Something Wicked This Way Comes

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Something Wicked This Way Comes is a dark fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury that follows two boys confronting a sinister traveling carnival that descends upon their small Midwestern town.

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instanceOf dark fantasy novel
novel
author Ray Bradbury
centralEvent arrival of a sinister traveling carnival
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
coverArtist Gray Foy
filmAdaptationDirector Jack Clayton
filmAdaptationProducer Walt Disney Productions
followedBy Farewell Summer
genre dark fantasy
fantasy
horror
hasAdaptation Something Wicked This Way Comes self-linksurface differs
surface form: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983 film)
hasAntagonist Cooger
Mr. Dark
hasCharacter Charles Halloway
Miss Foley
Mr. Cooger
The Dust Witch
hasMediaType hardcover
paperback
print
hasMotif autumn
carnival
carousel that alters age
hasOrganization Pandemonium Shadow Show
surface form: Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show
hasPageCountApprox ~293 pages
influencedBy Ray Bradbury's earlier short story "Black Ferris"
isPartOf Green Town series
literaryMovement American speculative fiction
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableQuoteSource "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes" from Shakespeare's Macbeth
originalLanguage English
precededBy Dandelion Wine
protagonist Jim Nightshade
Will Halloway
publicationYear 1962
publisher Simon & Schuster
setIn fictional town of Green Town, Illinois
settingRegion Midwestern United States
structure prose fiction
targetAudience young adult readers
theme father–son relationship
fear of aging
friendship
good versus evil
temptation
timePeriodOfSetting 20th century

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Ray Bradbury notableWork Something Wicked This Way Comes
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this entity surface form: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983 film)
Dandelion Wine followedBy Something Wicked This Way Comes
James Stacy notableWork Something Wicked This Way Comes
Jack Clayton notableWork Something Wicked This Way Comes
this entity surface form: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983 film)
Jack Clayton directed Something Wicked This Way Comes
this entity surface form: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983 film)
Jack Clayton basedOn Something Wicked This Way Comes
this entity surface form: Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury