Bradbury's stories, at their best, are ironic comments on the contemporary scene projected into a nightmare future at their worst, they are hoked up O. It's the one about the paranoid parents in some future time, whose two, zombie-like children trap them in a very chic, environmental playroom.The other two stories concern a crew that has been spacewrecked on a distant planet and a pair of concerned parents facing the end of the world.Mr. Carl alternately bullies Willie and hypnotizes him, slowly forcing the young man into living out the hallucinations that are suggested by the tattoos.Of the three stories dramatized here, I can recall only the first (and the best) from the original Bradbury book. Carl (Rod Steiger) wanders into a lovely valley where he meets Willie (Robert Drivas), a young man working his way to California. 'The Illustrated Man' is set in the frame of a not-so-distant past. 'The Fox and the Forest' - A couple go to the past to escape a terrible future.CARL, a hobo who is tattooed from head to foot, is a walking anthology of horror stories that are no more than skin deep.Like the Ray Bradbury tales from which Howard B. 'No Particular Night or Morning' - A series of experiences on a space ship drive a man insane. 'The Exiles' - The last memories of burned Earth authors must battle against humans invading their new home planet - Mars.

'The Last Night of the World' - The world ends. 'The Fire Balloons' - Christian missionaries on a colonized Mars must convert strange, blue-colored Martians to their religion. 'The Rocket Man' - A retired Rocket Man visits his son and wife for numerous periods of time - or is he? 'The Long Rain' - A group of humans stuck on Venus must find the evasive and elusive Sun Domes. 'The Man' - A group of space-travelers land on an unknown planet and are meet with the strange case of a mysterious man. 'The Highway' - A group of obscure Mexican farmers meet a group of tourists who try to understand the words 'the world'. 'The Other Foot' - After leaving Earth for Mars many years before, a community of blacks must deal with a white man from a destroyed Earth. 'Kaleidoscope' - As their ship is destroyed, astronauts recount their lives and let out their most deep urges. 'The Veldt' - The Hadley parents become worried as their two children use their virtual reality-like 'nursery' for their own desires. The stories are connected through the tale of a former member of a circus whose body is full of illustrations who meets a wanderer on a street who is shown him the illustrations tatooed on his body. 1951 The Illustrated Man is a 1951 short story collection of eighteen short stories by Ray Bradbury.

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury