Ray Bradbury — Writer
Afsnit 53
Marionettes, Inc.
John Raleigh Braling is a computer salesman who receives a cryptic message on his computer screen. Later he receives the same message in a newspaper and on a lunch bill. He tracks down source of the messages and meets a man who offers to sell him a robot replica of himself.
Læs mereThe Playground
When Charles Underhill was a boy, he was tormented by neighborhood bullies. When his son begins playing in a local playground, he becomes deeply disturbed when he sees a bully from his youth.
Læs mereThe Crowd
A neon sign artist named Joe Spelliner is injured in a car crash and sees a crowd of onlookers quickly gather. Days later he sees another car crash and notices that again the same crowd quickly gathers. He begins to investigate a series of accidents and news footage reveals that the same crowd arrives at every scene. What's more, Joe notices that the faces in the crowd match photographs of people at the city morgue.
Læs mereThe Town Where No One Got Off
A city writer learns a lesson when he takes an idealistic view of rural life, but discovers the truth is far different when he impulsively leaves a train to explore a small town.
Læs mereThe Screaming Woman
A girl can't convince anyone that she hears a screaming woman buried in the forest near her house.
Læs mereThe Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl
A hasty murderer tries to wipe off the fingerprints that he left at the crime scene... and realizes the overwhelming nature of his task.
Læs mereThe Emissary
A lonely, bedridden boy sends his dog on a quest to locate a companion for him.
Læs mereThe Man Upstairs
An American boy living with his grandmother in Paris for the summer takes an interest in a new boarder.
Læs mereThe Small Assassin
A woman is terrorized by her newborn infant.
Læs merePunishment Without Crime
A man contracts to have an android made to look exactly like the wife he hates... so he can murder it.
Læs mereOn the Orient, North
A nurse gives aid to a ghost on a transcontinental train trip and escorts him to his final destination.
Læs mereThe Coffin
An aging inventor builds a custom designed casket as his final creation... and to inflict revenge on a greedy brother.
Læs mereTyrannosaurus Rex
A film animator sculpts a dinosaur for a tyrannical movie producer's latest film, but the man isn't satisfied unless it's the most terrifying beast of all.
Læs mereThere Was an Old Woman
Elderly Matilda isn't ready to die when Death arrives to carry her off in a wicker basket.
Læs mereAnd So Died Riabouchinska
A police detective investigates a murder at a theater and questions ventriloquist John Fabian, his wife, and his agent. However, he discovers a fourth witness: Fabian's dummy. Riabouchinska, who has a mind of her own.
Læs mereA Miracle of Rare Device
Two drifters sell views to a desert mirage, a mirage that provides miraculous views, but a rival tries to buy the land and shut them down.
Læs mereThe Pedestrian
A man's night-time walks are considered subversive in a world of the future.
Læs mereA Sound of Thunder
Time Safari, Inc., uses time travel to allow big game hunters the ultimate thrill: killing dinosaurs.
Læs mereThe Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone
When an unsuccessful author comes to murder him, a famous and prolific writer decides to make things easy for him.
Læs mereThe Haunting of the New
A man's old flame calls him up and asks him if he wants her manor. The only condition is that the manor has to decide if it wants him.
Læs mereTo the Chicago Abyss
In the near future, an old man is sought after for his memories of the past, a past that the government forbids people from remembering.
Læs mereHail and Farewell
Willie, a young boy who cannot grow up, has been spending his life going from family to family, staying for a few years, then leaving before anyone finds out. As he is ready to leave his latest home, he tells his "parents" the story of his life, and of all the people he met in the way.
Læs mereBoys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
A worried father starts to believe that his son's mushroom garden is taking over the neighborhood.
Læs mereMars Is Heaven
As the first successful mission to Mars touches down, the men stare through the mists of the Martian dawn and finds something strange: a small town straight out of the American Midwest, filled with their long-lost loved ones.
