posted 07-26-2004 01:30 PM               

Thanks for the information on "A Wild Night in Galway"

It appears that "Hopscotch" is included in the book Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales" - can someone check the publishing info and see if this is listed in there as being originally published as "A Summer Day" in Redbook, August 1978??

By the way... your Bradbury story page is outstanding! The site looks awesome and the foreign language edition scans are really cool to see. I am thankful for all the work you have put into this and extra thankful that you are sharing it!

posted 07-26-2004 01:40 PM               

Yes! 3A.M. - indeed!

OK, "The Execution" - published in Xenophile #36 (November, 1977). From an earlier post on this list:

"The Beautiful Shave" is a complete version of " The Execution" (a story fragment) which appeared in Xenophile #36 [November] 1977."

Can someone please check Bradbury Stories: 100 of HIs Most Celebrated Tales" and see if "The Beautiful Shave" was originally published as "The Execution"??

I suppose I need to actually BUY Bradbury Stories...

Thank you for the information on Hopscotch! I have updated my list!!

posted 07-26-2004 03:14 PM               

Bradbury Stories doesn't verify that Hopscotch was "A Summer Day"; it merely refers to Quicker Than The Eye. dandelion says she has seen both "A Summer Day" and Hopscotch, so perhaps she can verify the publication details of "Summer Day".

Nor does Bradbury Stories verify the Xenophile information for A Beautiful Shave; it merely references Gallery, March 1979. If you look carefully, you will see that celsius233 claimed "Shave" and "Execution" to be the same story, but dandelion challenged the comparison (which celsius233 seems to have accepted).

Anal retentiveness? Here? No, we're just perfectionists, surely!

As for cover scans for my site, yes please! I'm still missing a scan for The Autumn People, and I could do with additional scans for any of the books that don't yet fill the screen from left to right. I would also welcome scans of magazine covers containing RB stories, scans of interior artwork etc.

- Phil

posted 07-27-2004 12:25 AM               

Jon R. Eller, "The Stories of Ray Bradbury: An Annotated Finding List (1938-1991)" Bulletin of Bibliography Vol. 49, No 1, 1992.(pp. 27-51). Available also as an offprint.

Eller has developed his bibilography of Bradbury's fiction for Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction (Kent State University Press, 2004), pp. 439-514. This extensive bibliography (which also details information about where the stories have been collected) includes everything Dandelion has mentioned above, and more. Furthermore, it was checked by Donn Albright (whose biblio has not yet appeared ) and by William F.Nolan (whose own biblio is out of date/print). It does not however include all the stories listed in The Cat''s Pajamas (except in the list of Unpublished Fiction), but those have been noted in another thread on this board. So if you put the two together, you should have a fairly 'complete' list.
For now!

P.S.

The length of this bibliography and copyright restrictions forbid my posting any of it here, unfortunately. Sorry.

posted 07-27-2004 04:13 AM               

I have a resolution to the "Beautiful Shave"/"Execution" discussion, courtesy of Jon Eller, co-author or A Life of Fiction.

"The Execution" first appeared in Xenophile #36, Nov 1977 as a story fragment.

It was expanded and reprinted in Gallery, March 1979 and The Best of Gallery, Winter-Spring 1980, as "The Beautiful Shave".

The revised version was reprinted in Telegraph Sunday Magazine (U.K.) May 27, 1979, as "The Shave", and collected in Bradbury Stories as "The Beautiful Shave."

Jon tells me he his bibliographical research involved work in Ray's basement, and with Donn Albright.

- Phil

P.S. dandelion, I tried to forward Jon Eller's message to your email address, but it bounced. If you would like a copy, please email me.

posted 08-18-2004 10:18 AM               

Jon Eller's chronological bibliography is excellent. I have systematically cross-checked my short story finder
and corrected quite a few errors I didn't know I had (I have also found one or two inconsistencies in Jon's list, which I have notified him about). Having gone through this laborious exercise, I can now confidently claim that my website contains the most detailed and accurate Bradbury short story bibliography on the web. Phew! It only took me three solid days!

Phil

posted 08-21-2004 03:18 PM               

I've just got a proper domain name for my website (a bit easier to remember than the old address - although the old address will continue to work). Set your browser to:
www.bradburymedia.co.uk

posted 08-21-2004 08:03 PM               

This is a wonderul source!
A lot of work went into all of this. I know many of us will use your website to look up things we aren't sure of, or to teach ourselves about things we never knew. And certainly the website will enlighten new readers to the rich minings of Bradbury's talent, listed for all of us to find and enjoy.

posted 08-24-2004 04:13 AM               

My original intention was that I would review all the stories myself, but I'm never going to find the time. I started doing it for one book I was reading (Memory of Murder, I think) but it was a slow process. I do most of my reading on the bus to work, and it's very difficult to make notes on a moving bus! (And my memory is rubbish, so I forget to write the reviews up afterwards.)

Phil
www.bradburymedia.co.uk

posted 09-30-2004 03:31 PM               

Ray Bradbury was the first 'serious' writer I recall being aware of. I became a fan at the age of 10. Three years ago (at the age of 34), I started rereading some of the short stories, and thought 'Hey, I was right to love this stuff when I was 10'. I have subsequently started collecting all the books I missed, and attempting to find all the uncollected short stories, so this thread has been of great interest to me.

I just checked Dandelion's list of uncollected stories against my own notes. At least one major title is missing from Dandelion's list: THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, published in the July 1950 issue of ESQUIRE. The prologue to Bradbury's short story collection THE ILLUSTRATED MAN deals with the same character, but is otherwise a totally different work.

I have a photocopy of this, as well as several other titles Dandelion needs, including LORELEI OF THE RED MIST, THE CHANGELING, THE HOUR OF GHOSTS and UNDERSEA GUARDIANS.

Also, according to my notes, the following stories have appeared in Bradbury collections:

LAZARUS COME FORTH (1944) appeared in LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT under the title GBS - MARK V.

TOMORROW AND TOMORROW (1947) appeared in THE DAY IT RAINED FOREVER (UK edition) under the title THE SUNSET HARP.

A LITTLE JOURNEY (1951) appeared in LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT under the title THE BURNING MAN.

Best wishes,
Brad Stevens.

posted 09-30-2004 03:54 PM               

I don't believe A Little Journey is the same story as The Burning Man (which was first published in 1975).

Neither do I believe that Lazarus Come Forth is the same as GBS Mark V.

And neither is Tomorrow And Tomorrow the same as The Sunset Harp.

Take a look at the Short Story finder on my website www.bradburymedia.co.uk - click on BOOKS and then on SHORT STORY FINDER. You will see a detailed cross-reference of all known published Bradbury short stories. I don't claim it to be perfect, but it has been thoroughly cross-checked against one of the most detailed recent bibliographies.

posted 06-03-2005 05:47 PM               

You'd have great chance of success in your quest by getting yourself to the NEW Bradbury board. THIS is the OLD one....the NEW one has nearly everyone from this old site, as well as a bunch of new members....