 Bradbury tried his hand in the genre but found the results unsatisfactory.He referred to the stories as "the walking wounded" in his introduction to "A Memory of Murder".Although Bradbury would acquire the reprint rights to "The Small Assassin" and "Wake for the Living" (retitled "The Coffin") for his first collection, "Dark Carnival", Popular Publications held onto the reprint rights for the remaining stories after Bradbury became a successful author in the 1950s, and none of those thirteen appeared in collections of Bradbury stories over the years.