Re: Ray Bradbury

"Zspider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "palmer.william wrote:
> > While people often allude
> > to his lighter, whimsical stories,  Bradbury's horror
> > tales are among the best ever written.   What amazes
> > me even more is that he wrote what may be the
> > best Gothic short story to date, and he wrote it long
> > before the word Gothic has the meaning it does
> > today as a result of the Goth movement.   The story
> > I refer to is "Pillar of Fire."   It is Gothic and "Goth"--
> > and yet was written back in the Fifties.
>
> ******************
> Darn it!  I was trying to remember this story when I was
> browsing through the Bradbury offerings at Barnes and
> Noble today.  I'm not for certain, but I don't think I saw
> this one in any of the collections.

S IS FOR SPACE is the Bantam paperback
anthology that kept "Piller of Fire" in print during
most of the 1970's, if not later.   I am sure the story
 must have appeared in other anthologies as well.
In the above-mentioned p.b. anthology, the story is
credited to Love Romances Publishing Company,
Inc., in 1948, which simply suggests it originally
appeared in one of the late-1940's sf pulps, so
I was not quite correct in my guess that it was a
Fifties' story.  Ray Bradbury wrote it even earlier
than that, and in my own view, rather than dating,
it has become even more terrifyingly relevant.
>
> Michael