A Graveyard for Lunatics by Ray Bradbury. Short summary

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During a holiday party, a Hollywood screenwriter runs into an entrepreneur. The nuance of the meeting is that the entrepreneur died twenty years ago. On the same day.

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It’s October 31st. It’s Halloween all over the United States of America. What makes this day noteworthy is that children dress up in costumes symbolizing themselves as monsters and monsters. The symbolist meaning of the holiday also lies in the proximity of the living with the world of the dead.

Hollywood didn’t skip this holiday either. At one studio, whose building adjoins a cemetery, there was a party devoted to the holiday. There was also a screenwriter, who came into the world of cinema through literature, having noted interesting works of fiction to read.

During the event, the screenwriter runs into an entrepreneur who owns one of the many studios in Hollywood. But the problem lies in the identity of the businessman. The screenwriter recognizes the man. He died twenty years ago. And the businessman died on exactly the same day and at a similar time of day.