From where did Ray Bradbury derive the title of his novel "Something wicked this way comes"?

Question

I fancy it may be a poem

Answer 1

Macbeth. (by Shakespeare).

"The phrase "something wicked this way comes" originates in Act IV scene 1 of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. The speaker is the second witch, whose full line is, "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." The wicked thing is Macbeth himself, by this point in the play a traitor and murderer." - Wikipedia.

Answer 2

The beginning of this quotation is' by the pricking of my thumbs' which Dame Agatha Christie the famous English mystery writer used as the title of one of her more popular and famous books.

Answer 3

Stolen from Wm. Shakespeare - think ye not?

Answer 4

Yep, it's from Macbeth.