The Machineries of Joy

Ray Bradbury

• Publisher: HarperVoyager
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780007539833
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

One of Ray Bradbury's classic short story collections, available in ebook for the first time.

In this book you will meet: a Hollywood monster-maker whose Tyrannosaurus Rex suddenly becomes alarmingly lifelike; a boy who raises giant mushrooms in his cellar – until the mushrooms begin to raise him; a corpse who supports his wife and family; a circus fat lady whose midget husband has tattooed every inch of her mammoth body with fantastically intricate designs.

Plus seventeen other amazing tales by Ray Bradbury, master of fantastic fiction, author of the Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• The Machineries of Joy
• The One Who Waits
• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• The Vacation
• The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
• Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in your Cellarl
• Almost the End of the World
• Perhaps we are Going Away
• And the Sailor, Home from the Sea
• El Día de Muerte
• The Illustrated Woman
• Some Live Like Lazarus
• A Miracle of Rare Device
• And So Died Riabouchinska
• The Beggar on O’connell Bridge
• Death and the Maiden
• A Flight of Ravens
• The Best of all Possible Worlds
• The Lifework of Juan Díaz
• To the Chicago Abyss
• The Anthem Sprinters
• Keep Reading
• About the Author
• Also by the Author
• About the Publisher