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Killer, Come Back To Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury is $2 on Amazon.com and Kobo US.

Time travelers...dark carnivals...living automata...and detectives? Honoring the 100th birthday of Ray Bradbury, renowned author of Fahrenheit 451, this new, definitive collection of the master's less well-known crime fiction, published in a high-grade premium collectible edition, features classic stories and rare gems, a number of which became episodes of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS and THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER, including the tale Bradbury called "one of the best stories in any field that I have ever written."

Is it murder to destroy a robot if it looks and speaks and thinks and feels like a human being? Can a ventriloquist be incriminated by the testimony of his own dummy? Can a time traveler prevent his younger self from killing the woman they both loved? And can the survivor of a pair of Siamese twins investigate his own brother's murder? No other writer has ever rivaled the imagination and narrative gifts of Ray Bradbury, and the 20 unforgettable stories in this collection demonstrate this singular writer's extraordinary range, influence and emotional power.

Includes these stories:

• A Touch of Petulance
• The Screaming Woman
• The Trunk Lady
• “I’m Not So Dumb!”
• Killer, Come Back to Me!
• Dead Men Rise Up Never
• Where Everything Ends
• Corpse Carnival
• And So Died Riabouchinska
• Yesterday I Lived!
• The Town Where No One Got Off
• The Whole Town’s Sleeping
• At Midnight, In the Month of June
• The Smiling People
• The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
• The Small Assassin
• Marionettes, Inc.
• Punishment Without Crime
• Some Live Like Lazarus
• The Utterly Perfect Murder