Long After Midnight

This volume is the last of Bradbury's great short story collections, and my personal favorite. "One Timeless Spring" is a unique coming-of-age tale of a 12-year-old who is convinced his parents are poisoning him; "The Utterly Perfect Murder" details a 48-year-old's revenge on the boy who bullied him when they were 12; "Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You!" depicts the relationship between a Catholic priest and the rotund young man who periodically comes to confession to talk of his peculiar obsession; "The Parrot Who Met Papa" is an utterly hilarious spoof of Hemingway (or maybe Chandler) and his literary groupies; the title story is a very different one for Bradbury, about a lonely oceanside suicide … and then there are some of Bradbury's usual stories about friendly robots and light horror. A truly marvelous mix."

( James McCabe, The SF Examiner)


–The Blue Bottle, 1950. (as Death Wish, in Planet Stories, Fall, 1950.)
–One Timeless Spring, 1946. (Collier's, April 13, 1946.)
–The Parrot Who Met Papa, 1972. (Playboy, January, 1972.)
–The Burning Man, 1976.
–A Piece of Wood, 1952. (Esquire, June, 1952.)
–The Messiah, 1971. (Welcome Aboard, Spring, 1971.)
–G.B.S. - Mark V, 1976.
–The Utterly Perfect Murder, 1971. (as My Perfect Murder, in Playboy, August, 1971.)
–Punishment Without Crime, 1950. (Other Worlds, March, 1950.)
–Getting Through Sunday Somehow, 1976.
–Drink Entire: Against the Madness of Crowds, 1976. (Gallery, 1976.)
–Interval in Sunlight, 1954. (Esquire, March, 1954.)
–A Story of Love, 1976.
–The Wish, 1976. (Woman's Day Magazine, 1976.)
–Forever and the Earth, 1950. (Planet Stories, Spring, 1950.)
–The Better Part of Wisdom, 1976.
–Darling Adolf, 1976.
–The Miracles of Jamie, 1946. (Charm, April, 1946.)
–The October Game, 1948. (Weird Tales, March, 1948.)
–The Pumpernickel, 1951. (Collier's, May 19, 1951.)
–Long After Midnight, 1962. (Eros, Winter, 1962.)
–Have I Got a Chocolate Bar for You! 1976. (Penthouse, 1976.)