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The Fog Horn

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The Fog Horn	label	The Fog Horn
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The Fog Horn	comment	The Fog Horn is a 1951 short story by Ray Bradbury, originally published as "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" in the Saturday Evening Post. Warner Bros. bought the rights to that title for their film The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (which, in turn, would inspire Godzilla). To avoid confusion with the film, which ended up being quite different from his story, Bradbury would retitle his work "The Fog Horn" in future reprints.More recently, "The Fog Horn has inspired the 2019 short film Howl From Beyond The Fog, and the 1997 PokÃ©mon episode "Mystery at the Lighthouse".The story follows a pair of lighthouse workers who have an encounter with a prehistoric creature from the sea which is drawn to the lighthouse foghorn.
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The Fog Horn / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
The Fog Horn / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: The beast destroys the lighthouse at the end of the story after they turn off the foghorn, with the two men barely escaping with their lives. The lighthouse is eventually rebuilt, with steel-reinforced concrete (just in case), but the creature never returns.
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The Fog Horn / int_55c480b5	type	Mighty Roar
The Fog Horn / int_55c480b5	comment	Mighty Roar: The crux of the story is that the lighthouse's foghorn sounds exactly like the mating call of a Not So Extinct species of giant amphibious dinosaur, speculated to be the very last of its species. Once a year, the beast returns to try and court the lighthouse. Johnny describes its roar as vast and piercing through a million years of time, shuddering his body.
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The Fog Horn / int_5b2ab16d	type	TheLastOfHisKind
The Fog Horn / int_5b2ab16d	comment	The Last of His Kind: The creature is implied to be the only living member of its species.
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The Fog Horn / int_5b9925f7	type	Curiosity Killed the Cast
The Fog Horn / int_5b9925f7	comment	Curiosity Killed the Cast: Narrowly subverted. The giant amphibious dinosaur returns to the lighthouse for one night a year to "converse" with its foghorn, because it's probably the Last of Its Kind and mistakes the foghorn for the call of another of its kind, before disappearing by daylight.The older lighthouse keeper is curious to see what would happen if the foghorn is turned off. What happens is the creature becomes aggressive and smashes the lighthouse to rubble, with the two lighthouse keepers barely escaping with their lives by hiding in the cellar.
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The Fog Horn / int_5ba5a470	type	Here There Were Dragons
The Fog Horn / int_5ba5a470	comment	Here There Were Dragons: Much of the story is spent on the two humans mesmerized and awed by the beast, the very last living remnant of a primordial world of swamps and reptile-birds where there once roamed countless thousands like it. And at the end of the story, the creature returns to its hibernation on the bottom of the ocean, to wait out the extinction of humanity.
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The Fog Horn / int_5c47ec4	type	Eldritch Ocean Abyss
The Fog Horn / int_5c47ec4	comment	Eldritch Ocean Abyss: Where the creature lives. McDunn has a whole speech about how little understood the depths of the ocean are, and how much weirdness is probably down there.
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The Fog Horn / int_5ff641e0	type	Long Neck
The Fog Horn / int_5ff641e0	comment	Long Neck: One of the most discernible features of the beast is its extraordinarily long and slender neck, raising the animal's head some forty feet above the water when completely emerged.
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The Fog Horn / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
The Fog Horn / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: The story is set primarily at the lighthouse.
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The Fog Horn / int_68f5e5f4	type	Living Dinosaurs
The Fog Horn / int_68f5e5f4	comment	Living Dinosaurs: Once a year, the lighthouse is visited by a giant aquatic dinosaur that survived extinction by hiding in the ocean depths, mistaking the lighthouse's foghorn for the mating call of its species. The two men speculate that it's probably the last of its kind in existence.
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The Fog Horn / int_7a82c3d2	type	All Love Is Unrequited
The Fog Horn / int_7a82c3d2	comment	All Love Is Unrequited: The creature believes the lighthouse is another of its own kind, returning its calls, but never approaching or otherwise acknowledging its existence. Nonetheless, it returns once a year to meet with the lighthouse, as even the call of another of its kind is distantly comforting to it. Once the creature is denied even this (due to the lighthouse keepers turning off the fog horn just to see what would happen), it destroys the lighthouse in a fit of anger.
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The Fog Horn / int_8ace85ef	type	Audience Surrogate
The Fog Horn / int_8ace85ef	comment	Audience Surrogate: Johnny's role in the story is merely to be the observer, the outsider who is unfamiliar with the creature. He doesn't really contribute to the story at all beyond being someone for McDunn to talk exposition to.
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The Fog Horn / int_8e3b5b4d	type	Minimalist Cast
The Fog Horn / int_8e3b5b4d	comment	Minimalist Cast: Only three characters appear in the story, Johnny (the narrator), McDunn, and the creature. Toward the end, Johnny tells us he has gotten married during a time skip, but we never meet his wife.
