In one episode, Jim and Will set off on the classic childhood pastime of climbing for apples – the apple being, of course, forever associated with temptation and lost innocence.
These must, for Jim and Will, include adulthood, the battle of innocence and experience, the choosing of the hat. It’s a catch-all phrase that covers most impending-menace possibilities. What a time for them to bump into Tom Fury, an example of that ever-popular small business genre, the lightning-rod salesman. They each seem to wear one hat whilst half hankering for the other. Everything here – numbers, surnames, even October – drips with dark significance… The boys are in pre-choice flux. Given the level of supernatural angst Ray Bradbury constantly stirs up in this novel, he probably considered making both characters six-hundred-and-sixty-six but finally rejected it as too restrictive during the action scenes. Something Wicked This Way Comesis a book where ill omen is a constant companion. (Illustrations by Tim McDonagh for The Folio Society’s edition of Ray Bradbury’s ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes.’)įrom the new introduction to ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ This is a story about two boys, two best friends, both thirteen years of age.
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