The top of Bradbury ... regarding his novels

When talking about Ray Bradbury, generally, is to address his most famous books, k'ai named "Martian Chronicles", "Wine Of The Summer" or "Fahrenheit 451". Generally, we forget that in 1962, Bradbury signed one of the most beautiful books in the field of fantasy (here, no SF, just fantastic), "The Fair of Darkness" ("Something Wicked This Way Comes', title original).
This novel will be adapted for film by Jack Clayton, with Jason Robards in 1983, but the film in question, the same name, has not passed through the memories, which does not help the book to a spot of our days.
The story is simple: completely normal in the small American town of Green Town (Illinois) arrives, a stormy October day, a funfair rather strange - in addition, the city does not usually receive fairground.
Two children - or rather, tweens - named Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade, childhood friends and born Halloween night, will take passion for the fair, unaware of the dark magic of the place. They will find themselves in a nightmare ...
The tone of the book is quite dated (it dates from 1962), but that does not prevent the novel to be very easy to read. Both scary (but never actually terrifying) and poetic, dreamlike, "The Fair of Darkness", praised by Stephen King in his essay "Anatomy Of Horror" as one of the 10 greatest horror novels / fantasy ever written - test King from 1981, it is therefore not taking into account what was written after the test release date - is actually a forgotten jewel, an absolutely wonderful novel.
Personally, I class as the best novel of Bradbury, and his second best book after "The Martian Chronicles" (which is a collection of short stories).
I recommend it to everyone!