Bradbury referred to this novel as his favorite book, his most "delicious" book. It analyzes the varied ways that evil can be a temptation to man, and it is the most heavily allegorical novel which he has written thus far. This novel is Bradbury's most extensive treatment of the reality of evil. Here, all of his imaginative powers are unleashed to produce an eerie, even nightmarish, novel in which the powers of evil are made manifest through the arrival of the Cooger and Dark Carnival in Green Town, Illinois. Something Wicked This Way Comes evolved as a direct result of this fondness for carnivals. Undaunted, though, he returned to re-observe the circus banner which, for him, in spite of his catastrophe, had lost none of its excitement. Once, as a lad, he was so enthralled by a red and yellow circus banner that he fell down a window pit, shattered one of the glass panes, and crashed into a cellar barbershop. Bradbury readily admits that he has always loved carnivals, magicians, mind readers, and skeletons.
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