A Graveyard for Lunatics

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

Cover (#u9934a037-6701-590e-b1ff-e6f47644ea35)

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)