Praise for DARK CARNIVAL by Ray Bradbury. On Schedule to be Published This Summer.

Our edition of Ray Bradbury's Dark Carnival—featuring more than thirty interior illustrations, plus a full-color wraparound dust jacket and endsheets by Dave McKean is moving along nicely at the printer, which expects to complete the job in April. Once the books are done, we'll send a copy out to have the slipcases constructed.

Assuming everything goes well, we'll see finished copies this summer. Our edition of Dark Carnival has been a dream project, one we can't wait to share with everyone.

We produced a very limited number of ARCs (Advance Reading Copies, for those not in the publishing biz) and sent a few to authors we though might have something to say.

Here's Caitlín R. Kiernan's take on Bradbury's lengendary collection:

“Dark Carnival might almost stand as an all-purpose description of, if not all, so much of Ray Bradbury’s fiction. It’s amazing how just two short words can say so much about so brilliant a man and his work. Windy autumn nights, the wine smell of ground-fall apples, childhood, terrible things and unspeakable wonders, the monstrous things men can be and the very human nature of monstrosity. You may have encountered most of these tales in later incarnations of this collection, primarily 1955’s October Country. That’s where I first read many of them, so many of what would go on to become some of my very favorite Bradbury stories— ‘The Lake,’ ‘Homecoming,’ ‘The Jar,’ ‘Uncle Einar.’ But first, in 1947, there was Dark Carnival, thanks to Arkham House. Stories from Bradbury’s early years, and already they’re works of undeniable genius. A dark carnival, indeed, fit for no better land than an October country!”