内容简介

　　20世纪40年代末，被人遗忘的加州威尼斯小镇，暴风雨来袭的深夜，一位穷困潦倒的推理作家坐在空荡荡的电车车厢里。伴随着电车的哀鸣，一个酩酊大醉的男人坐在了他身后，口中絮叨着一些关于死亡的话，但作家始终不敢转过头看这个人的模样。下车后，他在阴暗的运河里发现了一具尸体。接下来几天，他周围的人开始遭遇一系列神秘的意外。

　　常年卧床的金丝雀老妇人、蹩脚的理发师、精明的警探、终日大门不迈的女歌唱家、长着爱伦·坡式面孔的小个子老人、过气的好莱坞女星……

　　在这座大雾笼罩的小镇里，谁将成为死亡名单中的下一个？谁又是躲在暗处的凶手？

　　作者简介

　　雷·布拉德伯里（1920—2012）

　　二十世纪最重要的美国作家之一，殿堂级科幻大师。他被视为“将现代科幻领入主流文学领域的最重要人物”，先后赢得了世界奇幻终身成就奖、甘道夫大师奖、布莱姆·斯托克终身成就奖、星云奖、美国国家图书基金会卓越成就奖、普利策特别褒扬奖等至高荣誉，获颁美国国家艺术勋章、法兰西艺术及文学司令勋章。

　　1920年出生于美国伊利诺伊州，1943年开始专职从事写作，布拉德伯里的代表作品有长篇小说《华氏451》、短篇小说集《火星编年史》等。布拉德伯里的作品文笔优美，富有诗意与哲思，属于极少数能改变人们思考方式的作家。他一生发表超过500部作品，包括短篇小说、长篇小说、剧本、诗歌，堪称想象力的杰出典范。

　　布拉德伯里的作品涵盖了科幻、奇幻、恐怖等各种类型，因对类型文学的杰出贡献，他在主流文学界引起了巨大反响，2004年，时任美国总统小布什为布拉德伯里颁发了美国国家艺术勋章。2007年他又以小说家的身份获得了普利策特别褒扬奖和法兰西艺术及文学司令勋章。

　　2012年6月5日，91岁高龄的雷·布拉德伯里病逝于洛杉矶。时任美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马在悼词中称赞“他的叙事才华重塑了我们的文化，拓展了我们的世界”。

Content introduction

Late at night during a storm in the forgotten town of Venice, California, in the late 1940s, an impoverished mystery writer sits in an empty trolley car. As the tram wailed, a drunken man sat behind him, muttering something about death, but the writer never dared to turn his head to see what he looked like. After getting out of the car, he found a body in the gloomy canal. Over the next few days, the people around him begin to suffer a series of mysterious accidents.

The bedridden old lady with the canary, the lame hairdresser, the smart police detective, the singer who never gets close to the door, the little old man with the face of Ellen POE, the outdated Hollywood actress...

In this fog-shrouded town, who will be next on the list of dead? And who's the murderer hiding in the shadows?

About the author

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)

One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. He is considered "the most important figure in bringing modern science fiction into the mainstream of literature" and has won the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award, the Master Gandalf Award, the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award, the Nebula Award, the National Book Foundation Award for Excellence, the Pulitzer Prize for Special Commendation, and the National Medal of the Arts and the French Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Born in Illinois in 1920, Bradbury began writing full-time in 1943, including the novel Fahrenheit 451 and the short story collection The Martian Chronicles. Bradbury's work is beautifully written, poetic and philosophical, and he is one of the few writers who can change the way people think. He published more than 500 works in his lifetime, including short stories, novels, plays, poems, and was an outstanding example of imagination.

Bradbury's works cover science fiction, fantasy, horror and other genres, because of his outstanding contributions to genre literature, he caused a great response in the mainstream literary community, in 2004, the then US President George W. Bush awarded Bradbury the US National Medal of Arts. In 2007, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Special Recognition and the French Order of Arts and Letters for his work as a novelist.

On June 5, 2012, Ray Bradbury died in Los Angeles at the age of 91. In his eulogy, then-President Barack Obama praised "his storytelling genius for reshaping our culture and expanding our world."