard for Lunatics - and I had a similar problem with them: the story is amazing, the thought behind it is so well done, but the actual writing is very very hard to enjoy. I loved the concepts touched upon in this book - aging, mortality, good and evil, love (both from family members and closest friends), and Faustian deals - but because the writing was so prose-heavy, I found I often was just skimming the pages to get to the next bit of action. ( )
  viiemzee | Feb 20, 2023 |
This reread was rprfect for October :) Now, on to my next Halloween read. ( )
  ulan25 | Feb 14, 2023 |
Looks like I won't be finishing this one. I had started it and was vaguely interested but then Jeff picked it up and he's almost done. He does not give it a good recommendation and, knowing my annoyance with overt and probably-not-even-noticed-by-the-author sexist (or really any ist) novels, thinks I would not enjoy it. Too many good books out there so am skipping this one.
  sgwordy | Dec 31, 2022 |
It was ok. Having heard so much about it, I was excited to get into this, but the writing style was laborious, and at times, it felt like there was a lot of observation going on and not much in plot development. I think it probably reflected a type of child I. That place and time, and the more fantastical and horrific elements of it, played to those childhood fears of the time. ( )
  aadyer | Dec 18, 2022 |
I have a problem with Bradbury. I think he's too lyrical for me.

I enjoy his descriptions and the way he merges them with memories from everyday life, but all that romanticism didn't work for me in Something Wicked This Way Comes. It actually distracted me a lot from the main plot. This was a first for me, since I enjoy poetic and nostalgic expressions and I am mystified as to why I didn't like it.

Maybe I expected something else, maybe it didn't go with the story (13 year olds describing things like a 50 year old would, is not very convincing), maybe I should have read it when I was a teenager, maybe I shouldn't have "read" it as an audiobook. I don't know.

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  Silenostar | Dec 7, 2022 |
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Titre canonique
La foire des ténèbres
Titre original
Something Wicked this Way Comes
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Date de première publication
1962
Personnes ou personnages
William Halloway
James Nightshade
Charles William Halloway
J. C. Cooger
G. M. Dark
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Green Town, Illinois, USA (Fictional)
Illinois, USA
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Halloween
Films connexes
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983 | IMDb)
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The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels: The Reader's List (65)
Locus 1987 Poll, All-Time Best Fantasy Novel (22)
Locus 1998 Poll, All-Time Best Fantasy Novel Before 1990 (32)
Image: 100 Writers of Faith
Horror: Another 100 Best Books (47)
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Man is in love, and loves what vanishes.
W.B. Yeats

They sleep not, except they have done mischief;
And their sleep is taken away,
  unless they cause some to fall.
For they eat the bread of wickedness,
And they drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs 4:16-17

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.
Stubb in Moby Dick
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With gratitude to
Jennet Johnson
who taught me how to write the short story
and to
Snow Longley Housh
who taught me poetry at Los Angeles High School a long time ago
and to
Jack Guss
who helped with this novel not so long ago
With love to the memory of GENE KELLY, whose performances influenced and changed my life
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Prologue
First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.
The seller of lightning rods arrived just ahead of the storm.
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Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose. Her ears hear music I might sing half the night through; therefore I love her ears. Her eyes delight in seasons of the land; and so I love those eyes. Her tongue knows quince, peach, chokeberry, mint and lime; I love to hear it speaking. Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain. Shared and once again shared experience. Billions of prickling textures. Cut one sense away, cut part of life away. Cut two senses; life halves itself on the instant. We love what we know, we love what we are. Common cause, common cause, of mouth, eye, ear, tongue, hand, nose, flesh, heart, and soul.
"Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the biggest load of sin. There are smiles and smiles; learn to tell the dark variety from the light. The seal-barker, laugh-shouter, half the time he's covering up. He's had his fun and he's guilty. And men do love sin. Will, oh how they love it, never doubt, in all shapes, sizes, colors, and smells. Times come when troughs, not tables, suit our appetites. Hear a man too loudly praising others and look to wonder if he didn't just get up from the sty. On the other hand, that unhappy, pale, put-upon man walking by, who looks all guilt and sin, why, often that's your good man with a capitol G, Will. For being good is a fearful occupation; men strain at it and sometimes break in two. I've known a few. You work twice as hard to be a farmer as his to be his hog. I suppose it's thinking about being good that makes the crack run up the wall one night. A man with high standards, too, the least hair falls on him sometimes wilts his spine. He can't let himself alone, won't lift himself off the hook if he falls just a breath from grace."
And, Will thought, here comes the carnival, Death like a rattle in one hand, Life like candy in the other; shake one to scare you, offer one to make your mouth water. Here comes the side show, both hands full!
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Fantasy.Fiction.Science Fiction.HTML:

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

The carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour of a chill Midwestern October eve. Ushering in Halloween a week before its time, a calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Young boyhood companions James Nightshade and Will Halloway are the first to heed its call. From a place of safety, they watch a midway come to spectral life, their emotions a riot of eagerness, trepidation, bravado, and uncertainty. For they can sense the change that's in the air; that this is the Autumn in which innocence must vanish in the harsh, acrid smoke of disillusionment...and horror.

Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two inquisitive boys standing precariously on the brink of adulthood will soon discover the secret of the satanic raree-show's mazes and mirrors, as they learn all too well the heavy cost of wishes and the stuff of nightmares.

All those who still dream and remember? ?and those who have heard the whispering but have yet to experience its dark, poetic power? ?you are welcome. A shadow show like none other is about to begin...again

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