Electrico introduced the young Bradbury to the tattooed man, the strong man, the fat lady, the dwarf, and the skeleton. “I sat below, in the front row,” Bradbury recalls, “and he reached down with a flaming sword full of electricity and he tapped me on both shoulders and then the tip of my nose and he cried, ‘Live, forever!’” Electrico,” whose act involved sitting in an electric chair and getting spectacularly shocked. I was ten years old, and for the next two years, I read Poe every day of my life.”Īfter these two years had passed, at a carnival in his hometown of Waukegan, Illinois, Bradbury met “Mr. And then I read ‘The Fall of the House of Usher,’ and Poe completely enchanted me. And then I read ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ and that increased my love for Poe. And then I read ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ and loved Poe even more. “And then I read ‘The Black Cat’ and fell in love with Poe. “I read ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ and fell in love with Poe,” Bradbury explains. When Bradbury was a boy, his aunt Neva gave him a copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Tales of Mystery and Imagination’, illustrated by Harry Clarke. The American gothic powerfully influenced Ray Bradbury’s writing, and a midwestern carnival inspired him to become a writer.
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