The Stories of Ray Bradbury

The Stories of Ray Bradbury

dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Ray Bradbury
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy, horror short stories
Publisher	Knopf
Publication date	1980
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	912 pp
ISBN	0-394-51335-5
OCLC	6222486
Dewey Decimal	813/.54
LC Class	PS3503.R167 A6 1980

The Stories of Ray Bradbury (ISBN 0-394-51335-5) is, as the title suggests, an anthology containing 100 short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury and was first published by Knopf in 1980. The hundred stories, written from 1943 to 1980, were selected by the author himself. Bradbury's work had previously been collected in various compilations, such as The Martian Chronicles and The October Country, but never in such a large volume (912 pages) or spanning such a long period of time.

Some of the more famous stories in this collection include "The Fog Horn", "The Veldt", "The Day It Rained Forever", "The Small Assassin" and "I Sing the Body Electric!".

In 2003, Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales was published, containing a further 100 stories from later in his career. Although they sound similar, the two anthologies have entirely different contents and should not be confused.

Contents

1. "The Night", 1946
2. "Homecoming", 1946
3. "Uncle Einar", 1947
4. "The Traveler", 1946
5. "The Lake", 1944
6. "The Coffin", 1947
7. "The Crowd", 1943.
8. "The Scythe", 1943
9. "There Was an Old Woman", 1944
10. "There Will Come Soft Rains", 1950
11. "Mars Is Heaven!", 1948
12. "The Silent Towns", 1949
13. "The Earth Men", 1948
14. "The Off Season", 1948
15. "The Million-Year Picnic", 1946
16. "The Fox and the Forest", 1950
17. "Kaleidoscope", 1949
18. "The Rocket Man", 1951
19. "Marionettes, Inc.", 1949
20. "No Particular Night or Morning", 1951
21. "The City", 1950
22. "The Fire Balloons", 1951
23. "The Last Night of the World", 1951
24. "The Veldt", 1950
25. "The Long Rain", 1950
26. "The Great Fire", 1949
27. "The Wilderness", 1952
28. "A Sound of Thunder", 1952
29. "The Murderer", 1953
30. "The April Witch", 1952
31. "Invisible Boy", 1945
32. "The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind", 1953
33. "The Fog Horn", 1951.
34. "The Big Black and White Game", 1945
35. "Embroidery", 1951
36. "The Golden Apples of the Sun", 1953
37. "Powerhouse", 1948
38. "Hail and Farewell", 1948
39. "The Great Wide World over There", 1952
40. "The Playground", 1953
41. "Skeleton", 1943
42. "The Man Upstairs", 1947
43. "Touched by Fire", 1954
44. "The Emissary", 1947
45. "The Jar", 1944
46. "The Small Assassin", 1946
47. "The Next in Line", 1947
48. "Jack-in-the-Box", 1947
49. "The Leave-Taking", 1957
50. "Exorcism", 1957
51. "The Happiness Machine", 1957
52. "Calling Mexico", 1950
53. "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit", 1958
54. "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed", 1949
55. "The Strawberry Window", 1954
56. "A Scent of Sarsaparilla", 1953
57. "The Picasso Summer", 1957
58. "The Day It Rained Forever", 1957
59. "A Medicine for Melancholy", 1959
60. "The Shoreline at Sunset", 1959
61. "Fever Dream", 1959
62. "The Town Where No One Got Off", 1958
63. "All Summer in a Day", 1954
64. "Frost and Fire", 1946
65. "The Anthem Sprinters", 1963
66. "And So Died Riabouchinska", 1953
67. "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!", 1962
68. "The Vacation", 1963
69. "The Illustrated Woman", 1961
70. "Some Live Like Lazarus", 1960
71. "The Best of All Possible Worlds", 1960
72. "The One Who Waits", 1949
73. "Tyrannosaurus Rex", 1962
74. "The Screaming Woman", 1951
75. "The Terrible Conflagration Up at the Place", 1969.
76. "Night Call, Collect", 1949
77. "The Tombling Day", 1952
78. "The Haunting of the New", 1969
79. "Tomorrow's Child", 1948
80. "I Sing the Body Electric!", 1969
81. "The Women", 1948
82. "The Inspired Chicken Motel", 1969
83. "Yes, We'll Gather at the River", 1969
84. "Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You!", 1976
85. "A Story of Love", 1951
86. "The Parrot Who Met Papa", 1972
87. "The October Game", 1948
88. "Punishment Without Crime", 1950
89. "A Piece of Wood", 1952
90. "The Blue Bottle", 1950
91. "Long After Midnight", 1962
92. "The Utterly Perfect Murder", 1971
93. "The Better Part of Wisdom", 1976
94. "Interval in Sunlight", 1954
95. "The Black Ferris", 1948
96. "Farewell Summer", 1980 (first publication)
97. "McGillahee's Brat", 1970
98. "The Aqueduct", 1979
99. "Gotcha!" 1978
100. "The End of the Beginning", 1956

References

• Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition". Retrieved 2007-12-12. 

External links

• The Stories of Ray Bradbury title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• The Stories of Ray Bradbury {{{issue}}} publication contents at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Raybradbury online