Ray Bradbury Books in Order

This illustrated volume brings together two versions of Bradbury's story Skeleton. Both explore the disturbing idea of a man becoming aware of the bones inside him, with Dave McKean's artwork accompanying the paired tales.

A family of vampires, witches and other supernatural beings gathers for a reunion. Timothy, their human child, longs to join their extraordinary world and must confront what it means to belong when he is different.

Bradbury's first story collection gathers tales of horror and fantasy in which familiar places conceal unsettling possibilities. Strange neighbors, death and childhood fears appear in stories including The Homecoming, The Small Assassin and The Next in Line.

Linked stories follow humanity's expeditions to Mars and the settlers who try to make it a new home. Encounters with Martians expose human fears and ambitions, while Earth's conflicts threaten the lives being built elsewhere.

George and Lydia Hadley worry about their children's virtual nursery, which repeatedly creates an African landscape populated by lions. Their attempt to regain authority raises disturbing questions about a home that has replaced parental care.

An automated house continues cooking, cleaning and announcing the time after a nuclear disaster has emptied the surrounding city. Its daily routines unfold without people, exposing the gap between technological convenience and the fragile lives it once served.

Wealthy hunter Eckels travels into the distant past to shoot a dinosaur under strict supervision. The guides insist he stay on a designated path, because even a tiny disturbance could change the world he returns to.

Two lighthouse keepers hear their fog horn answered by a creature from the sea. As it approaches, they consider whether the lonely animal has mistaken the mechanical sound for the call of another of its kind.

A traveler's encounter with a tattooed stranger introduces stories that appear to move across the man's skin. These tales explore space travel, dangerous technology and human longing, linking imagined futures to familiar emotional conflicts.

This collection brings together thirty-two stories spanning Bradbury's science fiction and fantasy. Its title tale sends a hunter into the prehistoric past, where strict rules are meant to protect the future from a seemingly minor mistake.

Guy Montag burns books for a living in a society that discourages independent thought. Meeting a questioning young neighbor unsettles him, and his growing interest in forbidden reading places his work, marriage and safety in conflict.

Stories range from a lonely lighthouse and a prehistoric hunting trip to unsettling encounters in everyday life. Bradbury explores wonder, violence and human desire through tales including The Fog Horn, The Pedestrian and A Sound of Thunder.

A widower fears that playground cruelty will traumatize his young son as it once hurt him. His sister argues the boy must learn to face life, but Charles discovers a disturbing way to spare him the experience.

Nineteen stories bring horror into homes, towns and family relationships. A mother fears her newborn, a sick boy depends on his dog and a farmer inherits troubling responsibilities, turning ordinary hopes into encounters with the unknown.

Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding experiences the summer of 1928 in a small Illinois town. Everyday adventures, family rituals and encounters with loss deepen his awareness of being alive and of the changes that time brings.

Bradbury's stories combine science fiction, fantasy and everyday human concerns. Their subjects include an artist drawing in beach sand, colonists adapting to Mars and a shared white suit, exploring longing and wonder through unexpected encounters.

Three men await rain at a desert hotel, Martian settlers notice themselves changing and an attic offers a passage into childhood. These stories explore memory, homesickness and the unexpected possibilities hidden in apparently ordinary lives.

This collection gathers seventeen stories about space travel, strange worlds and the hopes and risks of discovery. Young dreamers, astronauts and time travelers face experiences that connect scientific possibilities with recognizable fears and desires.

A mysterious carnival arrives in Green Town, offering residents the fulfillment of their secret wishes. Friends Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade discover its dangerous powers and turn to Will's father as temptation threatens their town.

Thirteen horror and fantasy stories explore fears concealed within family life and familiar surroundings. The title story follows a mother who suspects her newborn intends to kill her, alongside tales of strange crowds, neighbors and death.

Plays inspired by Bradbury's time in Ireland turn local encounters into comic dramas. Pub conversations, a collision and races to leave the cinema before the anthem offer a theatrical look at everyday rivalries and eccentric behavior.

These stories move between everyday life and disturbing fantasy, introducing a monster-maker, dangerous mushrooms and unusual circus performers. Familiar hopes, anxieties and relationships take unexpected forms as Bradbury explores the strange possibilities beneath ordinary appearances.

Eight horror and crime stories by Bradbury appear as comic adaptations drawn from EC's publications. Black-and-white artwork gives visual form to unsettling tales including The Small Assassin, The Screaming Woman and There Was an Old Woman.

Bradbury selects stories spanning science fiction, fantasy and ordinary human longing. Children confront dangerous technology, men share a transformative white suit and a man fears his own bones, revealing strange possibilities within familiar desires and anxieties.

