Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (1962) Simon & Schuster

The Carnival comes to town in October and two boys are caught up in the magic of the sinister Mr. Dark.  The language is unusually flowery by Bradbury and the three states, mad, madder, maddest, etc. seems to overpopulate the prose.  If an editor got hold of it today, it would be shorter.  But the basic good vs. evil comes through.  The book was published in 1962 and the movie came out twenty years later, the screenplay also written by the author.  I like the book’s opening better than the movie and the special effects seemed to be the movie’s overdone part. 

We have a local book and a movie club - this was our pick for October.