The Mad Wizards of Mars by Ray Bradbury

After reading Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, I decided to hit some of those anthologies I have lying around the house. This particular one, The Witchcraft Reader, is filled with some great stuff. The particular story I have to discuss is "The Mad Wizards of Mars." The story is about human astronauts traveling to Mars with a case of great horror tales (Ambrose Bierce, E. A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, etc.). Back on earth, during the last half of the 20th century, all fiction of the supernatural has been burned, but the authors are all living on Mars. Now, earthlings are coming, and the great gothic, weird horror scribes are frightened of the fate that follows the earthmen's rocket blast.
After watching a documentary on the history of EC Comic's Tales From the Crypt horror comics and their troubles with mad psychiatrists and comic codes, I can't help but see the parallels Bradbury is trying to make; after all, people were actually burning horror comic books during this time in America.