Kuroi Carnival New Edition / Original Title: Dark Carnival (Haya Kawa Bunko SF 1919)

[Machine Translation] This is a selection of Bradbury's early masterpieces, including selected stories from his first collection of short stories, "The Black Carnival," which is renowned as a collection of fantastic stories, and stories that were published in pulp magazines such as Weird Tales. In "The Black Ferris Wheel," strange things happen every time the carnival leader's Ferris wheel goes around in reverse at midnight, and in "The Water Sea," a man and his fiancee return to the lake where he lost the girl he once loved.

ブラッドベリの幻の作品集として名高い処女短篇集『黒いカーニバル』から精選した作品にウィアード・テールズなどのパルプ雑誌に発表された作品を加えた初期傑作選。深夜のカーニバルで、団長が乗った観覧車がくるくる逆まわりするたびに奇怪なことが起こる「黒い観覧車」、かつての想い人である少女を失った湖を男が婚約者とともに再び訪れる「みずうみ」など、叙情SFの名手が贈る恐怖と幻想にあふれた24篇の物語。