Follow a space shuttle crew as they voyage sixty million miles from home; discover what happens when a writer ‘with the future’s eye’ believes his friend is aboard a UFO; and listen in on a couple talking themselves backwards through time to the moment when they first held hands. Meanwhile radio voices become indomitable flesh and the dead arise to recapture life in this searching and speculative collection of never-before published stories. Whether he’s exploring the myriad ways to be reborn, or the circumstances that can make any man a killer, or returning us to Mars, Bradbury opens the world to us and beckons us in…

It’s the week before Hallowe’en, and Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois. The siren song of the calliope entices all with promises of youth regained and dreams fulfilled . . .And as two boys trembling on the brink of manhood set out to explore the mysteries of the dark carnival’s smoke, mazes and mirrors, they will also discover the true price of innermost wishes . . .