A Medicine for Melancholy
Book of short stories
0-380-73086-3 (paperback reprint)A Medicine for Melancholy (1959) is a collection of short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. It was first published in the UK by Hart-Davis in 1959 as The Day It Rained Forever with a slightly different list of stories. All of the included stories were previously published.
Contents
The British and American editions each had a different selection of stories, as well as ordering.
| Story | US Edition | UK Edition |
|---|---|---|
| "In a Season of Calm Weather" (filmed as The Picasso Summer, 1969) | 1 | 4 |
| "The Dragon" | 2 | 9 |
| "A Medicine for Melancholy" | 3 | |
| "The End of the Beginning" | 4 | 18 |
| "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit" | 5 | 15 |
| "Fever Dream" | 6 | 2 |
| "The Marriage Mender" | 7 | 12 |
| "The Town Where No One Got Off" | 8 | 7 |
| "A Scent of Sarsaparilla" | 9 | 5 |
| "Icarus Montgolfier Wright" | 10 | 3 |
| "The Headpiece" | 11 | 13 |
| "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" | 12 | 17 |
| "The Smile" | 13 | 11 |
| "The First Night of Lent" | 14 | |
| "The Time of Going Away" | 15 | 14 |
| "All Summer in a Day" | 16 | |
| "The Gift" | 17 | 10 |
| "The Great Collision of Monday Last" | 18 | |
| "The Little Mice" | 19 | 16 |
| "The Shore Line at Sunset", vt "The Sunset Harp" (UK ed.) | 20 | 22 |
| "The Strawberry Window" | 21 | 6 |
| "The Day It Rained Forever" | 22 | 1 |
| "Referent" | 21 | |
| "Almost the End of the World" | 20 | |
| "Here There Be Tygers" | 8 | |
| "Perchance to Dream" | 23 | |
| "And the Rock Cried Out" | 19 |
Reception
Floyd C. Gale rated the collection four stars out of five, writing that "Bradbury's touch breathes fantasy into his most prosaic items ... all have an intense emotional impact".[1]
See also
- Ray Bradbury bibliography
- Ray Bradbury short fiction bibliography
References
- ^ Gale, Floyd C. (1959). "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf". Galaxy. pp. 146–150. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
- Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition". Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 63. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
External links
- A Medicine for Melancholy title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- A Medicine for Melancholy publication contents at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The Day It Rained Forever title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The Day It Rained Forever publication contents at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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Bibliography (Short fiction)
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- Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
- Dandelion Wine (1957)
- Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)
- The Halloween Tree (1972)
- Death Is a Lonely Business (1985)
- A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990)
- Green Shadows, White Whale (1992)
- From the Dust Returned (2001)
- Let's All Kill Constance (2002)
- Farewell Summer (2006)
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- "The Scythe" (1943)
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- "The Lake" (1944)
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- "The Million Year Picnic" (1946)
- "The Small Assassin" (1946)
- "I See You Never" (1947)
- "Fever Dream" (1948)
- "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" (1948)
- "The Long Years" (1948)
- "Mars Is Heaven!" (1948)
- "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" (1949)
- "The Exiles" (1949)
- "Marionettes, Inc." (1949)
- "The Long Rain" (1950)
- "The Rocket" (1950)
- "There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950)
- "The Veldt" (1950)
- "Ylla" (1950)
- "Embroidery" (1951)
- "The Fog Horn" (1951)
- "Here There Be Tygers" (1951)
- "The Pedestrian" (1951)
- "The April Witch" (1952)
- "A Sound of Thunder" (1952)
- "The Wilderness" (1952)
- "The Flying Machine" (1953)
- "The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind" (1953)
- "The Meadow" (1953)
- "The Murderer" (1953)
- "Sun and Shadow" (1953)
- "All Summer in a Day" (1954)
- "The Dragon" (1955)
- "The Aqueduct" (1979)
- "Banshee" (1984)
- "The Toynbee Convector" (1984)
- "Is That You, Herb?" (2003)
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- The Illustrated Man (1951)
- The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
- The October Country (1955)
- A Medicine for Melancholy (1959)
- The Day It Rained Forever (1959)
- The Small Assassin (1962)
- R Is for Rocket (1962)
- The Machineries of Joy (1964)
- The Vintage Bradbury (1965)
- S Is for Space (1966)
- Twice 22 (1966)
- I Sing the Body Electric! (1969)
- Ray Bradbury (1975)
- Long After Midnight (1976)
- The Fog Horn & Other Stories (1979)
- The Last Circus and the Electrocution (1980)
- The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980)
- The Fog Horn and Other Stories (1980)
- Dinosaur Tales (1983)
- A Memory of Murder (1984)
- The Toynbee Convector (1988)
- Classic Stories 1 (1990)
- Classic Stories 2 (1990)
- The Parrot Who Met Papa (1991)
- Selected from Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed (1991)
- Quicker Than the Eye (1996)
- Driving Blind (1997)
- Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories (2001)
- One More for the Road (2002)
- Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003)
- The Cat's Pajamas: Stories (2004)
- A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (2005)
- The Dragon Who Ate His Tail (2007)
- Summer Morning, Summer Night (2007)
- A Pleasure to Burn (2010)
- The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury (2011, 2014)
- The Meadow (1947)
- The Flying Machine: A One-Act Play for Three Men (1953)
- The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays (1972)
- Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (1975)
- The Martian Chronicles (1986)
- The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1986)
- Fahrenheit 451 (1986)
- Dandelion Wine (1988)
- The Veldt (1988)
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- "I Sing the Body Electric" (1962)
- The Autumn People (1965)
- Tomorrow Midnight (1966)
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
- The Picasso Summer (1969)
- The Illustrated Man (1969)
- The Martian Chronicles (1980 miniseries)
- The Electric Grandmother (1982)
- Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
- Bradbury 13 (radio series, 1983–84)
- Fahrenheit 451 (1984)
- "The Burning Man" (1985)
- The Veldt (1987)
- The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV series, 1985–86, 1988-1992)
- The Halloween Tree (1993)
- Dandelion Wine (1997)
- The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)
- A Sound of Thunder (2005)
- Ray Bradbury's Chrysalis (2008)
- The Whispers (2015)
- Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
- Futuria Fantasia (1939–1940)
- The Mummies of Guanajuato (1978)
- Zen in the Art of Writing (1990)
- It Came from Outer Space (2003 book)
- Bettina F. Bradbury (daughter)
- Spaceship Earth
- Bradbury Landing
- Ray Bradbury Award
- Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury
- Dandelion crater
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