Books
August, 1990
This Month, many of the best books come in pairs. Two masters of the literary game, Ray Bradbury and Elmore Leonard, have written Hollywood novels.Bradbury soars with a poetic ebullience that is dazzling in A Graveyard for Lunatics (Knopf). This nightmare carnival begins in 1954, as a young screenwriter arrives at Maximus Studios on Halloween eve to write a horror film. He ends up seeing a ghost, cavorting with a bizarre cast of characters who are connected by a 20-year-old secret and writing a...