The Foghorn Review Launches!
In 1951, Ray Bradbury wrote “The Fog Horn,” a short story about a primeval monster that makes an annual odyssey to a remote lighthouse, attracted by the haunting resonance of the fog horn. Two lighthouse keepers become the awe-struck audience to the tragic drama unfolding. The magnificent gargantuan, supposedly the last of it’s kind is drawn to the sounds of the fog horn. The fog horn stirs up echoes of ancient memories, memories perhaps of a time when the beast wasn’t so alone in its universe. So, stirs a yearning. It travels. It seeks. Driven by an instinctive need to fill – god knows how many eons of emptiness, it surges upward from the depths to woo the fog horn. Sadly, a lighthouse is incapable of returning affection and a fog horn can only call, not answer.
A cool tribute to The Fog Horn by youtube member, jennypirol:
The “Fog Horn” was only one of many stories that fostered my love for this fantastic genre.
Great storytellers have the power stir up our emotions and transform our perceptions. When we explore the strange and improbable, we plumb the depths of human imagination and potential. Science Fiction stories and art don’t just entertain and move us. They give voice to those unspoken yearnings, inchoate desires and possible futures that sometimes seem so elusive, when we try to reconcile ourselves with the pedestrian nature of living in the modern world.
The Foghorn Review is dedicated to recognizing such great stories by writers today.
