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''The Fog Horn'' is a 1951 short story by Creator/RayBradbury. It would go on to inspire ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'', which, in turn, would inspire ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''. It would also inspire the 2019 short film ''Film/HowlFromBeyondTheFog''.
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''The Fog Horn'' is a 1951 short story by Creator/RayBradbury. It would go on Creator/RayBradbury, originally published as "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" in the ''Saturday Evening Post''. Warner Bros. bought the rights to inspire ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'', which, that title for their film ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'' (which, in turn, would inspire ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''. It ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''). To avoid confusion with the film, which ended up being quite different from his story, Bradbury would also inspire retitle his work "The Fog Horn" in future reprints.
More recently, "The Fog Horn has inspired the 2019 short film''Film/HowlFromBeyondTheFog''.
''Film/HowlFromBeyondTheFog'', and the 1997 ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode "Mystery at the Lighthouse".
More recently, "The Fog Horn has inspired the 2019 short film
* CargoCult: [=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.
* EldritchOceanAbyss: 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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* LightHousePoint: The story is set at a lighthouse.
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* LightHousePoint: The story is set at a lighthouse.fog-shrouded, isolated lighthouse where mysterious things happen.
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* MinimalistCast: Only three characters appear in the story, Johnny (the narrator), [=McDunn=], and the creature.
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* MinimalistCast: 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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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: 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.
* AudienceSurrogate: 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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* CassandraTruth: Defied. [=McDunn=] refuses to tell Johnny what exactly happens every year at the lighthouse, because if he did say, 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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* CassandraTruth: Defied. [=McDunn=] refuses CuriosityKilledTheCast: Narrowly subverted. The giant amphibious dinosaur returns to tell Johnny what exactly happens every year at the lighthouse, because if he did say, 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 for one night a year to rescuers, saying a storm wrecked it and forcing Johnny to agree, presumably "converse" with its foghorn, because saying "a dinosaur destroyed it's probably the building" LastOfItsKind 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 be met happen if the foghorn is turned off. What happens is the creature becomes aggressive and smashes the lighthouse to rubble, with ridicule.the two lighthouse keepers barely escaping with their lives by hiding in the cellar.
* EverybodyLives: 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.
* HereThereWereDragons: 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.
* EverybodyLives: 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.
* HereThereWereDragons: 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.
* MixAndMatchCritters: 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.
* OminousFog: Ominous because for one night a year it brings with it a giant prehistoric SeaMonster. 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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* TrashTheSet: 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, but the creature never returns.
* {{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 ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'') depict it as an amalgamation of reptilian traits unidentifiable to any specific dinosaur group, while the comic book adaptation illustrated by Creator/WayneBarlowe depicts it as a giant plesiosaur (thereby making it not actually a dinosaur).
* {{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 ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'') depict it as an amalgamation of reptilian traits unidentifiable to any specific dinosaur group, while the comic book adaptation illustrated by Creator/WayneBarlowe depicts it as a giant plesiosaur (thereby making it not actually a dinosaur).
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* TrashTheSet: 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.
* {{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 ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'') depict it as an amalgamation of reptilian traits unidentifiable to any specific dinosaur group, while the comic book adaptation illustrated by Creator/WayneBarlowe depicts it as a giant plesiosaur (thereby making it not actually adinosaur).dinosaur).
* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: [=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.
* {{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 ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'') depict it as an amalgamation of reptilian traits unidentifiable to any specific dinosaur group, while the comic book adaptation illustrated by Creator/WayneBarlowe depicts it as a giant plesiosaur (thereby making it not actually a
* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: [=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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* AquaticSauropods: 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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* TheLastOfHisKind: The creature is implied to be the only living member of it's species.
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* CassandraTruth: Defied. [=McDunn=] refuses to tell Johnny what exactly happens every year at the lighthouse, because if he did say, 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.
* HumansAreInsects: 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 "[[HumansAreWhite 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.
* {{Kaiju}}: A UrExample; it was adapted into ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'', which in turn heavily inspired ''Film/Godzilla1954''. 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.
* TheLastOfHisKind: The creature is implied to be the only living member ofit's its species.