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The Fog Horn / int_8f746311	type	Cargo Cult
The Fog Horn / int_8f746311	comment	Cargo Cult: McDunn tells a story about seeing a whole school of fish swim up to the surface and just stare at the lighthouse lamp. He wonders aloud whether the fish thought they were in the presence of some sort of god.
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The Fog Horn / int_93deab19	type	Ominous Fog
The Fog Horn / int_93deab19	comment	Ominous Fog: Ominous because for one night a year it brings with it a giant prehistoric Sea Monster. Once day breaks, the creature doesn't seem to like the warmth of the sun and leaves, presumably because it's become adapted to the dark, cold waters of the ocean depths.
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The Fog Horn / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Fog Horn / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: After the men turn off the foghorn, the creature destroys the lighthouse in a fit of rage, but then seems to regret what it has done and cries out in sorrow. Even after the lighthouse is rebuilt, it never comes back.
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The Fog Horn / int_a2624ce5	type	Aquatic Sauropods
The Fog Horn / int_a2624ce5	comment	Aquatic Sauropods: Maybe. While the exact species isn't made clear, its massive size, amphibiousness, and very long neck are clearly based mainly on sauropods (although it seems to eat fish), as the story was written in the early 1950s, when the idea of them being primarily aquatic (rather than being completely terrestrial, as now know) was the prevailing one.
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The Fog Horn / int_b1c7f430	type	Sea Monster
The Fog Horn / int_b1c7f430	comment	Sea Monster: The creature comes from the sea. Although it's not really a monster, but simply a creature out of time and very lonely, and the two human characters treat it with pity.
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The Fog Horn / int_c34a1799	type	Kaiju
The Fog Horn / int_c34a1799	comment	Kaiju: A Ur-Example; it was adapted into The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, which in turn heavily inspired Godzilla (1954). The story features a giant reptilian beast which destroys a building, but, as is common in many kaiju stories, treated with sympathy, for it is the last of its kind and adapted to a world that disappeared millions of years ago.
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The Fog Horn / int_cc7e9502	type	Humans Are Insects
The Fog Horn / int_cc7e9502	comment	Humans Are Insects: Not a case of something evil, but Johnny sees through the eyes of the creature, imagining it living through millions of years, as the primordial swamps and "reptile-birds" it once knew vanished and were replaced with "white ants upon the hills". At the end of the story, the creature seems to recognize there is no more place for its kind in the world of men and disappears forever, with McDunn speculating it has gone back to hibernate in the ocean abyss for another million years, waiting for mankind to die out before it returns again.
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The Fog Horn / int_d1b4f0ef	type	Everybody Lives
The Fog Horn / int_d1b4f0ef	comment	Everybody Lives: Unlike many of the stories it would go on to inspire, there's an ultimate death count of zero in the end. Both lighthouse keepers survive the creature destroying the building by hiding in the cellar, and the creature itself simply leaves at the end.
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The Fog Horn / int_e35bc0f7	type	Tragic Monster
The Fog Horn / int_e35bc0f7	comment	Tragic Monster: The creature is said to be the last of its kind, and is drawn to the sound of the lighthouse foghorn, which sounds like the mating call of its species, and when the foghorn stops sounding, the creature becomes aggressive and knocks down the lighthouse itself.
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The Fog Horn / int_f5eda11	type	Mix-and-Match Critters
The Fog Horn / int_f5eda11	comment	Mix-and-Match Critters: It's not made clear what sort of dinosaur the creature actually is, although its huge size and long neck seem to suggest it's either a sauropod or a plesiosaur (often lumped in as a dinosaur), or just some indeterminant mishmash of the two, as it's described with traits that don't exactly match either.
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The Fog Horn / int_f5f9708b	type	You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You
The Fog Horn / int_f5f9708b	comment	You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You: McDunn refuses to tell Johnny what exactly happens every year at the lighthouse, specifically because if he did say he knows that there's no way Johnny would actually believe him. So he tells Johnny to stick around and see "it" for himself, rather than explain. After the lighthouse is destroyed by the creature, McDunn lies to rescuers, saying a storm wrecked it and forcing Johnny to agree, presumably because saying "a dinosaur destroyed the building" would be met with ridicule.
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The Fog Horn / int_fd1b902c	type	Non-Malicious Monster
The Fog Horn / int_fd1b902c	comment	Non-Malicious Monster: Even though the creature eventually knocks down the lighthouse, it's not really evil, and, after the lighthouse is destroyed, it returns to the sea without further conflict.
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The Fog Horn / int_ff7d26d0	type	Whateversaurus
The Fog Horn / int_ff7d26d0	comment	Whateversaurus: It's not made clear what sort of animal the creature is, with the only real specifications being that it is amphibious, about ninety to one-hundred feet long, has webbed feet, and possesses a very long neck. Most illustrations and adaptations (such as The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms) depict it as an amalgamation of reptilian traits unidentifiable to any specific dinosaur group, while the comic book adaptation illustrated by Wayne Barlowe depicts it as a giant plesiosaur (thereby making it not actually a dinosaur).
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