- Ray Bradbury Late that night, going home from the show with his mother and father and his brother Tom, Douglas saw the tennis shoes in the bright store window. He glanced quickly away, but his ankles were seized, his feet suspended, then rushed. The earth spun; the shop awnings slammed their canvas wings overhead with the thrust of his body.
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Title Record # 28559Author:Ray Bradbury
Date: 1948-09-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length:short story
Language: English
Synopsis: A sick boy begins to lose touch with his body as he realizes a new stage in evolution is arriving.
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Displaying all variants and translations • Do not display translations • Do not display variants or translations| Title | Date | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| Weird Tales, September 1948 | 1948-09-00 | ed. D. McIlwraith | Weird Tales | $0.20 | 100 | mag | Lee Brown Coye | ||
| A Medicine for Melancholy | 1959-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Doubleday | $3.75 | 240 | coll | Joseph Mugniani | ||
| The Day It Rained Forever | 1959-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Hart-Davis | 13/6 | 254 | coll | Joe Mugnaini | ||
| A Medicine for Melancholy | 1960-04-00 | Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | A2069 | $0.35 | 183 | coll | ||
| The Day It Rained Forever | 1960-05-00 | Ray Bradbury | The Science Fiction Book Club (UK) | 44 | 5/6 | 254 | coll | C. W. Bacon | |
| Un remède à la mélancolie | 1961-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Denoël (Présence du Futur #49) | 256 | coll | ||||
| The Day It Rained Forever | 1963-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Penguin Books | 1878 | 3/6 | 233 | coll | Max Ernst | |
| A Medicine for Melancholy | 1963-09-00 | Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | F2637 | $0.50 | 183 | coll | ||
| A Medicine for Melancholy | 1963-09-00 | Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | F2637 | $0.50 | 183 | coll | ||
| La fine del principio | 1963-09-30 | Ray Bradbury | Casa Editrice La Tribuna | 1,200 Lit | 350 | coll | Duccio Alessandri | ||
| La fine del principio | 1963-09-30 | Ray Bradbury | Casa Editrice La Tribuna (Science Fiction Book Club (Italy) #2) | 1,200 Lit | 352 | coll | Duccio Alessandri | ||
| The Day It Rained Forever | 1964-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Penguin Books | 1878 | 3/6 | 232+ [1] | coll | Max Ernst | |
| Medicina contra la melancolia | 1965-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Vértice (Galaxia #30) | 213 | coll | Scholler | |||
| The Vintage Bradbury | 1965-09-00 | Ray Bradbury | Vintage Books | v+ 329 | coll | ||||
| The Vintage Bradbury | 1965-09-00 | Ray Bradbury | Vintage Books | V-294 | $1.45 | x+ 329 | coll | ||
| The Vintage Bradbury | 1966-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Vintage Books | V-294 | $1.45 | v+ 329 | coll | ||
| The Day It Rained Forever | 1966-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Penguin Books | 1878 | 4/6 | 233 | coll | Romek Marber | |
| Twice Twenty-two | 1966-01-00 | Ray Bradbury | Doubleday | $4.95 | 406 | omni | Joseph Mugnaini | ||
| Twice Twenty-two | 1966-03-00 | Ray Bradbury | Doubleday / SFBC | 2696 | $1.90 | 406 | omni | Joseph Mugnaini | |
| Beyond the Curtain of Dark | 1966-10-00 | ed. Peter Haining | Four Square Books | 1634 | 5/- | 320 | anth | Josh Kirby | |
| A Medicine for Melancholy | 1967-05-00 | Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | H3398 | $0.60 | 183 | coll | ||
| A Medicine for Melancholy | 1967-07-00 | Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | S5268 | $0.75 | 183 | coll | ||
| Tales of the Uncanny | 1968-00-00 | ed. Kurt Singer | W. H. Allen | 0-491-00002-2 | 30/- | 286 | anth | ||
| Bloch and Bradbury | 1969-00-00 | ed. Kurt Singer | Tower Books | 43-246 | $0.60 | 155 | anth | ||
| The Day It Rained Forever | 1969-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Penguin Books | 1878 | £0.25 | 233 | coll | Franco Grignani | |
| Bloch and Bradbury | 1969-00-00 | ed. Kurt Singer | Tower Books | 43-246 | C$0.60 | 155 | anth | ||
| Medizin für Melancholie | 1969-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Marion von Schröder (Science Fiction & Fantastica) | DM 10.00 | 210 | coll | Klaus Kammerichs, Heinz Edelmann | ||
