The Stories of Ray Bradbury

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.