“THE JAR” by Ray Bradbury (Short Science-Fiction Horror Story) #WeirdDarkness #ThrillerThursday

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IN THIS EPISODE: It’s Thriller Thursday, and this time I’m bringing you a classic short story of sci-fi horror from Ray Bradbury entitled, “The Jar.” The story takes us to a carnival side show and to, as Bradbury describes it, "one of those pale things drifting in alcohol plasma,.. with its peeled, dead eyes staring out at you and never seeing you." The protagonist of the story is Charlie, a man so charmed with the jar that he persuades the carnival owner to sell it to him. When he takes the jar home, Charlie's poorly constructed living room becomes the focal point for the oddity. People from miles around come to his rundown shack to sit, in his tiny shabby living room and stare, and philosophize over his jar. Strangely, however, each person who looks at the jar sees something different in it. No one can seem to agree on the thing's eye or hair color, and the thing seems to move; it even seems to change. But I’ll leave it there so as to not spoil the story!
SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“The Jar” by Ray Bradbury: https://amzn.to/3LuUyCA
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Originally aired: July 18, 2024
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