while we're on bradbury...

i remember reading a bradbury story once (it was in an anthology of some sort, so i don't know what collection of his stories it'd be in) that was a variation on the "and now we're all locked in safe for the evening" plot (where someone reaches home safely in the nick of time, only to find they're locked in with the killer). it involved a small town where there'd been murders (?) recently, and some young girls going home late, and one of them has a long walk to get to her house, & she keeps hearing someone behind her, and she finally reaches her home & runs inside steps ahead of them... and the last line was something to the effect of "in the dark living room behind her, someone cleared his throat."

anyone remember it?

"The Whole Town's Sleeping" :) I have the "100 most celebrated" Bradbury stories anthology, and it is actually the first story in there. ah, gotta love Bradbury. haunting

that's also a chapter in 'dandelion wine' - many of his short stories later made their way into his novels.

thank you so much! i'd still been trying to figure this out, & looking through all the bradbury i could find at my job (a bookstore), & no luck... i'd forgotten to check back here for a while. hurrah!