* HumansAreInsects: 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 "[[HumansAreWhite 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.
* {{Kaiju}}: A UrExample; it was adapted into ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'', which in turn heavily inspired ''Film/Godzilla1954''. 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.
* TheLastOfHisKind: The creature is implied to be the only living member of
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* LivingDinosaurs: 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.
* LongNeck: 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.
* MightyRoar: The crux of the story is that the lighthouse's foghorn sounds exactly like the mating call of a NotSoExtinct 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.
* MinimalistCast: Only three characters appear in the story, Johnny (the narrator),[=McDunn=] [=McDunn=], and the creature.creature.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: 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.
* LongNeck: 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.
* MightyRoar: The crux of the story is that the lighthouse's foghorn sounds exactly like the mating call of a NotSoExtinct 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.
* MinimalistCast: Only three characters appear in the story, Johnny (the narrator),
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: 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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* PrehistoricMonster: The creature is said to be an aquatic dinosaur.
* SeaMonster: The creature comes from the sea.
* TragicMonster: The creature is said to be the last of it's kind, and is drawn to the sound of the lighthouse foghorn, which sounds like the mating call of it's species, and when the foghorn stops sounding, the creature becomes aggressive and knocks down the lighthouse itself.
* SeaMonster: The creature comes from the sea.
* TragicMonster: The creature is said to be the last of it's kind, and is drawn to the sound of the lighthouse foghorn, which sounds like the mating call of it's species, and when the foghorn stops sounding, the creature becomes aggressive and knocks down the lighthouse itself.
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* TragicMonster: The creature is said to be the last of
* TrashTheSet: 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, but the creature never returns.
* {{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 ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'') depict it as an amalgamation of reptilian traits unidentifiable to any specific dinosaur group, while the comic book adaptation illustrated by Creator/WayneBarlowe depicts it as a giant plesiosaur (thereby making it not actually a dinosaur).
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''The Fog Horn'' is a 1951 short story by Creator/RayBradbury. It would go on to inspire ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'', which, in turn, would inspire ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''. It would also inspire the 2019 short film ''Film/HowlFromBeyondTheFog''.
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* BottleEpisode: The story is set primarily at the lighthouse.
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''The Fog Horn'' is a short story by Creator/RayBradbury. It would go on to inspire ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'', which, in turn, would inspire ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' it ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''. It would also inspire the 2019 short film ''Film/HowlFromBeyondTheFog''.
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''The Fog Horn'' is a short story by Creator/RayBradbury. It would go on to inspire ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'', which, in turn, would inspire ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''.
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''The Fog Horn'' is a short story by Creator/RayBradbury. It would go on to inspire ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'', which, in turn, would inspire ''Franchise/Godzilla''.
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I figure it's about time somebody made a page about this story....
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''The Fog Horn'' is a short story by Creator/RayBradburn. It would go on to inspire ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'', which, in turn, would inspire ''Franchise/Godzilla''.
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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!!This story contains examples of:
* TheLastOfHisKind: The creature is implied to be the only living member of it's species.
* LightHousePoint: The story is set at a lighthouse.
* NonMaliciousMonster: 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.
* PrehistoricMonster: The creature is said to be an aquatic dinosaur.
* SeaMonster: The creature comes from the sea.
* TragicMonster: The creature is said to be the last of it's kind, and is drawn to the sound of the lighthouse foghorn, which sounds like the mating call of it's species, and when the foghorn stops sounding, the creature becomes aggressive and knocks down the lighthouse itself.
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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!!This story contains examples of:
* TheLastOfHisKind: The creature is implied to be the only living member of it's species.
* LightHousePoint: The story is set at a lighthouse.
* NonMaliciousMonster: 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.
* PrehistoricMonster: The creature is said to be an aquatic dinosaur.
* SeaMonster: The creature comes from the sea.
* TragicMonster: The creature is said to be the last of it's kind, and is drawn to the sound of the lighthouse foghorn, which sounds like the mating call of it's species, and when the foghorn stops sounding, the creature becomes aggressive and knocks down the lighthouse itself.
