The April Witch
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Reception
BoucherAnthony Boucher
Anthony Boucher was an American science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories. He was particularly influential as an editor. Between 1942 and 1947 he acted as reviewer of mostly mystery fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle...
and McComas
J. Francis McComas
Jesse Francis McComas was an American science fiction editor. McComas wrote several stories on his own in the 1950s using both his own name and the pseudonym Webb Marlowe....
described the story as one of Bradbury's "reassuringly lovely flights of fancy."
Publication history
The story was included in several of Bradbury's short story collections:- The Golden Apples of the SunThe Golden Apples of the SunThe Golden Apples of the Sun is an anthology of 22 short stories by Ray Bradbury; it was first published in 1953.The book's namesake is one of the short stories in the collection. Bradbury drew the title for the story from the last line of the final stanza to W. B...
, 1953 - Twice 22Twice 22Twice 22 is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. The book, published in 1966, is an omnibus edition of The Golden Apples of the Sun and A Medicine for Melancholy.-Contents:* The Golden Apples of the Sun** "The Fog Horn"...
, 1966 - The Stories of Ray BradburyThe Stories of Ray BradburyThe Stories of Ray Bradbury is, as the title suggests, an anthology containing 100 short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury and was first published by Knopf in 1980. The hundred stories, written from 1943 to 1980, were selected by the author himself...
, 1980
This story was later assimilated into Bradbury's 2003 fix-up
Fix-up
A fix-up is a novel created from short stories that may or may not have been initially related or previously published. The stories may be edited for consistency, and sometimes new connecting material—such as a frame story—is written for the new novel. The term was coined by the science fiction...
novel From the Dust Returned
From the Dust Returned
From the Dust Returned is a fix-up fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury. The novel is largely comprised from a series of short stories which Bradbury had written decades earlier, centering around a family of Illinois-based ghosts named the Elliotts...
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