Ray Bradbury/Nightmare Fuel: Difference between revisions

*** Not to mention the voice of the house...dear god, the voice...

**** Tellingly, that adaptation also leaves out the following lines from the poem:

''Would care at last when it was done.'' }}

*** TI had to read the short story collection/novel (it's hard to tell which it is) "The Martian Chronicles" when I was twelve. Most of the stories were good, fascinating, and occasionally disturbing, but nonetheless good. Then I read that one. It remains one of the most frightening things I have ever read.

*** Not only that, but his skeleton is then {{spoiler|''eaten'' by the monster}}.

** "The Small Assassin". It's a short story about a new father who believes his child is fully aware, fully mobile, and killing things; he tries to involve the doctors who treat him as if these are insane ramblings {{spoiler|despite mounting evidence that the father is actually right}}. Eventually the doctor starts to believe the father. The story includes such immortal lines as:

A scalpel. }}

** "The Watchers" is probably one of the most terrifying things ever penned. In it, the narrator's friend, having feared animals all his life, finally discovers that animals are actually helpers created by God, whereas ''bacteria'' are the real evil creatures. Having discovered this, he starts to be eaten alive before he can tell anyone, takes a boiling-hot shower in a futile attempt to save himself, then wildly drives his car into a ditch. The narrator, seeing his corpse, sets the car on fire, and afterwards is typing out the discovery on his typewriter. The last paragraph or so is a terrifying account of the various germs slowly destroying him from the inside. The story ends with a line of typed gibberish as his eaten-away body fails and presumably falls onto the typewriter. I had trouble even THINKING about germs for a long while after that.