Series
The Elliott Family
Ray Bradbury · 1 novel · 7 short stories · 1946–2001
Ray Bradbury's From the Dust Returned gathers and expands short stories he wrote across five decades about the Elliotts, a large, ancient family of vampires, ghosts, and other gentle monsters gathered in a rambling Illinois house. Framed by new connecting chapters, it follows the family's mortal foundling, Timothy, as the household prepares for a once-a-century homecoming.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
The Elliott Family at the centre, 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
- 1950s1
- 1960s0
- 1970s0
- 1980s2
- 1990s1
- 2000s1
Shape
1 novel · 7 short stories
1 author · completed series
reads like:fantasyfamily secretsour worldcontemporaryeerieadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 63% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book8 of 8 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Homecomingdarkest
- The April Witchbrightest
- From the Dust Returnedcalmest
- West of Octobermost intense