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.
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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.
The Graveyard Book | St. Lunatics | Hangman's Graveyard | Graveyard of the Atlantic | Graveyard Girl | Graveyard Disturbance | Batavia's Graveyard | St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics on Old Street London. The obelisk spire of St Luke Old Street | Headstone in St. Margaret's Church graveyard, Rottingdean | Graveyard Alive | Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society |