From the Dust Returned: A Family Remembrance

Author	Ray Bradbury
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
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 21
LC Class	PS3503.R167 F76 2001

From the Dust Returned: A Family Remembrance is afix-upfantasy novel byRay 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-basedmonsters andghosts 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 byCharles Addams, originally created to accompany the publication of the first Elliott story,"Homecoming", inMademoiselle in 1946. The Elliotts bear a resemblance to Addams' ownAddams 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 Beautiful One Is Here"
• "The Town and the Place"
• "Anuba Arrives"
• "The High Attic"
• "The Sleeper and Her Dreams"
• "The Wandering Witch"
• "Whence Timothy?"
• "The House, the Spider, and the Child"
• "Mouse, Far-Traveling"
• "Homecoming"
• "West of October"
• "Many Returns"
• "On the Orient North"
• "Nostrum Paracelsius Crook"
• "The October People"
• "Uncle Einar"
• "The Whisperers"
• "The Theban Voice"
• "Make Haste to Live" (new)
• "The Chimney Sweeps"
• "The Traveler"
• "Return to the Dust" (new)
• "The One Who Remembers"
• "The Gift" (new)

The six previously published stories originally appeared inThe Saturday Evening Post,Mademoiselle andWeird Tales. Two of the stories, "Homecoming" and "Uncle Einar", were also collected inDark Carnival andThe October Country. .^[3]

"The Wandering Witch" was originally published as "The April Witch".^[4] "West of October" had originally appeared in Bradbury's collectionThe 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]

• Brown, Charles N.; William G. Contento."The Locus Index to Science Fiction (2001)". RetrievedDecember 13, 2007.

• From the Dust Returned title listing at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database

• Novels by Ray Bradbury
• English-language novels
• 2001 American novels
• American fantasy novels
• The Addams Family

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