From the Dust Returned

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From the Dust Returned
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Author Ray Bradbury
Cover artist Charles Addams
LanguageEnglish
Genre Fantasy novel
Publisher William Morrow and Company
Publication date
2001
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages205 pp
ISBN 0-380-97382-0
OCLC 45505966
813/.54 21
LC Class PS3503.R167 F76 2001

From the Dust Returned 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. The six previously published stories originally appeared in the magazines The Saturday Evening Post , Mademoiselle and Weird Tales as well as Bradbury's earlier collections Dark Carnival and The Toynbee Convector . Two of the stories, "Homecoming" and "Uncle Einar", were also anthologized in The October Country . [1] Three new short stories are included, as well as several chapters to help connect the stories.

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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 strong resemblance to Addams' own Addams Family characters. Bradbury and Addams were friends. Bradbury once discussed collaborating with Addams on an Elliott Family history, although that project never came to fruition. [2] 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." [3]

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Film

In 2012, MGM acquired the rights to create a film adaptation of From the Dust Returned. [5]

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