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* ParodyDisplacement: Many people think the phrase "Something Wicked This Way Comes" originated with Bradbury, not realising that the line is acknowledged in-universe in both the book and the movie as a line from one of the Weird Sisters' songs in Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Macbeth''. Even more odd, some experts now believe the Witches' songs were not written by Shakespeare but by his pupil Creator/ThomasMiddleton.
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* {{Dedication}}: The book is dedicated to the memory of Creator/GeneKelly.
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* {{Dedication}}: The book is dedicated to Bradbury's friend Creator/GeneKelly. Bradbury wrote the memory of Creator/GeneKelly.story as a screenplay for Kelly to pitch in 1952, but they couldn't get funding, so Bradbury eventually novelized the script.
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A novel by Creator/RayBradbury, somewhat of an expansion of "The Black Ferris", one of his earlier short stories. The story is more fantasy/horror than science fiction but still has his SignatureStyle all over it. Disney produced a film adaptation from a script written by Bradbury himself starring Creator/JasonRobards as Charles Halloway and Creator/JonathanPryce as Mr. Dark.
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A novel by Creator/RayBradbury, somewhat of an expansion of "The Black Ferris", one of his earlier short stories. The story is more fantasy/horror than science fiction but still has his SignatureStyle all over it. Disney produced a film adaptation from a script written by Bradbury himself starring Creator/JasonRobards as Charles Halloway and Creator/JonathanPryce as Mr. Dark.
Dark, although some sources claim that the finished film actually uses very little of Bradbury's screenplay.
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* AscendedExtra: Tom Fury, the Lightning Rod Salesman.
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* AscendedExtra: Tom Fury, the Lightning Rod Salesman.Salesman, gets a longer subplot than in the book.
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* FamilialFoe: Reading old diaries, Jim and his father learn that Jim's grandfather also battled their EmotionEater nemesis the last time he came through town, decades earlier.
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*DepravedDwarf: Mr. Dark's entourage includes several dwarves who function both as sideshow freaks and as his evil minions.
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*FateWorseThanDeath: Those who fall victim to Mr. Dark aren't killed outright. Instead, they're transformed into side-show freaks permanently enslaved tohis carnival.
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** Tom Fury is spared his FateWorseThanDeath in the novel, where he's turned into a freakish circus dwarf. In the film, he's tortured by Mr. Dark but eventually escapes and [[spoilers: kills the Dust Witch that helped enslave him]].
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** Tom Fury is spared his FateWorseThanDeath in the novel, where he's turned into a freakish circus dwarf. In the film, he's tortured by Mr. Dark but eventually escapes and [[spoilers: [[spoiler: kills the Dust Witch that helped enslave him]].
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* AdaptationDeviation: A few plot points have been changed, but since the screenplay was written by Bradbury himself, the changes were pragmatic (For example, the idea of putting a smile on a bullet would have been too goofy for a film)
* AdaptationDeviation: A few plot points have been changed, but since the screenplay was written by Bradbury himself, the changes were pragmatic (For example, the idea of putting a smile on a bullet would have been too goofy for a film, and a very different but appropriate death for [[spoiler:Mr. Dark]])
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Mr. Cooger]]
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Mr. Cooger]]SparedByTheAdaptation:
**[[spoiler:Mr. Cooger]]. In the novel he's aged 100 years on the carousel and eventually crumbles to dust, which is the fate met by [[spoiler: Mr. Dark]] in the film.
**Tom Fury is spared his FateWorseThanDeath in the novel, where he's turned into a freakish circus dwarf. In the film, he's tortured by Mr. Dark but eventually escapes and [[spoilers: kills the Dust Witch that helped enslave him]].
**[[spoiler:Mr. Cooger]]. In the novel he's aged 100 years on the carousel and eventually crumbles to dust, which is the fate met by [[spoiler: Mr. Dark]] in the film.
**Tom Fury is spared his FateWorseThanDeath in the novel, where he's turned into a freakish circus dwarf. In the film, he's tortured by Mr. Dark but eventually escapes and [[spoilers: kills the Dust Witch that helped enslave him]].
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---> ''‘For some, autumn comes early, stays late through life where October follows September and November touches October and then instead of December and Christ's birth, there is no Bethlehem Star, no rejoicing, but September comes again and old October and so on down the years, with no winter, spring, or revivifying summer. For these beings, fall is the ever normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars.''
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* TheFairFolk: The exact nature of the 'autumn people' is never confirmed. There are some demonic implications at times but Mr. Halloway speculates that long ago they were humans who learned to survive by feeding off the despair and misery of others instead of food. This seems born out in the way they trick and kidnap the humans of Green Town and add them to their ranks. Their connection to the seasons, abducting humans, unearthly nature, and fondness of illusion and deception all strongly imply the Fair Folk at work.
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** ShoutOutToShakespeare: The title comes from a line spoken by the Witches in ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}''.
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* TitleDrop: "By the pricking of my thumbs / Something wicked this way comes"
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* Adul.tsAreUseless: Thoroughly averted; Mr. Halloway, once he's made aware of what's going on, rescues the boys and [[spoiler:singlehandedly brings down the carnival]].
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*AttackOfTheTownFestival: Mr. Dark uses his town carnival both as a cover and as a means for drawing in his victims.
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* PoliceAreUseless
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* AdultsAreUseless: Thoroughly averted; Mr. Halloway, once he's made aware of what's going on, rescues the boys and [[spoiler:singlehandedly brings down the carnival]].
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* AdaptationDeviation: A few plot points have been changed, but since the screenplay was written by Bradbury himself, the changes were pragmatic. pragmatic (For example, the idea of putting a smile on a bullet would have been too goofy for a film.)
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*AdultsAreUseless: Adul.tsAreUseless: Thoroughly averted; Mr. Halloway, once he's made aware of what's going on, rescues the boys and [[spoiler:singlehandedly brings down the carnival]].
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* AwesomeMcCoolName: Jim Moriarty Nightshade, as {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Mr. Dark, who suggests a WeCanRuleTogether of "Dark and Nightshade, or Nightshade and Dark."
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* AwesomeMcCoolName: Jim Moriarty Nightshade, as {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Mr. Dark, who suggests a WeCanRuleTogether of "Dark and Nightshade, or Nightshade and Dark."Dark".
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* NothingIsScarier: Mr. Dark taunts Will by claiming Will's mother rode back and forth on the carousel "until she was quite, quite mad." It's a lie, but he certainly sells it with the line, "You should have heard the one single sound she made."
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* NothingIsScarier: Mr. Dark taunts Will by claiming Will's mother rode back and forth on the carousel "until she was quite, quite mad." mad". It's a lie, but he certainly sells it with the line, "You should have heard the one single sound she made."made".
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Dandelion Wine'', long before it received an official sequel in the form of ''Farewell Summer.'' The three books collectively are unofficially known as the "Green Town Trilogy".
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A novel by Creator/RayBradbury, somewhat of an expansion of "The Black Ferris", one of his earlier short stories. The story is more fantasy/horror than science fiction but still has his SignatureStyle all over it. Disney produced a film adaptation from a script written by Bradbury himself starring Creator/JasonRobards as Charles Holloway Halloway and Creator/JonathanPryce as Mr. Dark.
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-->--'''Mr. Hathaway'''
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-->--'''Mr. Hathaway'''
Halloway'''
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->"''By the pricking prickling of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.''"
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In the film, Tom Fury, the lightning rod salesman, escapes from Mr. Dark and kills the Dust Witch with a lightning rod. In the novel, he's turned into a dwarf enslaved to Mr. Dark and the Carnival and remains a passive victim for the rest of the story.
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