A Graveyard for Lunatics

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name = A Graveyard for Lunatics : Another tale of two cities.
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = Ray Bradbury
cover_artist = Wendell Minor
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Mystery novel
publisher = Alfred A. Knopf
release_date = July 1990
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 285 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-394-57877-5 (first edition, hardback)
preceded_by = Death Is a Lonely Business
followed_by = Let's All Kill Constance

"A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another tale of two cities" is a mystery novel by Ray Bradbury, published in 1990. It is the second in a series of three mystery novels that Bradbury wrote featuring a fictionalized version of the author himself as the unnamed narrator.

The novel is set in 1954, when the narrator is working as a writer at a Hollywood motion picture studio, Maximus Films, and reflects Bradbury's experiences working on the movies "It Came from Outer Space", "King of Kings", and "Something Wicked This Way Comes". The studio shares a back wall with an adjoining cemetery (as Paramount Studios really does with Hollywood Forever Cemetery), and most of the story takes place in those two locations.

Two of the novel's characters, stop motion animator Roy Holdstrom and autocratic director Fritz Wong, were based on Bradbury's friends Ray Harryhausen and Fritz Lang. Another character, the shy, blond-haired autograph collector Clarence, may be an alternate autobiographical portrait of Bradbury, who as a teenager waited outside Hollywood studios for glimpses of movie stars.

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coauthors = William G. Contento
title = The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998)
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accessdate = 2007-12-13