THE DEEP ONES: "The Crowd" by Ray Bradbury
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"The Crowd" by Ray Bradbury
Discussion begins August 16, 2023.
First published in the May 1943 issue of Weird Tales.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?43720
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
Dark Carnival
The October Country
The Dark Descent
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
ONLINE VERSIONS
No legal online versions found to date.
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL1rXnanI8g
MISCELLANY
https://raybradbury.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury
https://www.npr.org/2012/06/08/154524695/ray-bradbury-its-lack-that-gives-us-ins...
https://tinyurl.com/yv9zf86c
Discussion begins August 16, 2023.
First published in the May 1943 issue of Weird Tales.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?43720
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
Dark Carnival
The October Country
The Dark Descent
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
ONLINE VERSIONS
No legal online versions found to date.
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL1rXnanI8g
MISCELLANY
https://raybradbury.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury
https://www.npr.org/2012/06/08/154524695/ray-bradbury-its-lack-that-gives-us-ins...
https://tinyurl.com/yv9zf86c
2AndreasJ
The trademark Bradbury nostalgia isn't much in evidence here.
You apparently join the Crowd by dying among them, but they're material enough to move people about, yet don't show any signs of violent demise themselves. Post-mortem plastic surgery?
You apparently join the Crowd by dying among them, but they're material enough to move people about, yet don't show any signs of violent demise themselves. Post-mortem plastic surgery?
3RandyStafford
Originally I thought the crowd would turn out to be some kind of vampiric entity, but they seem to be ghosts. At least, that's my interpretation given that you have to be dead to join them. But, I suppose, they could be some sort of vampire or zombie.
I suspect this is an early example of urban horror that Fritz Leiber would work in so successfully.
I suspect this is an early example of urban horror that Fritz Leiber would work in so successfully.