Sixteen stories explore imagined futures and unsettling possibilities, from a scientist's mysterious transformation to children befriending invaders. Journeys through time, life on Mars and encounters with dangerous inventions connect scientific speculation with human fear and hope.

Eight Bradbury science fiction stories are adapted into comics originally published by EC. Their imagined futures include drifting rockets, journeys beyond Earth and an apparently familiar town on Mars, with artwork bringing the strange encounters into view.

This omnibus combines The Golden Apples of the Sun and A Medicine for Melancholy. Its stories move between speculative adventures and everyday encounters, exploring time travel, memory, space exploration and the unexpected turns of human desire.

This anthology pairs horror stories by Ray Bradbury and Robert Bloch, compiled by Kurt Singer. Bradbury's contributions include Fever Dream, The Watchers, The Dead Man and The Handler, offering several approaches to fear and the uncanny.

Bradbury's story collection ranges from family life to imagined worlds. A grieving household receives an electrical grandmother, a parrot preserves a writer's voice and other unusual encounters explore love, memory and the desire for human connection.

Eight boys follow the mysterious Moundshroud through different times and cultures to find their missing friend Pipkin. Their Halloween journey reveals the origins of their costumes and celebrations as they struggle to keep friendship from becoming loss.

Three plays adapt Bradbury stories for the stage. Men share a white suit that changes their confidence, a virtual nursery troubles a family and a man in a ruined world preserves memories others would rather forget.

Bradbury's poetry collection reflects on childhood, home and everyday experiences while also looking toward space travel. Its poems bring the interests of his fiction into verse, joining personal memories with imagined journeys and celebrations of life.

Three plays adapt Bradbury's stories Pillar of Fire, Kaleidoscope and The Fog Horn. A resurrected man, astronauts stranded in space and lighthouse keepers facing a sea creature confront fear, isolation and the need for connection.

Edited by Anthony Adams, this selection gathers Bradbury stories including The Veldt, The Fog Horn and A Sound of Thunder. Discussion material accompanies tales that explore technology, fear and human choices through fantasy and science fiction.

These stories follow desires that lead people into strange or dangerous situations. Drifters search Mars for a mysterious bottle, a husband orders an android duplicate and an adult revisits an old tormentor, mixing longing with unease.

This poetry collection considers human imagination, technology and the possibilities of machines alongside reflections on culture and life. The title poem weighs the risks and promise of a world where people and robots live together.

Archie Lieberman's photographs of Guanajuato's preserved bodies accompany a Bradbury story inspired by the Mexican town's mummies. The combination of fiction and images explores the unsettling presence of death and the feelings it provokes in the living.

This illustrated selection gathers The Other Foot, The April Witch and The Veldt, with a brief author biography. The three stories offer different encounters with Bradbury's fantasy and science fiction, exploring exclusion, longing and dangerous technology.

This volume pairs The Last Circus with The Electrocution, bringing together a new story and an earlier tale. William F. Nolan's introduction, Joe Mugnaini's illustrations and Bradbury's essay Under the Mushroom Tent accompany the fiction.

Bradbury selects one hundred stories from the first four decades of his career for this collection. The volume brings together his science fiction, fantasy, and horror, presenting a broad cross-section of the short fiction that preceded his later collections.

This poetry collection moves between speculative inventions and everyday pleasures, with subjects including dinosaurs, Ty Cobb, strawberry shortcake, and the Vatican. Bradbury's verse places memories, imagined machines, religious imagery, and ordinary experience within the same varied volume.

This omnibus gathers Bradbury's three earlier poetry collections, including The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope and When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed. It brings his verse about imagined worlds and personal experience together in one volume.

A young Martian becomes fascinated by a woman visiting his planet from Earth and develops feelings for her from a distance. His hopes for contact unfold against the threat of disease and the vulnerability of his dwindling world.

Fifteen mystery and crime stories bring together Bradbury's investigations of suspicious deaths, threatened victims, and sinister encounters. The collection includes The Small Assassin, The Trunk Lady, and Four-Way Funeral, alongside other tales of murder and concealed danger.

Four stories and two poems explore Bradbury's fascination with dinosaurs, accompanied by illustrations and a foreword by Ray Harryhausen. Encounters include a prehistoric hunting expedition, a creature drawn to a lighthouse, and a boy determined to become a dinosaur.

In 1950s Venice, California, a young writer notices disturbing calls, strange deliveries, and deaths among his neighbors. With detective Elmo Crumley and a reclusive actress, he begins investigating whether seemingly unrelated accidents conceal a deliberate pattern of murder.

