A Medicine for Melancholy

A Medicine for Melancholy
Dust-jacket illustration from the first edition
Author(s)	Ray Bradbury
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Soft science fiction short stories
Publisher	Doubleday & Company
Publication date	1959
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	240 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0-380-73086-3 (paperback reprint)
OCLC Number	38229379

A Medicine for Melancholy (1959) is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. It was first published in the UK by Hart-Davis in 1959 as The Day It Rained Forever with a slightly different list of stories.

Contents

Story	US Edition	UK Edition
"In a Season of Calm Weather"	1	4
"The Dragon"	2	9
"A Medicine for Melancholy"	3
"The End of the Beginning"	4	18
"The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit"	5	15
"Fever Dream"	6	2
"The Marriage Mender"	7	12
"The Town Where No One Got Off"	8	7
"A Scent of Sarsaparilla"	9	5
"Icarus Montgolfier Wright"	10	3
"The Headpiece"	11	13
"Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed"	12	17
"The Smile"	13	11
"The First Night of Lent"	14
"The Time of Going Away"	15	14
"All Summer in a Day"	16
"The Gift"	17	10
"The Great Collision of Monday Last"	18
"The Little Mice"	19	16
"The Shore Line at Sunset", vt "The Sunset Harp" (UK ed.)	20	22
"The Strawberry Window"	21	6
"The Day It Rained Forever"	22	1
"Referent"		21
"Almost the End of the World"		20
"Here There Be Tygers"		8
"Perchance to Dream"		23
"And the Rock Cried Out"		19

Cover from a reprint edition

References

• Contento, William G.. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition". http://contento.best.vwh.net/t15.htm#A346. Retrieved 2007-10-05. 
• Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 63. ISBN 0-911682-20-1. 
• A Medicine for Melancholy contents list at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB).
• The Day It Rained Forever contents list at the ISFDB.