If you love Halloween...If you had a best friend as a kid but you grew apart...
If your relationship with your father was ever "love from a distance"...
If you grew up feeling that Halloween is the BEST holiday of the year ...
And if you believe in right and wrong, and that you should do your best to do right...
Then this is a book for you!
As the cover says, a long awaited major novel by Ray Bradbury. This is the cover of the paperback first printing. Pretty allegorical, huh? I'm assuming that the mirror-maze panel on the left symbolizes the evil "drinking damnation unto himself," or however the quotation runs. The panel on the right symbolizes the gamble that interaction with Cooger & Dark's carnival proves to be. The tall reflection in the middle may symbolize Jim Nightshade's desire to be "grown-up," too soon. Note the carnival's flyer blowing across the gambler's face.
The smartest thing this kid could possibly do would be to turn and run away, eh? But, I believe you can glimpse that this fellow has blond hair--his hair seems a light color. This means that he's Will Halloway, and in turn, this means that his friend Jim Nightshade has probably just run into that treacherous maze ahead of Will.
What other choice does Will have? He has to try to help his friend!
(more tomorrow, kiddies!)
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