Jonathan R. Eller is a Chancellor's Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis, the senior textual editor of the Institute for American Thought, and director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at IUPUI. Ray Bradbury Unbound and its predecessor Becoming Ray Bradbury were each finalists for the Locus Award in the Nonfiction category.

Finalist for the Locus Award, Nonfiction category, 2015.— Locus Award

• Acknowledgments / xiIntroduction / 1Part I. A Place in the Sun / 51 Loomings / 72 Strangers in a Strange Land / 123 Indecisions, Visions, and Revisions / 174 Fatal Attraction / 225 A Whale of a Tale / 286 "Floreat!" / 337 A Place in the Sun / 39P art II. T he End of the Beginning / 458 Post-Scripts / 479 Invitations to the Dance / 5510 Pictures within Pictures: The October Country / 6111 Laughton and Hitchcock / 6712 "The First to Catch a Circus in a Lie Is a Boy" / 7413 Various Wines / 8114 The End of the Beginning / 89P art III. Dark Carnivals / 9715 Strange Interlude: Dandelion Wine / 9916 Return to Hollywood / 10617 "And the Rock Cried Out" / 11018 Berenson at Sunset / 11619 The Unforeseen / 12020 Dreams Deferred / 12821 The Great Wide World / 13322 The Dreamers / 13923 Dark Carnivals / 144Part IV. "Cry the Cosmos" / 15124 Medicines for Melancholy / 15325 Escape Velocity / 15926 Martian Odyssey / 16727 "Cry the Cosmos" / 17528 In the Twilight Zone / 18229 Something Wicked This Way Comes / 19130 Out of the Deeps / 20031 Machineries of Joy / 208Part V. I f the Sun Dies / 21732 A Backward Glance / 21933 Stops of Various Quills / 22534 The World of Ray Bradbury / 23235 If the Sun Dies / 23736 Truffaut's Phoenix / 24237 A Colder Eye / 25038 The Isolated Man / 25739 A Touch of the Poet / 26340 "Christus Apollo" / 26941 "Take Me Home" / 277Notes / 285Index / 301Illustrations follow pages 96 and 216

Jonathan R. Eller is a Chancellor's Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis, the senior textual editor of the Institute for American Thought, and director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at IUPUI. Ray Bradbury Unbound and its predecessor Becoming Ray Bradbury were each finalists for the Locus Award in the Nonfiction category.

Finalist for the Locus Award, Nonfiction category, 2015.— Locus Award

• Acknowledgments / xiIntroduction / 1Part I. A Place in the Sun / 51 Loomings / 72 Strangers in a Strange Land / 123 Indecisions, Visions, and Revisions / 174 Fatal Attraction / 225 A Whale of a Tale / 286 "Floreat!" / 337 A Place in the Sun / 39P art II. T he End of the Beginning / 458 Post-Scripts / 479 Invitations to the Dance / 5510 Pictures within Pictures: The October Country / 6111 Laughton and Hitchcock / 6712 "The First to Catch a Circus in a Lie Is a Boy" / 7413 Various Wines / 8114 The End of the Beginning / 89P art III. Dark Carnivals / 9715 Strange Interlude: Dandelion Wine / 9916 Return to Hollywood / 10617 "And the Rock Cried Out" / 11018 Berenson at Sunset / 11619 The Unforeseen / 12020 Dreams Deferred / 12821 The Great Wide World / 13322 The Dreamers / 13923 Dark Carnivals / 144Part IV. "Cry the Cosmos" / 15124 Medicines for Melancholy / 15325 Escape Velocity / 15926 Martian Odyssey / 16727 "Cry the Cosmos" / 17528 In the Twilight Zone / 18229 Something Wicked This Way Comes / 19130 Out of the Deeps / 20031 Machineries of Joy / 208Part V. I f the Sun Dies / 21732 A Backward Glance / 21933 Stops of Various Quills / 22534 The World of Ray Bradbury / 23235 If the Sun Dies / 23736 Truffaut's Phoenix / 24237 A Colder Eye / 25038 The Isolated Man / 25739 A Touch of the Poet / 26340 "Christus Apollo" / 26941 "Take Me Home" / 277Notes / 285Index / 301Illustrations follow pages 96 and 216