For those of us who saw the Disney movie first, the novel “Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury is something of a bait-and-switch in reverse–at least, if you are looking for a depiction of a librarian. The most immediate difference is that in the movie, the adult protagonist, Charles Halloway is a librarian; in Bradbury’s novel, he is the library’s janitor! I suppose the powers-that-be at Disney decided that janitors can’t be heros? Have they not seen The Toxic Avenger?

The Toxic Avenger

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