The October Country is a 1955 collection of nineteen macabre short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. It reprints fifteen of the twenty-seven stories of his 1947 collection Dark Carnival, and adds four more of his stories previously published elsewhere.
Ray Bradbury book The October Country
The Next in Line (1947)
Source: The October Country (1955)
Context: “Don’t these people ever get lonely?”
“They’re used to it this way.”
“Don’t they get afraid, then?”
”They have a religion for that.”
“I wish I had a religion.”
“The minute you get a religion you stop thinking,” he said. “Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”
“Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.”
Ray Bradbury book The October Country
Source: The October Country
“He stood very straight and thought of nothing, or at least thought of thinking nothing.”
Ray Bradbury book The October Country
Homecoming (1946)
The October Country (1955)
Ray Bradbury book The October Country
The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone (1954)
The October Country (1955)
