Bradbury 13 by Ray Bradbury; Bradbury Thirteen; Unabridged MP3 Audio Book; Narrator Various

This collection of short stories includes:

• A Sound of Thunder, in which hunting enthusiasts get the chance of a lifetime: travel back in time to bag a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
• Dark They Were and Golden Eyed: Harry is resigned to living on Mars for a while, until a nuclear war on Earth strands the settlers forever.
• In The Happiness Machine an old man builds a machine meant to make all who enter it happy. But the most important person in his life is not amused!
• In The Fox and the Forest a couple flees from war in 2155 to twentieth-century Mexico, a paradise compared to their world of disease bombs and widespread horror.
• In Here There Be Tygers prospectors from Earth travel to a world that knows their hearts' desires, but someone has dark desires and pays the ultimate price.
• In Kaleidoscope a routine space flight ends in an explosion, throwing the crew into space with only their space suits and radios. Knowing rescue is impossible, they face their inner demons.
• In The Man a space crew lands on a planet to make first contact only to discover a prior visitor has stolen their thunder.
• In Night Call, Collect the lone survivor of a rocket crew on Mars has waited his lifetime to be rescued. Then, when he is eighty, his phone rings!
• The Screaming Woman: Margaret is playing by her house when she hears a woman scream for help from the ground! Will anyone believe her?
• There Was an Old Woman: Old Aunt Tildy is shocked when a mortician comes to take her to the mortuary. How dare he put her body in a wicker basket! She's still using it!
• In The Veldt a rich couple builds a virtual playroom for their spoiled children, complete with an African savannah and man-eating lions. You can even smell the lions' last meal.
• The Wind: Where does the wind come from? Is it "born"? Intelligent? A terrified man seems to know all about it and who it's after.
• In The Ravine a strangler is murdering single women. Will the mysterious ravine be enough to save Lavinia and her friends?

“The actors, sound effects, and Bradbury’s spooky unfolding of the plot act in perfect unison.”—AudioFile

“A brilliant reading.”—SoundCommentary.com

Ray Bradbury is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. He became a full-time writer in 1943 and contributed numerous short stories to periodicals before publishing a collection of them, Dark Carnival, in 1947. His reputation as a writer of courage and vision was established with the publication of The Martian Chronicles in 1950, which describes Earthlings' first attempts to conquer and colonize Mars and the unintended consequences. Next came The Illustrated Man and Fahrenheit 451, which many consider to be Bradbury's masterpiece. Other works by Bradbury include The October Country, Dandelion Wine, A Medicine for Melancholy, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric! Quicker Than the Eye, and Driving Blind. In all, Bradbury has published more than thirty books and close to six hundred short stories. He has been awarded the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award, among others.