Other tales offer startling ideas that unfortunately are obscured or damaged by poor or eccentric dramatizations: a U-boat captain turned psychoanalyst the world's architects forming a grand historical conspiracy to build cities where they'll inevitably he destroyed, thus ensuring an endless supply of work a Victorian pastiche about a vampire predator and a Dorian Gray variant. Also, the fantasy elements are mostly small or absent altogether and-a Bradbury trademark-many of the stories lean heavily on nostalgia, or come drenched in sentiment: imaginary children, ghosts, fairgrounds and magic shows, dead dogs, mad inventors, mysterious doorways, books, graveyards, adolescence. A collection of 21 tales from the Grandfather fantasist-none of which have appeared in book form before, though our galley doesn't tell us where they have appeared before, if they have, or when they were written.
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