A Medicine for Melancholy Author:Ray Bradbury Melancholy can be purged with one fluourish of the Bradbury wand. The famous mood maker has a method - he plunges you 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, drunken hilarity in a miraculous suit.