1st Edition

Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction Ray Bradbury’s Elliott Family

Edited By Miranda Corcoran, Steve Gronert Ellerhoff Copyright 2020
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradbury’s Elliott family stories are a unique component of his extensive literary output. Written between 1946 and 1994, Bradbury eventually quilted the stories together into a novel, From the Dust Returned (2001), making it a creative project that spanned his adult life. Not only do the... Read more
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Biography

Miranda Corcoran is a lecturer in Twenty-First-Century Literature at University College Cork, Ireland. She teaches courses on nineteenth-century American literature, contemporary literature and culture, and adaptation. She also teaches popular modules on science fiction and horror. She is currently working on a monograph focusing on witchcraft and adolescence in American popular culture, and she is a regular contributor to the online magazine Diabolique.

Steve Gronert Ellerhoff holds a Ph.D. in English from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is an author of fiction and criticism, including Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut: Golden Apples of the Monkey House (Routledge, 2016) and Mole (Reaktion Books, 2019). With Philip Coleman, he co-edited George Saunders: Critical Essays (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).