What's this story and who wrote it?

Question

It's a sci-fi about a children's playroom that turns into whatever they want. But then something goes wrong and the playroom become real, and the parents get caught and die (as far as I remember).

I think it's by Ray Bradbury.

Answer 1

The story is called "The Veldt";  you are correct - it's by Ray Bradbury.  You can read the whole story here:

http://veddma.narod.ru/Ve     "George, I wish you'd look at the nursery."

     "What's wrong with it?"

     "I don't know."

     "Well, then."

     "I  just want you  to look at it, is all, or call a  psychologist in to

look at it."

     "What would a psychologist want with a nursery?"

     "You know very well what he'd want." His  wife  paused in the middle of

the kitchen and  watched the stove busy humming to itself, making supper for

four.

     "It's just that the nursery is different now than it was."

     "All right, let's have a look."

     They  walked down the hall of their soundproofed Happylife  Home, which

had  cost them thirty thousand  dollars  installed, this house which clothed

and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang  and was good to  them.

Their approach sensitized  a switch somewhere and the nursery  light flicked

on when  they  came within ten  feet  of it. Similarly, behind them, in  the

halls,  lights  went  on  and off  as they  left  them  behind, with a  soft

automaticity.

     "Well," said George Hadley.

     They  stood  on the  thatched floor of the nursery. It  was  forty feet

across by forty  feet long and thirty feet high;  it had cost half  again as

much as the rest  of the house. "But nothing's  too good for  our children,"

George had said...."

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