This illustrated survey presents works from Playboy's art collection, including commissioned illustrations and other pieces assembled by the magazine. Bradbury contributes commentary on individual works and their relationships, placing varied artists and styles alongside one another throughout the volume.

Bradbury's poems appear alongside photographs of cats in this short illustrated collection, introduced by poet Helen Bevington. The volume brings together his writing and feline images in a compact presentation distinct from his larger books of collected verse.

Thirteen-year-old Charles becomes convinced that his illness is changing parts of his body into something alien to him. His parents and doctor dismiss the fear as feverish imagination while he struggles to explain the disturbing changes he experiences.

Eleven essays draw on Bradbury's experiences writing stories, novels, plays, poetry, and scripts. He discusses inspiration, enthusiasm, and the pleasure of creation, describing the habits and discoveries that shaped his working life rather than prescribing a technical writing system.

Twenty-three stories range across ghosts, childhood, storytelling, and imagined futures. In the title tale, a man's claim to have visited a better future offers hope to the present, while other pieces explore frightening encounters and the persistence of memory.

A young screenwriter working at Maximus Films encounters a terrifying discovery beside the studio's neighboring graveyard on Halloween in 1954. His effort to understand it draws him into Hollywood's hidden history and the secrets surrounding the people making movies.

This collection combines stories from A Medicine for Melancholy and S Is for Space, excluding material already gathered in Classic Stories 1. Its science fiction and fantasy include The Pedestrian, All Summer in a Day, and The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit.

Jean-Michel Folon's paintings, prints, objects, and transformations of found materials are presented in this exhibition catalog. Bradbury contributes an essay, joined by Sabine Rewald's interview and William Lieberman's commentary, placing Folon's imagery beside discussions of his artistic practice.

This anthology gathers baseball fiction by a broad range of writers, including Ray Bradbury, alongside contributions credited to Phil Hersh and Bill Bryson. Its stories focus on players and the game, offering varied literary takes on America’s pastime.

Bradbury's essays consider how cities, transport, architecture, museums, and cultural spaces might develop. Drawing on his interest in public life and imagination, he explores possible futures for the places people inhabit and the arts they encounter there.

A young American writer travels to Ireland in 1953 to work with director John Huston on the screenplay for Moby Dick. Their difficult collaboration unfolds alongside encounters with village residents, Irish customs, and the unexpected pleasures of life abroad.

This collection ranges through strange encounters, alternative futures, and unsettling domestic lives, often with dark humor. Its characters include ghosts of Laurel and Hardy, an ancient murderous couple, and a witch doctor whose activities unsettle a family's expectations.

Twenty-one stories explore unsettling encounters, memory, and the passage of time through science fiction and fantasy. Pieces including Night Train to Babylon, A House Divided, and Driving Blind bring ordinary lives into contact with unexpected or inexplicable circumstances.

Lost in the desert, young Ahmed cries out and awakens the god Gonn-Ben-Allah. Their encounter carries the boy beyond his immediate predicament into a journey through time and space, opening unfamiliar perspectives on life and the world around him.

Tom Hutchinson traces actor Rod Steiger's life from a difficult childhood through naval service and the Actors Studio to major film roles. With a foreword by Bradbury, the biography also examines the depression that affected Steiger's later career.

Edited by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish, this Halloween anthology combines horror fiction with poems, essays, and personal recollections about the holiday. Its broad contributor list includes Dean Koontz, Ray Bradbury, Peter Straub, and many other genre writers.

Poems, stories and essays explore mortality, religion and the possibility of an afterlife. Bradbury brings his interest in science fiction into questions of faith, connecting imaginative visions of other worlds with reflections on human hope and belief.

The supernatural Elliott family gathers in its strange Illinois house, where ghosts, vampires, and wandering minds share a history. Their human adopted son Timothy records family memories as Cecy's dreams and Uncle Einar's troubles reveal the inhabitants' unusual lives.

Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy compare earlier visions of space exploration with subsequent achievements, then consider possibilities through 2050. Illustrated with art and photographs and introduced by Bradbury, the book explores tourism, commerce, colonies, and environmental questions.

Twenty-five stories, including eighteen new pieces and seven previously uncollected ones, explore time, grief, and uncanny encounters. Their imagined situations include a house without time, a world afflicted by sorrow, and meetings with figures thought lost to the past.

One hundred stories drawn from six decades of Bradbury's work range across speculative futures, everyday anxieties, and mysterious encounters. The selection includes The Illustrated Man, The Toynbee Convector, and The Pedestrian, alongside many other examples of his short fiction.

Aging actress Constance Rattigan arrives at a writer's Venice home with two ominous books linking names to death, then disappears. The writer and detective Elmo Crumley follow her trail through old Hollywood, investigating the danger apparently gathering around her.

