"The Fog Horn" is a 1951 science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury, the first in his collection The Golden Apples of the Sun. The story was the basis for the 1953 action horror film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.

‘The Fog Horn’ is a 1951 short story by Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), republished in 1953 as the opening story in his collection The Golden Apples of the Sun. The story, which is about a lighthouse whose foghorn emits a noise which attracts the attention of a primeval dinosaur living miles below the ocean, contains a number of key themes of ...

Ray Bradbury’s somber tale of a lonesome foghorn and the creature it calls to up from the ancient depths. First published in 1951, this demonstrates Bradbury’s great ability to create a mood with setting and language. A master of the short work medium, Bradbury’s work here is exceptional, producing a narrative depth with a minimalism of words.

Ray Bradbury: The Foghorn ----- OUT there in the cold water, far from land, we waited every night for the coming of the fog, and it came, and we oiled the brass machinery and lit the fog light up in the stone tower. Feeling like two birds in the grey sky, McDunn and I sent the light touching out, red, then white, then red

In "The Fog Horn," the narrator and a man named McDunn work in a stone tower, far out from land, to alert ships passing through the fog of their proximity to land. The tower emitted red and white lights, as well as a "Voice," the deep cry that the Fog Horn sent out into the world.

Nov 21, 2024 · "The Fog Horn", originally published as "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms", is a 1951 American science-fiction short story written by renowned genre author Ray Bradbury. It debuted in the June 23, 1951, issue of The Saturday Evening Post.

His books include The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Bradbury Speaks.

A prehistoric reptilian monster seeking another of its own kind rises from the sea when it hears a bellowing fog horn calling to it.

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