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The Beautiful People is a cautionary Sci Fi short stories & anthologies under an hour, Sci Fi fantasy, Sci Fi classic about a rebellious adolescent girl in a future conformist society in which people are obligated to alter their physical appearance (adapted as an episode of Twilight Zone, "Number 12 Looks Just Like You") by Charles Beaumont. Sci Fi year. Sci Fi Dark Fantasy. Fantasy Contemporary.
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The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zone writer
It is only natural that Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone—for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont's finest stories, including five that he later adapted for Twilight
...3) A Spy Alone
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Everyone knows about the Cambridge Spies from the Fifties, identified and broken up after passing national secrets to the Soviets for years… But no spy ring was ever unearthed at Oxford.
Because one never existed? Or because it was never found…?
2022: Former spy Simon Sharman is eking out a living in the private sector. When a commission to delve into the financial dealings of a mysterious Russian oligarch comes across his desk, he jumps at...
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Amazing Stories Volume 103 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are three short stories by Charles Beaumont: "Elegy", "The Beautiful People", and "Traumerei", three stories by Norman Arkway, "Peace", "Night Court", and "Selling Point".
5) Free Dirt
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A penny-pincher carts off free soil from a graveyard in which to grow his own fruits and vegetables - but eventually the free dirt gets him in over his head.
6) The Intruder
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A fascinating portrait of mid-1950s America by the iconic Charles Beaumont
He was a leader of men, but he was evil. He was a stranger, but he brought lust and love, rape and hate to this quiet Southern town. He was … the intruder.
It was a sleepy Southern town with nice folks and good schools. Then the intruder arrived from the North. With him came trouble, fear, and hate so vicious it could turn neighbor against neighbor, child against child,...
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A collection of horror stories by the iconic Charles Beaumont
When The Hunger and Other Stories first appeared in 1957, it heralded the arrival of Charles Beaumont as an important and highly original new voice in American fiction. Although he is best known today for his scripts for television and film, including several classic episodes of The Twilight Zone, Beaumont is being rediscovered as a master of weird tales, and this, his first published...
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A classic "wrong man" suspense novel, Run from the Hunter is a fast-paced, tightly plotted thriller about a man convicted of a crime he did not commit.
Chris Adams has been framed for the murder of Steffany Fontaine. While on his way to prison, there is a spectacular train crash in which he escapes, giving him the opportunity to set out to prove his innocence. But everywhere he turns-every street, every alley-the real killers lie in wait.
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For the oddball in you, flights into the sinister and fantastic
The stories in this third collection from a master of speculative fiction are at once playful and dark, but each is wonderfully told.
Contents include
The Music of the Yellow Brass
A Classic Affair
The New People
Buck Fever
The Magic Man
Father, Dear Father
Perchance to Dream
Song for a Lady
The Trigger
The Guests of Chance (with Chad Oliver)
The Love-Master
A Death in the Country
The...
13) The intruder
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[2007]
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Special edition.
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"Arriving in a sleepy Southern town on the eve of integration, slick charismatic Adam Cramer is an ominous influence, inciting its white citizens into a racial fervor, and plunging the once quiet community into a state of chaos."--Container.
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Route 66 volume 13
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Tod becomes a race car driver as he and Buz get involved in a family controversy over whether an aging driver should retire.
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[2002]
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Side A. The masque of the red death. The evil Prince Prospero is a devil worshipper and a tyrannical ruler. Anyone who stands against him is sentenced to death. Two men dare to denounce the Prince and are imprisoned. A beautiful woman pleads for their release, but is captured by the Prince for his own pleasures. The two prisoners are brought to the Prince at his "Masque Ball" for public torture. But there is one uninvited guest standing in the shadows...
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