The Million Year Picnic and Other Stories
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This collection includes all 15 of Elder's humorous Panic stories (The Night Before Christmas" got the first issue banned in the entire state of Massachusetts); all seven of his science fiction tales from the pages of Weird Science and Weird Fantasy (including two Ray Bradbury adaptations, "The King of the Grey Spaces!" and "The Million-Year Picnic"); and a special horror story that hasn't been seen since its original publication more than 60 years ago.
Will Elder
Will Elder was an American illustrator and comic book artist who worked in numerous areas of commercial art but is best known for a frantically funny cartoon style that helped launch Harvey Kurtzman's MAD comic book in 1952. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2003.
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury (22 August 1920 – 5 June 2012) published some 500 short stories, novels, plays and poems since his first story appeared in Weird Tales when he was twenty years old. Among his many famous works are 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'The Illustrated Man,' and 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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