| The Plague of the Living Dead & More Tales of the Uncanny | 1970-00-00 | ed. Kurt Singer | Sphere Books (Sphere Occult) | 0-7221-7854-9 | 5/- | 160 | anth | ||
| La fine del principio | 1970-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Casa Editrice La Tribuna (Science Fiction Book Club (Italy) #2) | 352 | coll | Duccio Alessandri | |||
| Fever Dream: and other Fantasies | 1970-09-00 | ed. Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Singer | Sphere (Sphere Occult) | 17140 | £0.25 | 157 | anth | ||
| A Medicine for Melancholy | 1971-01-00 | Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | $0.75 | 183 | coll | |||
| Medizin für Melancholie | 1971-11-00 | Ray Bradbury | Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3267) | 3267 | DM 2.80 | 144 | coll | ||
| Whispers from Beyond | 1972-00-00 | ed. uncredited | Peacock Press | $1.00 | 80 | anth | |||
| Medizin für Melancholie | 1972-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3267) | 3267 | DM 2.80 | 144 | coll | ||
| Der Besucher aus dem Dunkel | 1972-00-00 | ed. Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Singer | Heyne (Heyne Allgemeine Reihe #935) | 935 | DM 2.80 | 125 | anth | Lagarde | |
| Beyond the Curtain of Dark | 1972-11-00 | ed. Peter Haining | Pinnacle Books | P138Z | $1.25 | 380 | anth | ||
| Beyond the Curtain of Dark | 1972-11-00 | ed. Peter Haining | New English Library | 0-450-01297-2 | £0.40 | 320 | anth | Bruce Pennington | |
| Medizin für Melancholie | 1974-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3267) | 3267 | DM 2.80 | 143 | coll | ||
| The Day It Rained Forever | 1974-11-00 | Ray Bradbury | Penguin Books | 0-14-001878-6 | £0.40 | 233 | coll | David Pelham | |
| A Sombra do Campanário | 1975-00-00 | ed. Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury | Galeria Panorama (Série Antecipação #68) | PTE 30.00 | 155 | anth | O'Brien | ||
| Un remède à la mélancolie | 1975-01-30 | Ray Bradbury | Denoël (Présence du Futur #49) | 254 | coll | ||||
| Ray Bradbury | 1975-07-00 | Ray Bradbury | Harrap | 0-245-52746-X | £1.30 | 188 | coll | ||
| The Ghost's Companion | 1975-10-00 | ed. Peter Haining | Gollancz | 0-575-02039-3 | £2.80 | 191 | anth | ||
| The Ghost's Companion | 1976-00-00 | ed. Peter Haining | Taplinger | 0-8008-3228-0 | 191 | anth | Rus Anderson | ||
| A Medicine for Melancholy | 1977-06-00 | Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | 0-553-10390-3 | $1.75 | 183 | coll | ||
| The Ghost's Companion | 1978-00-00 | ed. Peter Haining | Puffin | 0-14-031049-5 | £0.60 | 222 | anth | Harry Hants | |
| The Day It Rained Forever | 1978-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Penguin Books | 0-14-001878-6 | £0.85 | 233 | coll | David Pelham | |
| To Sing Strange Songs | 1979-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | A. Wheaton & Co. | 0-08-022910-7 | £ | 102 | coll | Kathy Wyatt | |
| Un remède à la mélancolie | 1979-07-05 | Ray Bradbury | Denoël (Présence du Futur #49) | 254 | coll | ||||
| The Day It Rained Forever | 1980-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Penguin Books | 0-14-001878-6 | £0.95 | 233 | coll | Adrian Chesterman | |
| Weird Worlds, #5 | 1980-00-00 | ed. Bob Stine, Jane Stine | Scholastic | 0-590-30038-5 | 40 | mag | Animals, Animals, Michael Reed (artist), Barbara Reed | ||
| Medizin für Melancholie | 1980-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3267) | 3-453-30144-7 | DM 4.80 | 191 | coll | Karel Thole | |
| The Stories of Ray Bradbury | 1980-10-31 | Ray Bradbury | Alfred A. Knopf | 0-394-51335-5 | $17.95 | xx+ 884 | coll | R. D. Scudellari | |
| The Stories of Ray Bradbury | 1980-12-00 | Ray Bradbury | Alfred A. Knopf | 0-394-51335-5 | $17.95 | xx+ 884 | coll | R. D. Scudellari | |
| The Stories of Ray Bradbury | 1981-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Granada | 0-246-11540-8 | £12.50 | xx+ 884 | coll | ||
| The Day It Rained Forever | 1981-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Penguin Books | 0-14-001878-6 | £1.75 | 233 | coll | Adrian Chesterman | |
| Medizin für Melancholie | 1981-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Diogenes (detebe #20865) | 3-257-20865-0 | DM 7.80 | 222 | coll | Tomi Ungerer | |
| The Stories of Ray Bradbury | 1981-02-00 | Ray Bradbury | Alfred A. Knopf | 0-394-51335-5 | $17.95 | xx+ 884 | coll | R. D. Scudellari | |
