Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury

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He published in Weird Tales and The New Yorker. Just how many writers can claim such a dichotomous literary distinction? This seemingly incongruous slice of publication history only begins to illuminate the breadth, range, and wonder of the Ray Bradbury canon.

With a creative output encompassing groundbreaking works of science fiction, universally recognized tales of fantasy, and award-winning realist contemporary prose, Ray Bradbury has spent his entire career ignoring and blurring the boundaries between genre and literature. To be sure, he is part of a select cadre of authors who have performed a sort of literary legerdemain. They are, at once, creators of the innovative and the mind-bending, writers who, along the way, gate-crashed the hallowed halls of literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Shirley Jackson, Jorge Luis Borges—and very few others.

This accomplished group of authors (and other powerhouses such as Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, and Tennessee Williams, who also examined the boundaries between literature and genre with great success but with less frequency) often wrote what might be deemed “genre fiction” to artfully examine the human condition in a new and original light.

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