Ray Bradbury

Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. is Professor of Theatre Arts at Loyola Marymount University, a seven-time Bram Stoker Award nominee, and the editor or author of over 30 books.

• Acknowledgments - Jonathan Maberry, Foreword: Meeting Ray Bradbury - Jonathan Eller, Preface: Bradbury: Through the Looking Glass - Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Introduction: “I’m aware of his work…” / Building Wings on the Way Down - I. Theorizing Bradbury - Gamze Hakli Geray, Ray Bradbury's Metaphoric Pen: A Fusion of Joy, Passion, Purpose and Climate Conscious Narratives - Zachary D. Schmoll, Leisure and the Happiness Machine in Dandelion Wine (1957) - S. G. Ellerhoff, Imagining Transgender Realities in “The Long-After-Midnight Girl” (1962) - II. Future/Past in Short Fiction - J. Patrick Mullins, A Million Fragments of Memory: The Origins of Ray Bradbury’s Authorial Voice in “The Night” (1943) - Asma Azza Dridi, From World’s Fairs to Wonderful Tales: Bradbury’s Reflections on the Paradox of Technological Progress in “Marionettes, Inc.” (1949) and “I Sing the Body Electric” (1969) - Victor Monnin, Bradbury’s Artistic Dinosaurs in Dinosaur Tales (1983) and Others - James Williams Reath, “The Man in the Rorschach Shirt” (1966) - J. Patrick Mullins, The Child in “The Lake” (1944): Bradbury’s Creative Remembrance and a Forgotten Family Death - III. Dark Carnival / Dark Bradbury - Christian Wilken, Illustrated Men and Mischievous Skeletons: The Object-Realm in Ray Bradbury’s Fiction - Brett Z. Chancery, Ray Bradbury and the Metaphor of Horror - Christopher Tuthill, Bradbury’s Detective Fiction as Autobiography in Death is a Lonely Business (1985), A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990) and Let’s All Kill Constance (2002) - Miranda Corcoran, “All the bonfires and subtle burnings of the season”: Halloween as Carnivalesque Death Festival in the Fiction of Ray Bradbury, in The Halloween Tree (1972) and Others - Simon Bacon, “By Any Other Name”: Ray Bradbury’s Vampires - IV. To Mars: The Martian Chronicles (1950) and Others - Sean C. Hadley, A Red Planet Vision: Tradition in Bradbury’s Martian Fiction - John P. Irish, Mirrors of Mars: Cold War Deception and Identity in Bradbury’s “The Third Expedition” - Riccardo Gramantieri, Posthuman Ray Bradbury - Faith Ennis, Ray Bradbury and the Family - V. “There Remained Only That Empty Space”: The Illustrated Man (1951) - Meltem Dağcı, Body and Fear Metaphors in Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man - Devika Yadav, The Violence of the Search in Selected Short Stories of Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man - VI. “It Was a Pleasure to Burn”: Fahrenheit 451 (1953) - Mónica Viviana Fanny Gruber, Adaptations of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 Beyond Film: From Literature to Arts and Design - Nahida Kibria Choudhury, The Burning of Humanity and History: Bradbury, Book Burning, and Fahrenheit 451 - VII. International Bradbury - Martina Jauch, Ray Bradbury’s Legacy of Protest and Free Speech in Post-War German Science Fiction - Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Bradbury in Spanish: Dictatorship and Metaphor in Historias para no Dormir (1966–1968) - Emrecan Doğan, Bradbury's Adventure in the Turkish Language - VIII. Bradbury and the Performing Arts - Reba A. Wissner, Composing the Body Electric: Ray Bradbury, Nathan Van Cleave, and the Sound of The Twilight Zone’s “I Sing the Body Electric” (1962) - Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Performing Bradbury: Martians by Charlie Mount and Jeff G. Rack (2018) - Roger Terry, Afterword: The Live-Forever Method (Zen in the Art of Writing, 1990) - Bibliography - Notes on Contributors - Index