Ray Bradbury

A Careful Man Dies is a short story by Ray Bradbury published in November 1946 in New Detective Magazine. The story follows Robert Douglas, a meticulous writer with hemophilia, a disease that can cause death from any wound. He has organized his life with extreme care to avoid risks, but everything changes when he receives a mysterious package that hides a deadly trap. He soon realizes that someone wants to kill him in a subtle and undetectable way. His world becomes a dangerous survival game as he tries to discover who is behind the attacks.

The Small Assassin, a short story by Ray Bradbury published in 1946, is a disturbing psychological horror story that explores fear and paranoia in motherhood. Alice Leiber, after a complicated delivery, develops an irrational rejection of her baby, convinced that there is something strange about him. Her husband, David, tries to help her, while Dr. Jeffers attributes her fear to an emotional disorder. However, as unexplained events occur, the sense of threat grows, and what seems like a simple obsession becomes terrifyingly real.

All Summer in a Day is a science fiction story written by Ray Bradbury and published in 1954 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The story is set in a future in which humanity has colonized Venus, a planet where it rains incessantly and the sun only rises for one hour every seven years. In this gloomy world, a group of children eagerly await the moment they see the sunlight. Among them is Margot, a girl who clearly remembers the warmth and brightness of the sun because she lived on Earth, which makes her the object of envy and rejection by the other children.