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Arkham House. Publication date. 1947. Media type. Print (hardback) Pages. 313. Dark Carnival is a short story collection by American writer Ray Bradbury, first published October 1947 by Arkham House. It was his debut book, and many of the stories were reprinted elsewhere.
Dark Carnival was published in 1947 by Arkham House, and kudos to them. it showcases a writer who appears fully-formed, with decades of life experience under his belt. his prose is sublime. prose like poetry, as they say. his descriptions of scents! surely one of the hardest things to truly capture in words; Bradbury, with ease, uses the smell ...
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Apr 28, 2023 · Bradbury wrote horror stories for the first few years of his career as he learned his craft. Early stories were published in fanzines and pulp SF magazines in the late 1930s and early 1940s. His first book was Dark Carnival, a collection of short stories published by Arkham House in 1947.
“Dark Carnival,” published in the United States by Arkham House in 1947, stands as one of Ray Bradbury’s earliest short story collections and is widely regarded as a pivotal work in the evolution of American science fiction. This collection assembles 27 pieces penned between 1943 and 1947, with several having been previously featured in magazines.
Dark Carnival was Bradbury's first published book. 3,112 copies were printed by Arkham House, under the editorial direction of August Derleth. All but six of the stories had been first published elsewhere, although Bradbury revised some of the texts.
Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on August 22, 1920. By the time he was eleven, he had already begun writing his own stories on butcher paper. His family moved fairly frequently, and he graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. He had no further formal education, but he studied on his own at the library and continued to write.
Ray Bradbury was identified as a science fiction and fantasy writer once he came to prominence, but he started off writing horror. He wrote for Weird Tales magazine in the 40s, and his first collection published in the mid 40s, Dark Carnival, was almost entirely horror. Bradbury and Richard Matheson, both of whom belonged to the Californian ...
