A Medicine for Melancholy

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A Medicine for Melancholy
Dust-jacket illustration from the first edition
Author	Ray Bradbury
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Soft science fiction short stories
Publisher	Doubleday & Company
Publication date	1959
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	240 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0380730863 (paperback reprint)

A Medicine for Melancholy (1959) is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. It was released in the UK as The Day It Rained Forever with a slightly different list of stories.

[edit] Contents

"In a Season of Calm Weather"
"The Dragon"
"A Medicine for Melancholy"
"The End of the Beginning"
"The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit"
"Fever Dream"
"The Marriage Mender"
"The Town Where No One Got Off"
"A Scent of Sarsaparilla"
"Icarus Montgolfier Wright"
"The Headpiece"
"Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed"
"The Smile"
"The First Night of Lent"
"The Time of Going Away"
"All Summer in a Day"
"The Gift"
"The Great Collision of Monday Last"
"The Little Mice"
"The Shore Line at Sunset"
"The Strawberry Window"
"The Day It Rained Forever"

Cover from a reprint edition

[edit] Differences in editions

The British edition, published by Hart-Davis in 1959 as The Day It Rained Forever omits "A Medicine for Melancholy", "The First Night of Lent", "All Summer in a Day" and "The Great Collision of Monday Last", replacing them with "Referent", "Almost the End of the World", "Here There Be Tygers", "Perchance to Dream" and "And the Rock Cried Out". Additionally, the story "The Shoreline at Sunset" is titled "The Sunset Harp" in the UK edition.