The concept of each person in an extended family having special powers is eerily similar to Ray Bradbury's work From The Dust Returned, published as a novel in 2001 but which traces its origins to a 1946 short story and subsequent stories about the Elliott family. In the stories, Timothy is an ordinary mortal who struggles to find his role in a family that includes his adoptive parents, a two thousand year old grandmother, and an assortment of uncles and aunts, cousins, and siblings. Each has a unique mystical power that Timothy lacks. Bradbury and Charles Addams discussed a collaboration using this theme but it never materialized. Instead, Addams' oddball characters found their way into a television series and movies based mostly on his cartoons from The New Yorker.
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05-03-2025 alle ore 07:24