The popular American science fiction writer Ray Douglas Bradbury (born in 1920) is familiar to domestic readers from the novels “The Martian Chronicles”, “Fahrenheit 451”, “Dandelion Wine”, as well as from the stories “And A Sound of Thunder” ", "Rust Dragon" and many others. Based on his works, television and radio plays have been created and a feature film has been made. This collection includes the novel “And the Spirits of Evil Came,” a novel not previously published in our country, which tells the story of the struggle of two teenagers with the People of Autumn, the mysterious and creepy masters and slaves of the “dark carnival" and stories that are mostly unknown to the general reader.