Ray Bradbury's 10 best books

The Monitor picks the 10 best titles from sci-fi titan Ray Bradbury.

7. 'Dark Carnival'

Bradbury’s first short story collection published in 1947 is a collection of Bradbury’s earliest dark fantasy and horror. Originally intended to be titled “The Child’s Garden of Terrors,” it put to use Bradbury’s famously nightmare-ridden childhood imaginings.

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