In pursuing the solution to this Hollywood Gothic, Bradbury’s unnamed narrator-whose biography parallels Bradbury’s own-introduces us to a host of colorful characters. This grisly prank draws Bradbury’s idealistic hero into the mystery of the executive’s death, a tale that eventually turns into what might be called “The Phantom of the Studio,” with a mysterious “Beast” haunting the back lots of Maximus, killing off anybody who knows what happened to Arbuthnot. Arbuthnot, former head of Maximus, on a ladder, poised to climb from the cemetery to the studio. On Halloween night, 1954, a young screenwriter finds the body of J. The two cities of the novel’s subtitles are the Maximus Films studio and the Green Glades cemetery adjoining it.
“A Graveyard for Lunatics” gives us a nostalgic vision of the young Bradbury and the Hollywood he worked in.
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