A Medicine for Melancholy

Ray Bradbury
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Contents: 9 • In a Season of Calm Weather (1957) 18 • The Dragon (1955) 23 • A Medicine for Melancholy 36 • The End of the Beginning (1956) 43 • The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit • non-genre (1958) 71 • Fever Dream (1948) 81 • The Marriage Mender (1954) 88 • The Town Where No One Got Off (1958) 99 • A Scent of Sarsaparilla (1953) 109 • Icarus Montgolfier Wright (1956) 117 • The Headpiece (1958) 128 • Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed (1949) 146 • The Smile (1952) 153 • The First Night of Lent (1956) 163 • The Time of Going Away (1956) 173 • All Summer in a Day (1954) 182 • The Gift (1952) 186 • The Great Collision of Monday Last (1958) 195 • The Little Mice (1955) 203 • The Shore Line at Sunset (1959) (variant of The Shoreline at Sunset) 216 • The Strawberry Window (1955) 227 • The Day It Rained Forever (1957)
Genres: Short StoriesScience FictionFictionFantasyCollectionsClassicsAnthologiesScience Fiction FantasyAmericanHorror
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