Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. A Place in the Sun -- 1 Loomings -- 2 Strangers in a Strange Land -- 3 Indecisions, Visions, and Revisions -- 4 Fatal Attraction -- 5 A Whale of a Tale -- 6 "Floreat -- 7 A Place in the Sun -- Part II. The End of the Beginning -- 8 Post-Scripts -- 9 Invitations to the Dance -- 10 Pictures within Pictures: The October Country -- 11 Laughton and Hitchcock -- 12 "The First to Catch a Circus in a Lie Is a Boy -- 13 Various Wines -- 14 The End of the Beginning -- Photos 1 -- Part III. Dark Carnivals -- 15 Strange Interlude: Dandelion Wine -- 16 Return to Hollywood -- 17 "And the Rock Cried Out -- 18 Berenson at Sunset -- 19 The Unforeseen -- 20 Dreams Deferred -- 21 The Great Wide World -- 22 The Dreamers -- 23 Dark Carnivals -- Part IV. "Cry the Cosmos -- 24 Medicines for Melancholy -- 25 Escape Velocity -- 26 Martian Odyssey -- 27 "Cry the Cosmos -- 28 In the Twilight Zone -- 29 Something Wicked This Way Comes -- 30 Out of the Deeps -- 31 Machineries of Joy -- Photos 2 -- Part V. If the Sun Dies -- 32 A Backward Glance -- 33 Stops of Various Quills -- 34 The World of Ray Bradbury -- 35 If the Sun Dies -- 36 Truffaut's Phoenix -- 37 A Colder Eye -- 38 The Isolated Man -- 39 A Touch of the Poet -- 40 "Christus Apollo -- 41 "Take Me Home -- Notes -- Index.