His doctors have warned him that a bad scare will finish him. As a child, he believed he had the ability to make his dreams come true. Lately, he has been having a reoccurring dream that gets further along each time he has it. He is at a carnival and a woman has grabbed his hand and plans to take him on a roller coaster. He knows that the next time he dreams she is going to get him on the roller coaster and he will have a heart attack.
At this point, the psychiatrist calls in his receptionist. Upon seeing her Hall freaks out and says she is the girl from his dream and that his dreams have become real again. In a panic, he jumps out of the office window and falls to his death. However, it is then revealed that this is a dream and that Hall walked into the office, sat on the couch and fell asleep, and a minute after died. Disappearing Act by Richard Matheson https: This is one that I have not seen.
An unnamed author is writing about the last few weeks of his life. A couple of weeks ago he had an argument with his wife over money, in particular, his inability to provide with a writing career he is pursuing. The fight escalates and he leaves the house and looks up a friend of his. A few drinks later they look up some girls they know and one thing leads to another and he ends up having an affair.
The next morning he is sorry and starts to try to make things up to his wife, without telling her. However, any peace he builds up gets thrown out the window when he receives another rejection slip from a publisher. The author starts to think about how nice the girl was to him and about cheating. He goes to give a call to her apartment, this is when some of the apartment houses shared a phone and asks for her. No one at the apartment house knows of her. The next day while at work he tries to call her work and ask for her, they say they have never had an employee by that name.
Confused he calls his friend who was with him that night. Being circumspect he tries to ask about the girl but his friend acts like he has no idea what happened. After some time to think it over the author decides that he must have not asked directly and tries to call his friend. As the days go on more and more people he knows no longer exist and no one he talks to knows who they were.
Eventually, he goes into his part-time job only to find it not there. Then he gets home and finds his wife is gone. The story ends with him speculating that he will soon disappear, the last sentence ending mid-word. Time Enough at Last by Lynne A. This is a favorite of a friend of mine and I like it as well.
Henry Bemis is a mild-mannered man who just wants to read but is never able to find the time to do so. One day while in the vault of his bank there is a large explosion and part of the bank collapses. By the time he is able to get out the rubble he finds that it looks like there has been some type of attack that has killed all the humans on earth but him. Most of the city is damaged but quite a bit of it is still standing. He makes his way through town till he gets to the library and it occurs to him that he finally has time to read.
However, as he is rejoicing his glasses fall off and break revealing that he has terrible sight and will be unable to read without them. The story and the show do differ some. In the show, the man is always trying to read but keeps getting pulled away by his wife, his boss, and others. In the show it makes the man looks bad and his wife a shrew, I feel the characters come out more likable in this version. Another big difference is that after the bomb goes off there are a few descriptions in the story of what he sees, including bodies in various states of damage. The show did not have any of this, just sets full of bricks and broken windows.
The last difference is in the show when he leans over to pick up a book he drops his glasses. Something he would not have done considering how careful he is with them. In the story a piece of the rock he is sitting on snaps off dumping him, making the glass breaking more believable. What You Need by Lewis Padgett https: A man who is a reporter, I guess he is what we would now call an expose reporter, is looking for his next story when he notices a sign for a store.
He tries to interview the store owner only to be turned down. Not taking a no he starts to watch the customers and the delivery boy and eventually thinks he has enough information to force a story.
Claiming that the store is a scam he says he will write a report about a store that sells ordinary items such as eggs for thousands of dollars. The owner says that if he is quiet he will take the reporter on as a client and that his first and only order will be free, after that he does not want to see the reporter again.
He goes in the back and then returns and hands the reporter a package. Outside the reporter finds that the package contains a pair of tailor shears. Miffed that he has no story and thinking the shears are a joke he puts the item into his pocket and heads to the office to catch his boss. The boss is next to a printing press and when the reporter goes to talk to the boss, the reporter's tie gets caught in the press and starts to pull him to what would be a grisly death.
He remembers the shears and cuts the tie. The next day the reporter breaks his promise and returns to the store saying that he has to know what he needs the next day. The owner hands him a pair of dress shoes that have no traction on the bottom. The reporter puts them on and leaves. In the back of the office, the reporter turns on a machine and watches the reporter walk out of the store and into the subway.
During a bit of crowding the reporter is pushed and because his shoes are slick, he loses balance and falls onto the track, then he is run over by a train. It is revealed that the machine is showing the future. The man then tunes into the future where he instead gave the reporter a good pair of shoes and sees that the reporter will keep extorting him until one day he becomes greedy and decides to kill the shop owner for his machine. An astronaut is supposed to take his spaceship up for a test flight.
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He has different plans. The world is going to hell in a handbasket and a devastating war is about to break out so he has gotten his family and a few friends together. They plan on leaving the world and finding another planet to live on. The astronaut has squirreled away food and other resources on the spaceship. He uses the excuse that his family wants to say goodbye to get them on the base.