| A Medicine for Melancholy | 1981-09-00 | Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | 0-553-20426-2 | $2.25 | 183 | coll | Ian Miller | |
| Tales from Beyond the Grave | 1982-00-00 | ed. uncredited | Octopus Books | 0-7064-1798-4 | £2.99 | 377 | anth | Mick Brownfield | |
| The Stories of Ray Bradbury Volume 2 | 1983-01-27 | Ray Bradbury | Granada | 0-586-05749-8 | £3.95 | 683 | coll | ||
| The Plague of the Living Dead & More Tales of the Uncanny | 1984-00-00 | ed. Kurt Singer | Ace/Stoneshire | £1.95 | 158 | anth | |||
| 34 Racconti | 1984-11-07 | Ray Bradbury | Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Oscar #1789) | 25324-5 | 8,000 Lit | 375 | coll | Karel Thole | |
| The Stories of Ray Bradbury Volume 2 | 1985-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Granada | 0-586-05749-8 | £3.95 | 683 | coll | ||
| Horrifying and Hideous Hauntings | 1986-05-00 | ed. Franklin Hoke, Helen Hoke | Lodestar Books / Dutton | 0-525-67179-X | $14.95 | xi+ 116 | anth | David Christiana | |
| The Day It Rained Forever | 1987-10-00 | Ray Bradbury | Penguin Books (Penguin Classic Science Fiction) | 0-14-010120-9 | £3.95 | 233 | coll | Keith Scaife | |
| Fever Dream | 1987-11-00 | Ray Bradbury | St. Martin's Press | 0-312-57285-9 | $6.95 | 31+ [1] | chap | Darrel Anderson | |
| To Sing Strange Songs | 1988-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | A. Wheaton & Co. | 0-08-022910-7 | 102 | coll | Nick Potter | ||
| The Day It Rained Forever | 1988-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Penguin Books (Penguin Classic Science Fiction) | 0-14-010120-9 | £3.99 | 233 | coll | Keith Scaife | |
| Tales from Beyond the Grave | 1989-00-00 | ed. uncredited | Gallery Books / W. H. Smith | 0-8317-8628-0 | $6.98 | 377 | anth | Mick Brownfield | |
| Classic Stories 2 | 1990-05-00 | Ray Bradbury | Bantam Spectra (The Grand Master Editions) | 0-553-28638-2 | $3.95 | 341 | coll | Don Maitz | |
| 1990-05-01 | ed. Ioan Albescu | Lei 5 | 32 | mag | Emil Bogos | ||||
| The Vintage Bradbury | 1990-07-00 | Ray Bradbury | Vintage Books | 0-679-72946-1 | $8.95 | 329 | coll | ||
| The Stories of Ray Bradbury | 1990-10-00 | Ray Bradbury | Alfred A. Knopf | 0-394-51335-5 | $29.95 | 912 | coll | R. D. Scudellari | |
| The Day It Rained Forever | 1991-11-00 | Ray Bradbury | Roc UK | 0-14-015246-6 | £4.50 | 233 | coll | Fred Gambino | |
| Fantastic Tales of Ray Bradbury | 1992-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Listening Library | 0-8072-2900-8 | coll | Toni Dove | |||
| Varhaiset varjot | 1992-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö (FAN) | 951-0-18374-1 | 226 | coll | Jukka Murtosaari | ||
| 1992-00-00 | ed. | () | 5-7628-0010-5 | 480 | anth | ||||
| A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories | 1998-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Avon Books | 0-380-73086-3 | $12.95 | 307 | coll | Tim O'Brien | |
| Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters | 1999-10-00 | ed. Bruce Coville | Avon Camelot | 0-380-80255-4 | $4.99 | 180 | anth | ||
| A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories | 2001-00-00 | Ray Bradbury | Perennial / HarperCollins | 0-380-73086-3 | $13.95 | 307 | coll | Tim O'Brien | |
| Il grande mondo laggiù. 34 Racconti | 2002-01-00 | Ray Bradbury | Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (Piccola Biblioteca Oscar #273) | 88-04-49997-4 | €7.80 | 434 | coll | ||
| Don't Turn Out the Light | 2005-03-00 | ed. Stephen Jones | PS Publishing | 1-904619-27-4 | £50.00 | 279 | anth | Les Edwards | |
| Don't Turn Out the Light | 2005-03-00 | ed. Stephen Jones | PS Publishing | 1-904619-26-6 | £25.00 | 279 | anth | Les Edwards | |
| The Day It Rained Forever | 2008-11-00 | Ray Bradbury | PS Publishing | 978-1-905834-42-6 | £20.00 | 256 | coll | Tomislav Tikulin | |
| The Day It Rained Forever | 2008-11-00 | Ray Bradbury | PS Publishing | 978-1-905834-43-3 | £50.00 | 256 | coll | Tomislav Tikulin | |
| The Day It Rained Forever / A Medicine for Melancholy | 2008-11-00 | Ray Bradbury | PS Publishing | 978-1-84863-006-2 | £250.00 | viii+ 256 | omni | Tomislav Tikulin, Chris Roberts | |
| Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1 | 2008-12-00 | Ray Bradbury | HarperVoyager | 978-0-00-728047-6 | £16.99 | xx+ 956 | coll | ||
