Driving Blind

Twenty-one unpredictable tales journey from Illinois front porches to midnight trains and the far reaches of space.

The incomparable Ray Bradbury is in the driver's seat, off on twenty-one unforgettable excursions through fantasy, time and memory, and there are surprises waiting around every curve and behind each mile marker.

Across sun-baked border towns and darkened club cars, the author introduces a velvet-hooded stranger behind the wheel of a 1929 Studebaker alongside amateur card players lured into midnight wagers.

These stories summon two elderly sisters climbing into a dusty attic after thirty stolen love letters, while an ancient one-ring circus trembles under the weight of an arthritic camel and an aerialist suspended by her teeth. The journey promises to be a memorable one.

• Small Town Setting: An elderly matriarch barricades herself inside her upstairs bedroom, convinced that her grandson-in-law's newly installed kitchen disposal is an insatiable carnivore waiting to consume her.
• Unreliable Narrator: Dining in a Parisian restaurant window as a glamorous decoy, an impoverished art student is unable to tell whether his staged romance has become real.
• Also by This Author: Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man.