The October Country
 

The October Country

by Ray Bradbury, Joe Mugnaini

Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls "the Undiscovered Country" of his imagination--that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where the stories you now hold were born. America's premier living author of short fiction, Bradbury has spent many lifetimes in this remarkable place--strolling through empty, shadow-washed fields at midnight; exploring long-forgotten rooms gathering... (read more)

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Gothic Fiction 78 books / 135 members / 30 posts According to Wikipedia, gothic fiction combines horror and romance. "Prominent features of gothic fiction include terror (both psychological and physical), mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets and hereditary curses. The stock characters of gothic fiction include tyrants, villains, bandits, maniacs, Byronic heroes, persecuted maidens, femmes fatales, madwomen, magicians, vampires, werewolves, monsters, demons, revenants, ghosts, perambulating skeletons, the Wandering Jew and the Devil himself." A fan of Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Daphne Du Maurier, and others? Come join our group!
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