Ratings5
Average rating3.8
The Night
Homecoming
Uncle Einar
The Traveler
The Lake
The Coffin
The Crowd
The Scythe
There Was an Old Woman
There Will Come Soft Rains
Mars is Heaven
The Silent Towns
The Earth Men
The Off Season
The Million-Year Picnic
The Fox and the Forest
Kaleidoscope
The Rocket Man
Marionettes, Inc.
No Particular Night or Morning
The City
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The lesson from this is to check the page count before you request a book of short stories. I only read 19 of the 99 stories in this collection. Bradbury is at his best, for me, when he builds a sense of dread and ends up hitting you in the face at the end. My favorites were “The Night”, “The Million-Year Picnic”, “The Veldt”, and “A Sound of Thunder”. And the award for the most wtf story definitely goes to “The Small Assassin”. That one messed me up.