Horror Classics – Ray Bradbury
Is Ray Bradbury
particular genre, except to say that what he writes is classic “genre” fiction (meaning anywhere from Sci Fi/Fantasy to Supernatural to Horror). Bradbury’s works from Fahrenheit 451
I’m not here to tout the man and his accomplishments – I’m obviously an avid fan of his writing. I simply see in Bradbury’s work something that is taking hold in many “modern” circles (can I say that? Ray Bradbury’s still alive…) What I see is that many writers are mixing and matching genres. You can see it in the Sci Fi/Horror Novel Infected by Scott Sigler. Stephen King writes Horror stories that are also Fantastic – as seen in The Shining or The Talisman
Back to Ray Bradbury. Here is an author who helped redefine the genre when Horror was not a genre at all, and I thank him for that.
What are your thoughts? Any comments on Ray Bradbury, his work? What’s your favorite Ray Bradbury book and why? I expect your reports tomorrow morning, bright and early. LOL.
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I haven’t read any of Ray’s work! Makes me sad.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:45 pmStephen King wrote the classic It -which they made into a movie so I watched that instead. Then I picked p Tommyknockers – which they made into a movie mid-way, so I set it down.
BUT! I read Jurassic Park, Sphere and Phantoms before they got they’re clutches on them!
Arthur was telling me about King – he rented his autobiography on CD. Stephen struggled with drugs and Tommyknockers was about his addiction to cocaine. You could become really intelligent but it ate your soul to do it.
He gave three or four really good examples.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:48 pmYou should read Ray’s work. It’s amazing. I highly recommend starting with The Illustrated Man. It’s a horror story with sci fi and fantasy short stories intermingled with the overall story. It’s brilliant. If you buy it from Amazon, buy it via the links on my site because then I’ll get a commission (yay!).
The book Stephen King wrote with autobiographical info in it is On Writing and is a fantastic book. It’s mostly autobiographical with a bunch of great writing tips in there too.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:04 pmhaha ^^ nice, is there a section to follow the RSS feed
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