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They sneak into the ship and he takes off. Once in space, the Astronaut reveals their destination as being a small yellow sun, in particular, the third planet from the sun. Damaged a spaceship makes a landing on an asteroid that seems to have a biosphere on it. After landing the crew walk around and find the biosphere is set up like earth and that there are different scenes set upon them. In each of the scenes, lifelike mannequins are set in various poses. Eventually, they discover an old man named Mr. Greypool, who introduces himself as the caretaker. He serves all the men wine and starts to tell about the place.
It is a cemetery for the rich. When someone rich dies they have their body sent to space and get placed into a set that is decorated like the place they loved the most. This means that some of the mannequins are actually bodies.
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Creeped out the Captain orders his men to the ship. As they board they all start to get tired and one by one die. Grepool enters and tells the captain that he will make sure that the ship and his crew are well taken care of and starts to finish the embalming process he started with chemicals in the wine. After everything is set and still the caretaker goes back to a rocking chair and stops moving. It is revealed he is more robot than human and goes into suspended animation unless there is work. Brothers Beyond the Void by Paul Fairman https: I feel like I have seen this one but not sure.
An astronaut lands on a planet and discovers it is inhabited. He works on learning their language and being peaceful with them. Eventually one day he wakes up and finds they have built him a house, based on drawings he made for them. He gets in and the front windows open.
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He sees a sign and realizes that sentient life is the same everywhere and that he is now an exhibit at a zoo. I thought the whole backpack through the European countryside was a newer thing, however here is a story from the fifties where the protagonist does just that. It starts off as a good trip but somewhere along the way he picks up a virus and wakes up in a monastery. Everything seems normal and he has a monk introduce himself explaining that he got close to dying. During the middle of the conversation, the young man hears a howling.
However, the monk acts like he heard nothing. This goes on for a few days as he recovers. Finally, one day as the monk is sleeping the man slips out and finds a cell where the screaming is coming from. Inside there is a man who claims that he was kidnapped from his family by the monks. Before he can do anything the monk finds him and brings him to the director of the monastery. The director explains that the man is not a man, but instead the devil in human form. The monks keep him in a cell and ever since there has been peace in the world.
Feigning interest, the young man acts like he believes it and returns to his room. That night he slips the man out of his cell. Immediately he knows it was a mistake as the man changes in appearance and runs off. The young man finally returns home and watches the news as he sees a familiar face start to show up and a terrible war brews. Years later the war has ended the man receives a postcard telling him that he can rest, the monastery has their captive back. This one was so good that they made two versions of it. One for the tv show and one for the movie. The TV show one had Billy Mummy as the child.
Anthony is a young boy who lives in a town in the middle of nothing. Generally this means a town surrounded by a desert or forest but in this case, it is literally surrounded by a great mass of nothingness.
The reason is that Anthony has the ability to make whatever he wants to happen, happen. And if the idea of a grown man with unlimited power makes you nervous, think of a small child without any of the moral or social control having the same power. It goes about as well as you can expect. Anthony generally spends his days making people do what he wants, and if they disappoint him he punishes them by killing them, transforming them, or even mentally castrating them.
The title of the story comes from the phrase that all the villagers have to say to each other to remember not to screw up and complain. I have not seen this one. Joe Paradise is a Confederate scout. He is sent to explore a small town that is a bottleneck on the part of the country his army is going to go through. The leadership expects that the Union might have put up an army in the town to delay the Confederates. Joe watches the town for a while but can see no signs of Union activity, in fact, he can find no signs of activity at all.
He rides down into the town and finds that there is a full deployment of Union soldiers right on the main street, but all them, including the horses, are laying flat on the ground. In addition so is every other person and animal in the town. He investigates and finds that they are not dead but seem to be in a very deep sleep. Before he can report back to his group a man approaches him. He claims to be a wizard and says that he cast a hex on these people so that the south can advance. In addition, he tells Joe that if he signs a pact with him he will make sure that Joe and he will together win the war for the Confederacy.
However, Joe notices that the book he is reading from has words scratched out of it with words like God replaced with vile names he can not utter. He pretends to accept and when the man leans in so that Joe can sign a contract, in the blood, of course, Joe brings his sword up and decapitates the man. He then reads the spell the man read, but with the real words. The Union army starts to wake up and soon they are in battle with the Confederates.
Joe has to spend the rest of his life knowing that he had the power to win the failed war. This is not one that I have seen. A man has built a magnificent city in the middle of Africa. It is intended to fix the overpopulation issue that earth is having with there not being enough space for everyone. The disease is a result of a curse put on the city by the local medicine man as retribution for taking their land and relocating them. The engineer is certain that Science will be the answer to the disease and meets one last time with the head of the African village to convince them to be happy with what they have been given.
