![]() ![]() “A big lonely animal crying in the night. “Sounds like an animal, don’t it?” McDunn nodded to himself. ![]() ‘The Fog Horn was blowing steadily, once every fifteen seconds. ‘The ocean It rolls and swells a thousand shapes and colors, no two alike.’ Here are some quotes to whet your appetite: Keeping this brief review spoiler-free, I will just say that Bradbury’s descriptions of the sea and the sound of the fog horn are simply stunning. It contains themes of loneliness, isolation, companionship, the power of nature, as well as how little we know about the vast depths of the ocean. ![]() The Fog Horn is a tale of two men who work at a secluded lighthouse and what they witness there on a cold November night. This is the first of my Hallowe’en Reads 2018. I came across it in his 1953 short story collection The Golden Apples of the Sun, which is a HUGE recommendation if you haven’t yet read it. Ray Bradbury’s The Fog Horn was first published in 1951 in The Saturday Evening Post. ‘I’ll make a sound that’s so alone that no one can miss it, that whoever hears it will weep in their souls, and hearths will seem warmer, and being inside will seem better to all who hear it in the distant towns.’ ![]()
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