and "Usher II" (1950), and the novel Fahrenheit 451. The Three Witches from Shakespeare's Macbeth appear at the beginning of the story. Similar characters reappear in another of Bradbury's short stories, "The Concrete Mixer," also dealing with Mars, and they provided the title of Bradbury's novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes. Despite its Martian setting the 1950 version of this Mars tale is set in the year 2167 (later adjusted to 2120, as various story timelines became better aligned). It is thus not a formal part of Bradbury's famous collection The Martian Chronicles which ends in the year 2057. References External links Science fiction short stories Short stories by Ray Bradbury 1949 short stories Short stories set on Mars Works originally published in Maclean's Cultural depictions of Edgar Allan Poe Cultural depictions of Charles Dickens Cultural depictions of William Shakespeare