Ray Bradbury 1 hr 4 min read

He came out of the earth hating, hate his father, hate his mother. Dead these long years, he walks the world again, unable to breathe, in a future that has abolished death, and darkness, and fear.

Ray Bradbury's 1948 story is a powerful, poetic post-apocalyptic tale of the last dead man in a sanitized world. Haunting, defiant, unforgettable. Read it for a superb Bradbury story where a resurrected corpse wages lonely war on a future that has burned away all its ghosts.

In its time

Published in 1948, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

1 hr 4 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Donel