The Crowd by Ray Bradbury

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast

Tony Walker

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.9 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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A man in a car crash starts wondering how come the crowds gather so fast, and then he wonders why they all look so familiar. He researches the answer and is about to go to the police...A short weird tale by the prolific master of the weird tale, Ray BradburyIf You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In HereYou can become a Patreon of the show for exclusive members’ only stories:https://www.patreon.com/barcud (https://www.patreon.com/barcud)And if you want to thank me (think of a busker’s hat) then you can get me a coffee via http://www.ko-fi.com/tonywalker (www.ko-fi.com/tonywalker)Join my mailing list and get a download: https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire (https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire)Music By The Heartwood Institutehttps://bit.ly/somecomeback (https://bit.ly/somecomeback)Support the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everybody dies, don't they?
0:10.5	Everybody come back.
0:12.6	Isn't that so?
0:14.4	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
0:17.4	How do the dead comeback, mother?
0:20.0	What's the secret? The Crowd by Ray Bradbury.
0:26.3	Mr. Spalner put his hands over his face.
0:30.0	There was the feeling of movement in space, the beautifully tortured scream,
0:34.7	the impact and tumbling of the car with wall, through wall, over and down like a toy,
0:39.4	and him hurled out of it. Then, silence. The crowd came running. Faintly, where he lay, he heard them
0:47.6	running. He could tell their ages and their sizes by the sound of their numerous feet over the summer
0:52.9	grass, and on the lined pavement
0:54.8	and over the asphalt street and picking through the cluttered bricks to where his car hung
1:00.7	half into the night sky still spinning its wheels with senseless centrifuge. Where the crowd came
1:07.7	from he didn't know. He struggled to remain aware, and then the crowd
1:12.4	faces hemmed in upon him, hung over him like the large growing leaves of down-bent trees.
1:19.3	There were a ring of shifting, compressing, changing faces over him, looking down, looking
1:24.0	down, reading the time of his life or death by his face, making his face into
1:29.6	a moon dial, where the moon cast a shadow from his nose out upon his cheek to tell the time
1:35.6	of breathing or not breathing any more after. How swiftly a crowd comes, he thought, like the
1:43.1	iris of an eye compressing in out of nowhere,
1:46.2	a siren, a police voice, movement. Blood trickled from his lips and he was being moved into an
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