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The Short Fiction of Charles Beaumont

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Beaumont was one of the sharpest short-story writers of mid-century American genre fiction, and this collection shows why. Moving between science fiction, horror, and quiet dread, the stories test the seam between dream and waking, sanity and delusion, the ordinary and the monstrous. Many first appeared in the pulp and digest magazines of the 1950s, the same period that produced his celebrated scripts for The Twilight Zone. His style is clean and unsettling, building menace through small wrong details rather than shock. Cut short by illness before he turned forty, Beaumont left a body of short work that has outlasted most of its era.

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Charles Beaumont

Charles Beaumont (1929-1967) was an American author and screenwriter known for his science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories and for writing many episodes of The Twilight Zone. His career was cut short by a rare degenerative illness that killed him at thirty-eight.

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