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Touched with Fire

Ray Bradbury

First published 1955
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A pair of insurance salesmen develop a process of predicting who is about to die prematurely, and attempt to intervene.

First published in Maclean's Magazine, June 1954. Adapted by Bradbury for television for "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" as "Shopping for Death" (1956). Adapted by Bradbury for television for "The Ray Bradbury Theatre" (1990).

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1955 Cover The October Country Ballantine Books Collection 125
1956 Cover The October Country Hart-Davis Collection 125
April 1956 Cover The October Country Ballantine Books Collection 113
1961 Cover The October Country Ace UK Collection 71
March 1962 Cover The October Country Ballantine Books Collection 113
1963 Cover The October Country Four Square Books Collection 78
September 1964 Cover The October Country Ballantine Books Collection 113
September 1964 Cover The October Country Ballantine Books Collection 113
November 1964 Cover The October Country Four Square Books Collection 78
February 1967 Cover The October Country Ballantine Books Collection 113
July 1968 Cover The October Country Ballantine Books Collection 113
June 1969 Cover The October Country Ballantine Books Collection 113
July 1970 Cover The October Country Alfred A. Knopf Collection 113
December 1970 Cover The October Country New English Library Collection 78
February 1971 The October Country Ballantine Books Collection 113
July 1971 Cover The October Country Ballantine Books Collection 113
June 1972 Cover The October Country Ballantine Books Collection 113
February 1973 The October Country Ballantine Books Collection 113
April 1973 Cover The October Country New English Library Collection 78
June 1973 Cover The October Country Ballantine Books Collection 113
January 1974 The October Country Ballantine Books Collection 113
November 1974 The October Country Alfred A. Knopf Collection 113
September 1975 Cover The October Country Ballantine Books Collection 113
1976 Cover The October Country Panther Collection 85
June 1978 Cover The October Country Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 113
October 1980 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 346
December 1980 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 346
1981 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Granada Collection 346
February 1981 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 346
March 1981 Cover The October Country Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 113
December 1982 The October Country Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 113
January 1983 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury, Volume 1 Granada Collection
1984 Cover The October Country Panther Collection 85
1985 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury, Volume 1 Granada Collection
February 1985 The October Country Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 125
1987 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury, Volume 1 Grafton Collection 554
October 1990 The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 346
1993 Cover The October Country Ballantine Books Collection 125
October 1996 Cover The October Country Del Rey / Ballantine Collection 125
October 1996 Cover The October Country Ballantine Books Collection 124|125
September 1997 Cover The October Country Gauntlet Press Collection
1998 Cover The October Country Earthlight Collection 125
September 1999 Cover The October Country Avon Books Collection 135
December 2008 The Ray Bradbury Gift Set PS Publishing Omnibus
December 2008 The Ray Bradbury Gift Set PS Publishing Omnibus
December 2008 Cover Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1 HarperVoyager Collection
April 2010 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection
April 2010 Cover The Stories of Ray Bradbury Alfred A. Knopf Collection 419
June 2012 Cover Ray Bradbury Stories Volume 1 Harper Voyager (UK) Collection
June 2018 Cover The October Country Recorded Books Collection |135