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Pillar of Fire

By: Ray Bradbury
Narrated by: Alex Freeman
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Pillar of Fire by Ray Bradbury is a haunting and philosophical science fiction novella that explores the boundaries between life and death in a sterile, futuristic society that has abolished the very concept of mortality.

When William Lantry, a man long dead, awakens in a world where death has been erased from memory and corpses are destroyed rather than buried, he becomes the last ghost of humanity’s forgotten fear. Driven by loneliness and rage, Lantry wages a one-man war against a civilization that refuses to remember its dead.

Bradbury’s chilling tale is both a meditation on human emotion and a gothic confrontation between memory, mortality, and progress—a story that challenges what it means to truly be alive in an age without death. Perfect for fans of classic speculative fiction, dystopian futures, and gothic horror.

Public Domain (P)2025 Integrated Media Systems, LLC Classics Dystopian Science Fiction
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