| The Stories of Ray Bradbury | 2010-04-06 | Ray Bradbury | Alfred A. Knopf (Everyman's Library #326) | 978-0-307-26905-8 | $32.00 | xliii+ 1059 | coll | ||
| Weird Tales | 2012-00-00 | ed. uncredited | Pulp Classics on DVD | anth | Hannes Bok | ||||
| Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1 | 2012-06-28 | Ray Bradbury | Harper Voyager (UK) | 978-0-00-749768-3 | £1.99 | coll | |||
| A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories | 2013-04-30 | Ray Bradbury | William Morrow / HarperCollins | 978-0-06-224210-5 | $9.99 | coll | Tim O'Brien | ||
| The Vintage Bradbury | date unknown | Ray Bradbury | Vintage Books | V-294 | $1.65 | v+ 329 | coll | ||
| A Medicine for Melancholy | date unknown | Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | N8098 | $0.95 | 183 | coll | ||
| A Medicine for Melancholy | date unknown | Ray Bradbury | Bantam Books | Q2668 | $1.25 | 183 | coll | ||
| The Vintage Bradbury | date unknown | Ray Bradbury | Vintage Books | V-294 | $2.95 | x+ 329 | coll | ||
| Classic Stories 2 | date unknown | Ray Bradbury | Bantam Spectra | 0-553-28638-2 | $4.99 | 341 | coll | Don Maitz | |
| The Vintage Bradbury | date unknown | Ray Bradbury | Vintage Books | 0-679-72946-1 | $13.00 | x+ 329 | coll | ||
| The Vintage Bradbury | date unknown | Ray Bradbury | Vintage Books | V-294 | $1.95 | v+ 329 | coll | Peter Rauch | |
| The Vintage Bradbury | date unknown | Ray Bradbury | Vintage Books | 0-394-74059-9 | $1.95 | v+ 329 | coll | ||
| The Vintage Bradbury | date unknown | Ray Bradbury | Vintage Books | 0-394-74059-9 | $2.95 | v+ 329 | coll | ||
| The Vintage Bradbury | date unknown | Ray Bradbury | Vintage Books | 0-394-74059-9 | $4.95 | xii+ 329 | coll |
Reviews
- Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1983) in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction
- Review by Don D'Ammassa (1988) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #102 March 1988
Fever Dream
Genre: Short Story
- Annotated by:
- Miksanek, Tony
Summary
Thirteen-year-old Charles has been sick with a fever for days. The family doctor makes house calls and diagnoses the problem as scarlet fever and a cold. The boy is unconvinced and questions the physician's certainty since no diagnostic tests have been done. Charles is terrified when first his hands and then his legs change. He senses that his extremities become swollen, warm, throbbing, and twitching. Although the limbs appear normal, Charles is sure that he no longer has control of them. Recalling how the wood of petrified trees transforms into stone, he now fears that his entire body has been irrevocably replaced by a propagating mass of microbes.
The doctor dismisses the boy's fright as the result of fever and imagination. He placates Charles by giving him pills. When Charles begins choking himself, his parents restrain him in bed. Fortunately, the teenager improves dramatically. His fever disappears, and he is suddenly robust. Yet there is something odd (and a bit creepy) about Charles following his recovery.
Commentary
This short story draws attention to the changes (psychological as well as physical) and anxiety associated with both puberty and disease. Adolescence and infection are offered as examples of how individuals are sometimes helpless in resisting a 'takeover' of their bodies. Loss of control is a terrifying proposition. The protagonist's quandary calls to mind the questions and concerns that adolescents may have about their bodies and their futures.
The boy's parents provide little emotional comfort to Charles even though they seem devoted to him. The physician downplays his patient's complaints and attributes the strange symptoms to fever, hallucinations, and possibly hysteria. Are the pink pills that he gives Charles an antipyretic, antibiotic, or placebo?
The actual cause of the boy's perceived body transformation remains mysterious. Maybe the family doctor is correct, and Charles is experiencing dreams and hallucinations. Perhaps the streptococcal infection has triggered or unmasked a neuropsychiatric disorder. Less likely, Charles suffers from a rare clinical disorder--alien hand syndrome--that results in a loss of control of the hand and imparts the feeling it is disconnected from the rest of the body. Might his situation simply be a vivid and especially disturbing nightmare? Or is it a preternatural event?