A Medicine for Melancholy
A Medicine for Melancholy is a collection of short stories by American writer 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. All of the included stories were previously published.
Contents
The British and American editions each had a different selection of stories, as well as ordering.| 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" | 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 |