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Author | Ray Bradbury |
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Cover artist | Charles Addams |
Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy |
Publisher | William Morrow and Company |
Publication date | 2001 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 205 pp |
ISBN | 0-380-97382-0 |
OCLC | 45505966 |
813/.54 21 | |
LC Class | PS3503.R167 F76 2001 |
From the Dust Returned: A Family Remembrance is a fix-up fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury published in 2001. The novel is largely created from a series of short stories Bradbury wrote decades earlier, centering on a family of Illinois-based monsters and ghosts named the Elliotts. Three new short stories are included, as well as several interstitial chapters to help connect the stories.
The novel features a cover illustration by Charles Addams, originally created to accompany the publication of the first Elliott story, "Homecoming", in Mademoiselle in 1946. The Elliotts bear a resemblance to Addams' own Addams Family characters. Bradbury and Addams were friends. Bradbury once discussed collaborating with Addams on an Elliott Family history, a concept which never came to fruition. [1] In a 2001 interview, Bradbury states that Addams "went his way and created the Addams Family and I went my own way and created my family in this book." [2]
The six previously published stories originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post , Mademoiselle and Weird Tales . Two of the stories, "Homecoming" and "Uncle Einar", were also collected in Dark Carnival and The October Country , whicle . [3]
"The Wandering Witch" was originally published as "The April Witch". [4] "West of October" had originally appeared in Bradbury's collection The Toynbee Convector . The stories "Make Haste to Live", "Return to the Dust" and "The Gift" appear for the first time here.
In 2012, MGM acquired the rights to create a film adaptation. [5]