This volume collects Bradbury's short fiction across science fiction, fantasy, and recollections of ordinary life. Stories including The Rocket, The Flying Machine, and The Drummer Boy of Shiloh place imagined inventions beside historical settings and intimate human experiences.

New stories and previously unpublished work from earlier decades appear together in this collection. Its encounters include racial discrimination among boys, a circus-linked response to violence, and a divided household whose residents retreat into their own heavily guarded spaces.

An Oxford Bookworms Collection volume containing ten short stories by writers including Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, and Joanna Trollope. Compiled by Christine Lindop, it brings together a varied selection of concise fiction for English-language readers.

Bradbury reflects on childhood, meetings with famous people, creativity, and the imagined future in this collection of essays and recollections. Personal memories sit beside his opinions about the arts, the cosmos, and the experiences that shaped his writing.

During an unusually warm October in Green Town, thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding and his friends confront the town's older residents. Their struggle, especially with Calvin Quartermain, brings fears about aging and the desire to preserve childhood into open conflict.

Edited by Donn Albright, this archival collection traces the development of Fahrenheit 451 through earlier stories, drafts, and related material. The Fireman appears among texts revealing how Bradbury gradually developed the ideas and fiction behind the eventual novel.

Two novellas pair a journalist's discovery of an Arizona town with ageless residents and no children with a futuristic voyage inspired by Moby Dick. In Leviathan '99, a blind spaceship captain pursues a comet with his crew.

This chapbook brings together the previously unpublished title story, another short tale, and screenplay material connected to The Fox and the Forest. Reproductions of manuscript pages accompany the texts, offering a glimpse of Bradbury's fiction and work for the screen.

Stories return to Green Town's streets, homes, and remembered summers, exploring lives beyond the better-known events of Dandelion Wine. Episodes involve sisters and a love potion, a teacher's unexpected romance, and a young girl's discovery of disturbing evidence.

Five stories and a previously unpublished screen treatment explore robots and their relationships with people. Human replicas and an artificial grandmother appear in tales including Marionettes, Inc., The Changeling, and I Sing the Body Electric, linking technology to domestic life.

Previously unpublished stories combine memories, unusual encounters, and unsettling possibilities in this collection. Pieces including The Visit, Doubles, and Arrival and Departure bring Bradbury's interest in nostalgia and the uncanny to characters facing unexpected changes in familiar circumstances.

Sixteen stories and novellas trace ideas that developed into Fahrenheit 451, including threats to books, imagination, and individual freedom. The collection includes The Pedestrian, Pillar of Fire, Long After Midnight, and The Fireman, presenting earlier forms of related concerns.

Sam Weller's interviews with Bradbury, gathered over a decade, explore the writer's memories, creative habits, and ideas about the future. Their conversations connect his personal history and literary career with the mixture of nostalgia and invention that informed his work.

Edited by William F. Touponce and Jonathan R. Eller, this critical edition arranges Bradbury's stories from 1938 through 1943 chronologically. Early versions, thirteen previously uncollected tales, and textual commentaries document changes in the fiction and his development as a writer.

Edited by Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan, this anthology collects horror set around circuses, carnivals, and fairgrounds. Bradbury's contribution appears alongside work by writers including Joe Hill and John Connolly, bringing unsettling possibilities into places associated with entertainment.

Bradbury's screenplay follows Nemo through a dream world inspired by Winsor McCay's comic strip. Beginning at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, it brings the Princess, Dr. Pill, and Flip into a succession of imagined adventures.

This critical edition presents Bradbury's early stories from 1943 and 1944 in their earliest surviving forms. Historical commentary, textual notes, and restored material reveal how tales changed before appearing in his later collections and story cycles.

The third critical volume collects twenty-two stories written between March 1944 and March 1945. Restored typescripts and magazine texts, accompanied by scholarly commentary, document Bradbury's developing style and the pressures of publishing in pulp markets.

Twenty crime stories explore murder and detection through Bradbury's speculative imagination. Robots, a ventriloquist's dummy, time travel, and surviving conjoined twins complicate familiar questions about culpability, testimony, revenge, and the pursuit of a killer.

Bradbury's All Summer in a Day is paired with Jason Marchi's sequel, When the Rain Stops. The volume revisits Margot's experience on rain-soaked Venus, where children await a rare glimpse of sunlight through persistent clouds.

Rocket passenger Halloway is terrified by the journey to Mars and the distance from Earth. The ship's psychiatrist constructs a comforting illusion of home, leaving Halloway to interpret unfamiliar encounters through a deliberately altered sense of reality.