'Risen from the Dust' is a novel whose origins lie in the stories 'April Witchcraft,' 'Uncle Einar,' and 'The Wanderer,' which more than one generation of Soviet, and then Russian, readers grew up on. This book was written over half a century, reflecting all the most important events of the 20th century, but reflecting them in a way only Bradbury could—through childhood.

The Elliot family chronicle, the heroes of 'Risen from the Dust,' intertwines the stories of Count Dracula and an Egyptian mummy, a mouse that traveled halfway around the world and the ghost of the Orient Express, four disembodied cousins, and the Voice of Thebes.