A Medicine for Melancholy Author:Ray Bradbury Melancholy can be purged with one flourish of the Bradbury Wand. the famous mood-maker has a method- he plunges you in so deeply into a more powerful emotion that you can't be bothered with a puny little thing like melancholy. There's love in a moonlit garden, shrieking terror on an eerie moor, stories of wander, fantasy and delight.