Risen from the ashes

They are the Elliots: vampires, ghosts, ancient mummies and simply an otherworldly force. They live in a strange house, looking at the world from the perspective of eternity. Until they suddenly adopt an ordinary boy who becomes the chronicler of a strange family and a witness to their ups and downs, disappointments and adventures, love and death, and ultimately — the full-blooded life of the undead. Until…

Before you is one of the later books by the master of the fantasy genre Ray Bradbury, which has been maturing and waiting for its appearance for more than half a century. Its idea was born in the author’s collaboration with the man who invented the Addams family. Of course, the Elliots are not at all like the Addams, which does not prevent them from being an absolutely unique literary family that will appeal to fans of “Dandelion Wine” and “Goodbye, Summer.”