roshonline12 's review for:

The October Country by Ray Bradbury

3.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The October Country is a great work. The stories are exquisitely crafted. You can understand the artistic intent behind it while reading it. But it failed for me as a halloween read, a collection of autumnal tales. There was so little of horror and even less of autumn, october, and halloween in it. The stories were more on the lines of dark fantasy. This was disappointing. The ones I liked were
*The Jar
*The Emissary
*The Small Assassin
*The Scythe
*The Man Upstairs
*Homecoming
This was a case of a wrong book at the right time.