With the seminal dark fantasy masterpiece Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the latter career work A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities (1990) on either side, The Halloween Tree is the middle installment in a loose Halloween trilogy by the author. Though he only wrote a few novels and stories that could truly be classified as horror, those few are legendary and most revolve around what he often named his favorite holiday-Halloween. Books like The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 along with dozens of short stories had already proved him deserving of the title.
You can see the book’s original first edition cover and the 1993 animated film’s poster below.Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud promises “not Treat…Trick! Trick!” to the children in his presence after they ask their traditional question, but Ray Bradbury’s The Halloween Tree, both in its novel and animated film form, offers plenty of each.īy 1972, Bradbury was already well on his way to becoming the Grand Master of Science Fiction that the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America would officially name him in 1988. We will obviously be following this one closely as the project continues to develop. The original book is illustrated by artist Joe Mugnaini, one of Bradbury’s many collaborators over the years.īradbury himself wrote and narrated the 1993 Hanna-Barbera feature-length animated film version of The Halloween Tree, which won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program. The Halloween Tree’s branches are heavily loaded with jack-o’-lanterns, as it serves as a metaphor for the historical convergence of these various traditions. On their journey, they travel across time and space, with stops in ancient Egypt, Notre Dame Cathedral in medieval Paris, and the Day of the Dead in Mexico, among others, learning the origins of Samhain (aka Halloween) itself and exploring the role that fear has played in shaping civilization along the way. Tom and his other friends then team up with a mysterious figure named Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud to go rescue Pipkin.
The book follows the story of Tom and his seven best friends, who are trick or treating in their small town on Halloween night when they discover that a ninth friend, Pipkin, has been abducted by a demon from the Land of the Dead.
Pictures is set to adapt Ray Bradbury’s 1972 fantasy novel The Halloween Tree into a new live action feature film.ĭeadline reports that Will Dunn is writing the screenplay for the feature film adaptation.
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