Læs mereThe Murderer
Albert Brock loathes noise and prefers perfect silence. He goes around destroying the instruments of sound: radios, wrist watches, faxes, etc. His destruction of sound-infected environments at work and home lands him in a psychiatric institution.
Læs mereTouched with Fire
Two men who theorize that murder only happen in hot weather, try to stop one.
Læs mereThe Black Ferris
Hank Walterson sneaks into the carnival at night and watches the owner, Mr. Cooger, ride the Ferris wheel backward until he becomes a young boy... who sets out to rob the local widow of her jewels.
Læs mereTouch of Petulance
A man encounters another claiming to be his future self.
Læs mereAnd the Moon Be Still as Bright
Space explorers on a Martian expedition are faced with problems when one of their members becomes obsessed with the planet's former residents.
Læs mereThe Toynbee Convector
A man time travels to the future and returns to show the people what they have to look forward to.
Læs mereThe Lonely One
After discovering the body of the latest victim of the serial killer known as The Lonely One, Lavinia persuades her friends to go to the movies to take their minds off the tragedy. The result is a long, scary midnight walk home for the increasingly terrified Lavinia.
Læs mereThe Happiness Machine
A family man, incorrigible dreamer and small-town inventor is inspired to build a machine that can create happiness. However, his wife makes him realize the irony of such concept.
Læs mereTomorrow's Child
An experimental childbirth procedure results in a couple's baby being born into another dimension. The child's non-human appearance puts a lot of strain on the new parents and threatens to send the wife into madness.
Læs mereThe Anthem Sprinters
An American author on a visit to Dublin stops by a pub where he is caught up in the excitement over a local sporting event known as "anthem sprinting." In this challenge runners compete to see who can get out of the theater fastest during the pause between the end of the film and the start of the Irish national anthem and this time the stakes are the American's first edition of Joyce versus the pub's Sean O'Casey autographed playbill.
Læs mereBy the Numbers
The manager of a hotel pool drills his young son with military precision, leading to tragedy.
Læs mereThe Long Rain
When an army spaceship crash lands on a world where it never stops raining, the four survivors try to reach the Sundome that has been erected on the planet and provides the only shelter. But exhaustion hits and predatory plants await.
Læs mereThe Dead Man
A lonely middle-aged woman moves to a small town to take a job as a manicurist and finds she is strangely drawn to local eccentric Odd Martin--who claims to be dead.
Læs mereSun and Shadow
An American film crew arrives in a Mexican village to shoot a TV commercial; Ricardo, a townsman, interferes with the filming because he resents his life being treated as a colorful prop by these arrogant interlopers.
Læs mereSilent Towns
A technician accidentally stranded on Mars by a sudden evacuation searches desperately for another human being on the desolate world. When he finds an equally lonely woman, she is not what he was expecting.
Læs mereDownwind from Gettysburg
Walter Bayes has devoted his life to creating a robot duplicate of Abraham Lincoln to inspire the American people to recommit themselves to the nation's ideals. On the night of its unveiling, however, a maniac named Booth plots to assassinate the Presidential automaton.
Læs mereSome Live Like Lazarus
A young couple falls in love but his domineering mother comes between them; when the old woman finally dies--forty years later--the next step is not very clear.
Læs mereThe Handler
A small town mortician takes a perverse delight in exacting postmortem revenge against his enemies, until his day of reckoning arrives.
Læs mereFee Fie Foe Fum
A vicious prankster convinces his wife's mean old grandmother that he is planning to kill her and her pets and grind them up in the new garbage disposal that he bought for her.
Læs mereGreat Wide World Over There
Cora Gibbs is an illiterate woman living on an isolated farm with her much older husband. When her educated nephew Benjy visits for the summer, she sees her opportunity to connect with the "great wide world over there" by sending and receiving mail.
Læs mereThe Tombstone
A bickering couple checks into the last available room in a small hotel only to discover that the previous occupant left a tombstone in the room. No one gets any sleep as the wife is now convinced the room is haunted.
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