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It was first published under the title "Shopping for Death". They unsuccessfully try to do so with a woman whose story ends bloodily. "Touched With Fire" Two old men make it their mission to push fulfillment on unhappy people.

However the neighbor dies and the dog inexplicably runs off. "The Emissary" A sick boy who cannot go outside has only two connections to the world, his dog and a woman who lives in the neighborhood. " The Lake" A man revisits his childhood home and recalls a friend who drowned in a lake during childhood. However his wife begins to realize that she cannot stand the jar or him. " The Jar" A poor farmer buys a jar with something floating in it for twelve dollars and it soon becomes the conversation piece of the town. "Skeleton" A man becomes convinced his skeleton is out to ruin him, and consults an unorthodox specialist.

Matisse" A thoroughly dull man becomes the new avant garde craze precisely because he is boring. "The Next in Line" A couple staying in a small Mexican town comes across a cemetery which holds a shocking policy regarding the interred whose families cannot pay. with a new cover illustration by Joseph Mugnaini, and a new introduction by Bradbury called "Homesteading the October Country".Ĭontents "The Dwarf" The proprietor of a Mirror Maze and the proprietor of a hoop circus at the same carnival observe a dwarf who uses one of the mirrors to make himself appear taller. In 1999, The October Country was published by Avon Books, Inc. The 1976 UK paperback edition includes "The Traveler", originally from the aforementioned Dark Carnival, and omits "The Next In Line", "The Lake", "The Small Assassin", "The Crowd", "Jack-In-The-Box", "The Man Upstairs" and "The Cistern". in 1956, and reissued in 1976 by Grafton, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The October Country was published in the United Kingdom by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. In this edition there was a foreword written by Bradbury himself, called "May I Die Before My Voices", in Los Angeles, California, on April 24, 1996. It was again published in 1996, by Del Rey Books, a branch of Ballantine Books the illustrations within were drawn by Mugnaini. The 1955 hardcover and 19 softcover versions featured artwork by Joseph Mugnaini that was replaced in 1971 by an entirely different Bob Pepper illustration. The collection was published in numerous editions by Ballantine Books. It reprints fifteen of the twenty-seven stories of his 1947 collection Dark Carnival, and adds four more of his stories previously published elsewhere. The October Country is a 1955 collection of nineteen macabre short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury.