Series
Green Town
Ray Bradbury · 3 novels · 1 novelette · 26 short stories · 1 collection · 1946–2007
Green Town gathers two of Ray Bradbury's loosely linked novels set in his fictionalized version of his childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois: the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), in which a sinister traveling carnival led by the mysterious Mr. Dark descends on a small town and preys on its residents' desires, and the later Farewell Summer (2006), which follows Douglas Spaulding through an autumn stand-off between the town's boys and its elders. Written more than four decades apart, the two novels share Bradbury's recurring setting and nostalgic, myth-making tone rather than a single continuous plot.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Dandelion Wine(16 works)
Map
Green Town at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1940s3
- 1950s21
- 1960s1
- 1970s0
- 1980s1
- 1990s1
- 2000s4
Shape
3 novels · 1 novelette · 26 short stories · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:literary & generalcoming of agenorth americamid 20th centuryreflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 71% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book24 of 31 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Something Wicked This Way Comesdarkest
- Illuminationbrightest
- Exorcismcalmest
- The Whole Town's Sleepingmost intense