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A Graveyard for Lunatics
Ray Douglas Bradbury
One of Ray Bradbury’s classic novels, available in ebook for the first time.Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery – and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.
A GRAVEYARD FOR LUNATICS
Another Tale of Two Cities
RAY BRADBURY
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Dedication (#ulink_2f869ed7-e468-5af3-8c7c-79c3bad0790a)
With love, to the living:
SID STEBEL,
who showed me how to solve
my own mystery;
ALEXANDRA, my daughter,
who cleaned up after us.
And to the dead:
FEDERICO FELLINI,
ROUBEN MAMOULIAN,
GEORGE CUKOR,
JOHN HUSTON,
BILL SKALL,
FRITZ LANG,
JAMES WONG HOWE,
and GEORGE BURNS,
who told me that I was a writer
when I was fourteen.
And to
RAY HARRYHAUSEN,
for obvious reasons.
Contents
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Title Page (#u8435cb65-0a5b-5dc7-b58c-c9efc89f2a81)
Copyright
Dedication
Chapter 1 (#ulink_06364173-2bce-547c-9fa4-4126873e4d0d)
Chapter 2 (#ulink_d80c4237-1f32-524c-b66b-945b6f655898)
Chapter 3 (#ulink_f46aa9ed-de7a-52fb-b3bf-4a96cdb5e2cb)
Chapter 4 (#ulink_1220e908-ab95-5ebf-a12b-b2663ed94c87)
Chapter 5 (#ulink_019e68f2-3fc0-5043-b329-74b5967fa512)
Chapter 6 (#ulink_12a63c12-c167-53db-9356-0ed037af72ef)
Chapter 7 (#ulink_8b089f95-8a78-5bf5-98fa-994a91cfed45)
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
