Long After Midnight

Long After Midnight is a short story collection by Ray Bradbury. Several of the stories are original to this collection. Others originally appeared in the magazines Planet Stories, Collier's Weekly, Playboy, Esquire, Welcome Aboard, Other Worlds, Cavalier, Gallery, McCall's, Woman's Day, Harper's, Charm, Weird Tales, Eros, and Penthouse.

Contents

• "The Blue Bottle"
• "One Timeless Spring"
• "The Parrot Who Met Papa"
• "The Burning Man"
• "A Piece of Wood"
• "The Messiah"
• "G.B.S.-Mark V"
• "The Utterly Perfect Murder"
• "Punishment Without Crime"
• "Getting Through Sunday Somehow"
• "Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds"
• "Interval in Sunlight"
• "A Story of Love"
• "The Wish"
• "Forever and the Earth"
• "The Better Part of Wisdom"
• "Darling Adolf"
• "The Miracles of Jamie"
• "The October Game"
• "The Pumpernickel"
• "Long After Midnight"
• "Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You!"

Reception

Writing in The New York Times, Gerald Jonas gave the collection a scathing review, saying that the stories "reveal Bradbury at his worst -- dressing up the sentimental cliches of mass magazine fiction in various s.f. or fantasy disguises." Jonas noted that Long After Midnight contained little recent work, but was mostly decades-old fiction passed over when compiling prior collections.^[1] Associated Press books editor Phil Thomas, however, praised the collection as "filled with the sense of wonder that marks so much of Bradbury's work."^[2]

References

• "Library of Congress Online Catalog". http://catalog.loc.gov. Retrieved 2007-12-11. 
• Contento, William G.. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition". http://contento.best.vwh.net/t16.htm#A353. Retrieved 2007-12-11.