Popular American science fiction writer Ray Douglas Bradbury (born .) The 1920s. ) is familiar to the domestic reader from the novels “Martian Chronicles”, “451 Fahrenheit”, “Dandelion Wine”, as well as from the stories “And Thunder Broke”, “Rubber Dragon” and many others. Based on his works, television and radio productions were created, a feature film was made. This collection includes the previously unpublished in our country novel “And the spirits of evil appeared to the army”, which tells about the struggle of two teenagers with the People of Autumn, the mysterious and terrible owners and slaves of the “dark carnival” and stories that are mostly unknown to the general reader.