Why Ray Bradbury Still Haunts Me

Publicity photo of Ray Bradbury from the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 1959. CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Dear Living Dark reader,

Each year when autumn arrives, I’m drawn by a kind of delicate inner gravity to revisit the works of Ray Bradbury, and to recharge his fictional, philosophical, and spiritual vision within me. I suppose that’s because this season with its heightened emotional tone of a bittersweet, energetic delight, mingled with gloom and melan...