I Made A List: July

There seem to be a lot of Ray Bradbury stories dealing with summer. Dandelion Wine of course (and its late sequel Farewell Summer), "The Day it Rained Forever", "The Burning Man", and many more.

Perhaps it's not surprising, then, that a lot of his short stories first saw the light of day in the month of July. Take a look:

July 1941

To Make a Long Story Much, Much Shorter

July 1942

Eat, Drink and be Wary

July 1943

The Scythe

July 1944

Killer, Come Back to Me
The Long Night
There Was an Old Woman

July 1945

Corpse Carnival
The Dead Man
Dead Men Rise Up Never

July 1946

Chrysalis
The Night

July 1948

The Undead Die

July 1949

The Changeling
The Lonely Ones

July 1950

The City (under the title "Purpose")
The Illustrated Man

July 1954

The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone

July 1955

The Trolley

July 1957

The Day it Rained Forever

July 1964

The Cold Wind and the Warm

July 1966

The Dragon Danced at Midnight (under the title "The Year the Glop Monster Won the Golden Lion at Cannes")

July 1975

The Burning Man

July 1984

By the Numbers!

July 1988

The Thing at the Top of the Stairs

July 1995

Grand Theft


If you want to track any of these stories down, use my Short Story Finder to locate them in Bradbury's many books.