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cyberghostface (cyberghostface) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-30 10:28:00

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creator: jack kamen, creator: ray bradbury, publisher: ec comics, theme: halloween, title: shock suspenstories

The October Game

This is from Shock SuspenStories #9.

This is the big "finale" to my EC posts. Nothing's set in stone, of course, but at the time being this is it. So just in time for Halloween, it's EC's adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "The October Game". Enjoy...

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	halloweenjack 2009-10-30 03:13 pm UTC (link)
	"The two silent denouncers of his virility, his dark power..." Damn, Ray. Damn. shivers (Reply to this) (Thread)

jlroberson
2009-10-30 04:55 pm UTC (link)

Keep in mind, Bradbury often adopted a subjective-third-person voice, tainted with the viewpoint of the protagonist.

Then again, the other Bradbury story in SHOCK was "Small Assassin," in which an evil baby murders his mom. There's a lot of post-war gynophobia, and fear of domesticity, in his work, certainly. But then, those were the anxieties of those who'd buy what his work was in, after all.

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	halloweenjack 2009-10-30 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I wasn't assuming that Bradbury was/is psycho, just complementing him on a really good line. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ex_stig213
2009-10-30 06:44 pm UTC (link)

I think Bradbury's success, like Moore's or Gaiman's, is his ability to excel in a variety of genres seemingly effortlessly. He can completely turn on the creepy and horrid like this, or be incisive and heartwarming enough to be adapted into a children's play like this. It probably comes of his habit of never going a day without writing. Were it not a wee bit pretentious, I'd call him the American Shakespeare or H.G. Wells.

What's your favourite Ray story? Off the top of my head, I'd mention my all-time favourite, A Sound Of Thunder, along with The Veldt, Doodad, And The Moon Be Still As Bright, Way Up In The Air & its sequel, The Other Foot, The Inspired Chicken Motel, The Day It Rained Forever, Any Friend Of Nicholas Nickleby's Is A Friend Of Mine, The Town Where No-One Got Off, Here There Be Tygers, and my other all-time favourite, Dark They Were And Golden-Eyed.

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	sistermagpie 2009-10-30 08:15 pm UTC (link)
	I think my favorite might be The Jar. And I love the opening paragraph of The April Witch. But this one's always been a favorite of mine too. I feel like I'm probably forgetting a lot of them. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	halloweenjack 2009-10-30 09:25 pm UTC (link)
	“A Sound of Thunder”, definitely. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_stig213 2009-10-30 10:10 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, and I almost forgot, there's an edition of "The Homecoming" illustrated by Dave McKean that is FANTASTIC. You should check it out. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	neuhallidae 2009-10-31 02:27 am UTC (link)
	Short-story-wise, Zero Hour, because it was the only story of his that gave me honest to God nightmares as a kid. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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