Homesteading in the October Country

Ray Bradbury: The October Country (Avon Books, ISBN 0-380-97387-1).

This probably represents one of my favorite Bradbury collections, along with The Martian Chronicles (a collection of short stories often marketed as a novel) and Dandelion Wine (a novel? a collection?). It certainly contains some of his creepiest work. Read The Jar and tell me that you don't get shivers! "Here kitty, kitty!" The Dwarf is probably not-PC but is a great look at the way us shaved apes abuse each other. Skeleton is one that gave me nightmares as a kid.

Made up of: Homesteading the October Country (introduction); The Dwarf; The Next in Line; The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse; Skeleton; The Jar; The Lake; The Emissary; Touched with Fire; The Small Assassin; The Crowd; Jack-in-the-Box; The Scythe; Uncle Einar; The Wind; The Man Upstairs; There Was an Old Woman; The Cistern; Homecoming; The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone.

Counts as 20 contributions to the 2006 Short Story Project.