Will Lantery succeed in creating an army of living dead?

Ray Bradbury, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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The story is referenced several times in today's story as well as many works by Ambrose Beers and HP Lovecraft.

Today's story was originally released in the summer issue of Planet Stories in 1948.

Last week, William Lantery awoke from his coffin in a graveyard.

He was dead, yet he could move and speak.

The year was 2348 or so, and he'd been dead around 350 years.

The new world had no graveyards, and all bodies were burned in a great incinerator which made a pillar of fire to the heavens.

Along with the graveyards, fear, superstition, and macabre imagination were also sterilized in this new world.

So Lantery came up with a plan to destroy the incinerators and create an army of living dead friends.

And now, pillar of fire, part two of two, by Ray Bradbury.

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