A Medicine for Melancholy "The world''s greatest living science fiction writer" - Stories of wonder, fantasy, and delight by author of The Illustrated Man. Melancholy can be purged with one flourish of the Bradbury wand. The famous mood maker has a method he plunges you so deeply into a more powerful emotion that you can''t be bothered with a puny little thing like melancholy. There''s love in a moonlit garden, shrieking terror on an eerie moor, stories of wonder, fantasy and delight.