Something Wicked This Way Comes in Classics Without All the Class

Oct 27, 2021 rachel rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: spooky-season, 2021

My friend Zach mentioned American Horror Story in conversation about this book, and I realized that both worked for me for the same reason: there's often a blend of nostalgia and campiness/humor working on the surface, but its underbelly is dark and has teeth.

I had thought of Something Wicked This Way Comes as more of a Halloween or autumn classic than a horror classic. I was not expecting it to be as genuinely frightening as it was at times. There are countless horror productions now that owe ...more

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Mar 04, 2019 Beth rated it it was ok

Shelves: horror, fiction, 2019-read, 52-book-challenge

I went into this novel with high hopes; I expected something tense, creepy and with an undercurrent of malevolence. I was disappointed. Whilst it did have some vestiges of creepiness, and I enjoyed the atmosphere of the carnival that Bradbury invoked, I couldn't lose myself in the story, mostly due to the rampant over-use of metaphor and huge paragraphs of unnecessary description which did nothing but pull me out of the story.
For example, this is how he describes a tent coming down:
“Now this g ...more

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Mar 06, 2016 Brenda H marked it as tbr · review of another edition

Shelves: 1960s-published

I am approx 50 pages into this book (which is about 25% of the book) and am still having a difficult time getting into it. I hope it gets more interesting.

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