One More for the Road

Bram Stoker Award for Best Collection 2003.

America has no finer teller of tales than Ray Bradbury. Now the master treats us to another round – eighteen brand-new stories and seven previously published but never before collected – a rich elixir distilled from the pungent fruit of experience and imagination, expertly prepared by a superior mixologist.

This glass overflows with a heady brew: a house where time has no boundaries; the comforts of arguments eternal; the ghosts of dear friends, errant sons and lost fathers; the addictive terror of a pre-dawn phone call. It is a superb refreshment served with wit, heart, and flair by the incomparable Bradbury. And every satisfying swallow brings new surprises and revelations.

Contents:

• First Day
• Heart Transplant
• Quid Pro Quo
• After the Ball
• In Memoriam
• Tête-à-Tête
• The Dragon Danced at Midnight (aka The Year the Glop-Monster Won the Golden Lion at Cannes)
• The Nineteenth
• Beasts
• Autumn Afternoon
• Where All Is Emptiness There Is Room to Move
• One-Woman Show
• The Laurel and Hardy Alpha Centauri Farewell Tour
• Leftovers
• One More for the Road
• Tangerine
• With Smiles as Wide as Summer
• Time Intervening
• The Enemy in the Wheat
• Fore!
• My Son, Max
• The F. Scott/Tolstoy/Ahab Accumulator
• Well, What Do You Have to Say for Yourself?
• Diane de Forêt
• The Cricket on the Hearth
• Afterword: Metaphors, the Breakfast of Champions