A Medicine for Melancholy
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A Medicine for Melancholy (1959) is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury
. It was first published in the UK by Hart-Davis
in 1959 as The Day It Rained Forever with a slightly different list of stories.
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
. It was first published in the UK by Hart-Davis
Rupert Hart-Davis
Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis was an English publisher, editor and man of letters. He founded the publishing company Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd...
in 1959 as The Day It Rained Forever with a slightly different list of stories.
Contents
| Story | US Edition | UK Edition |
|---|---|---|
| "In a Season of Calm Weather" | 1 | 4 |
| "The Dragon The Dragon (story) The Dragon is a short story by author Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in 1955 in the magazine Esquire. A limited edition of the story was published by Footsteps Press in 1988.... " |
2 | 9 |
| "A Medicine for Melancholy" | 3 | |
| "The End of the Beginning" | 4 | 18 |
| "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit" | 5 | 15 |
| "Fever Dream" | 6 | 2 |
| "The Marriage Mender" | 7 | 12 |
| "The Town Where No One Got Off" | 8 | 7 |
| "A Scent of Sarsaparilla" | 9 | 5 |
| "Icarus Montgolfier Wright" | 10 | 3 |
| "The Headpiece" | 11 | 13 |
| "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury. It was originally published in the magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories in August 1949... " |
12 | 17 |
| "The Smile" | 13 | 11 |
| "The First Night of Lent" | 14 | |
| "The Time of Going Away" | 15 | 14 |
| "All Summer in a Day All Summer in a Day "All Summer in a Day" is a "All Summer in a Day" is a "All Summer in a Day" is a [[short science fiction story ] by the author [[Ray Bradbury]]... " |
16 | |
| "The Gift" | 17 | 10 |
| "The Great Collision of Monday Last" | 18 | |
| "The Little Mice" | 19 | 16 |
| "The Shore Line at Sunset", vt "The Sunset Harp" (UK ed.) | 20 | 22 |
| "The Strawberry Window" | 21 | 6 |
| "The Day It Rained Forever" | 22 | 1 |
| "Referent" | 21 | |
| "Almost the End of the World" | 20 | |
| "Here There Be Tygers Here There Be Tygers "Here There Be Tygers" is a short story written by Ray Bradbury, originally published in the anthology New Tales of Space and Time in 1951. It was later collected in Bradbury's short story collections R is for Rocket and The Golden Apples of the Sun... " |
8 | |
| "Perchance to Dream" | 23 | |
| "And the Rock Cried Out" | 19 |