# Something Wicked This Way Comes

**Author(s):** Ray Bradbury
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/something-wicked-this-way-comes/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-classics, literary-fiction, sci-fi
**Publisher:** Blackstone Audiobooks
**Published:** Mon Oct 01 2007 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781433210792
**ISBN-10:** 1433210797
**ASIN:** B0DVBL912R
**Amazon categories:** Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror
**Amazon binding:** + $4.99 shipping
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/something-wicked-this-way-comes

## SageChimp reader verdict

Something Wicked This Way Comes has only 1 unpaid published review on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 1 (avg 4.5/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/something-wicked-this-way-comes/verdict.json

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## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★★★½ A must read classic — r-s-curtis
Its hard to believe that this book was written in 1962 because it felt relevant in 2026.  The prose is beautiful (a tad purple at times) and it really transported me into the story.  The opening pages took me back to the autumns of my youth in the 80's so completely that I could swear I could smell the rain mingling with pine and wood smoke.  Is the story perfect?  No, but it was good enough to captivate me from start to finish.  This is a book that I would recommend to anyone who enjoys a good