The last of a species of dinosaur, it is speculated. This creature is big, with great eyes that reflect the light of the lighthouse, with a great neck, and a massive, hulking body. In this story, two lighthouse attendants witness a great creature rising up from the depths. In 1951, Bradbury published a short story called The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. His other publications include Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated Man, and are also very well regarded. And so is perhaps true with ‘The Fog Horn’, a short story published by science-fiction writer, Ray Bradbury.īradbury is perhaps best known now for his novel Fahrenheit 451, one of the staples of mid-twentieth-century dystopian fiction, featuring a society which has prohibited the possession of books, with the fire department now in charge of creating fires, not extinguishing them, to rid the world of the paperback devils. So many stories have had those they influence outlast their humble beginnings. Werewolves changing with the full moon is common knowledge, but we forget that this concept was first properly grounded in the public consciousness by the 1943 film Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man. Everyone has heard of Sweeney Todd, but very few could say that he first appeared in a penny dreadful called The String of Pearls. There are stories out there that have legacies that transcend their origins.
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