A review by justiceofkalr
A Medicine for Melancholy by Ray Bradbury, Caitlín R. Kiernan

3.0

An overall decent collection of Bradbury's short stories, though not my favorite by far. Several of these stories I'd read before in other collections, but it took me reading the whole story to remember most of them. They weren't that memorable for me the first time and I can't say they stood out anymore this time. Despite that there were definitely some great stories in this collection. "Fever Dream" was a new one for me and joins the ranks of my favorite Bradbury shorts. "Dark They Were and Golden Eyed" was one I'd read before and a favorite of mine. The titular "A Medicine for Melancholy" was interesting and kind of humorous, but not enough to make my favorites. Still lovely though. Most of the other stories were of average strength with only a scattered few that just didn't stick for me.