The man returns to his city and sees part of it is being overtaken by the jungle. Inside his apartment he finds his wife being eaten by a lion. To Serve Man by Damon Knight https: Chances are you know the Simpson parody of this, which was based on the Twilight zone episode, which was based on this story.
Aliens come to Earth bringing peace. They offer technology to cure world needs of food, energy and medical care. The protagonist is a translator for the UN who soon finds himself out of a job as world peace no longer necessitates a reason for the UN. In the meantime, the aliens are giving humans a chance to visit the world. At the very end, the protagonist and his friend are selected to go on the ship.
Somehow a hole to the fourth dimension opens up inside the apartment of a family. During the night their daughter falls into it and can not be found. Soon the dog joins them and eventually, the dad does, however, he only goes in with the top half of his body.
Once he has the girl his friend and wife drag him out. I think it might have been more of a better story in its time in the thought process that there might be more than the three dimensions that we are used to and that they would be beyond our ability to comprehend. Crangle believes that he has some kind of power that randomly appears and then disappears. During this time he has the ability to make changes to all of anything he has power over. Ah, can't you see me? I'm looking forward to her spirit coming over to me I feel tempted to bring her over to see just what it's Like to be hanging on the other side I feel so lonely, it's a long time since I died I try to show her that she's never gonna be alone Because my spirit is imprisoned in the Twilight Zone.
You tried to take me in a slow poke draw Like the cowboy wished And you got just what you saw Well, you got what you saw Didn't you get, didn't you get, didn't you get So, don't let it freak you When, when it gets down to the bone You know it's not the Twilight Zone, it's not the Twilight Zone It's just a party phone, and honeycomb, honeycomb It's not, it's not the Twilight Zone It's just a party phone, honeycomb. It's not, it's not the Twilight Zone It's just a party phone. And honeycomb You know it's not the Twilight Zone It's, it's just a party phone, honeycomb.
You know what it is Just a party phone, party phone, honeycomb. Who I really am? I'm in a private, a private world of darkness A living sin they say that beauty's in The eye of the beholder Forced to conform since I was born And my life keeps getting colder Can you see me? I'm in a private, a private world of darkness In this stale room, fades my cocoon Seeking my conformity One by one, the layers are undone Reveal my deformity Can you see me? I'm in a private, a private world of darkness I'm in a private, a private world of darkness I'm in a private The Eye Of The Beholder.
First to the bass in to the jam Then let the music take command Back to back to another dimension Stop the force and pay some attention Music to party, music to dance The new follow-up of public demand Slick as five da la megaphone Take you down to the Twilight Zone.
Enter the clock and turn the body upside down Grab the microphone it's upon the sound You want more more you get We're 2 Unlimited in effect Check up the sound and stop this distortion When we get the fittess, here's another portion Just lay back as we take control Take you down into the Twilight Zone. Come on baby I'm gonna take you to the Twilight Zone.
As he wanders through the dark house, he accidentally steps on the doll, causing him to trip and fall down the stairs, breaking his neck. His wife runs to see what happens, and finds the doll, who delivers one last, bloodcurling line: Aliens arrive from far off with one goal: A book that they always carry with them is left behind, and immediatly analysed. The title is decoded to say "To Serve Man. As the main character is getting on one of the spaceships to take the trip, his assistant runs up and says: Eye of the Beholder: A young woman is undergoing surgery to make her face "beautiful.
For some reason, the doctors and nurses tell here that "it didn'tt work. Finally, the lady is promised a planet where she can go and live where people are "like her. Third from the Sun: A man, knowing that the world will soon be destroyed by a nuclear bomb, tries to desperatley have his family escape. They sneak aboard a spaceship, and as they are heading off, one asks where they are going. A Nice Place to Visit: A robber is shot dead by the police, and awakes in Heaven, with his guardian angel. He doesn't know why he deserves to go to Heaven, but he doesn't care. He wins at everything, and he can have anything he wants.
Finally, he becomes tired of winning, and asks his guardian angel if he can leave to go to "the other place" I think they weren't allowed to say "Hell" on TV back then.
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This is the other place! Maple Street, your typical American street, is as peaceful as ever, until some strange things start to happen: The people of Maple Street start to get worried that someone amongst themselves is an alien, and is responsible for this. As the strange things start to relate to certain people, fingers are pointed, greating a sense of paranoia and betrayal. In the end, a riot breaks loose, and there is much violence and death and chaos.
It is revelaed in the end that aliens were in charge of all the strange occurences, but to actual kill the humans, they just let themselves become scared and angry. They plan to do the same to all streets, slowing eliminating the human race. A Most Unusual Camera: A camera is found by two men and a woman that takes pictures five minutes into the future. They use it to cheat in gambling for sports. When they only have two pictures left, they start fighting over how to use them, and the two men accidentally fall out the window because of their wrestling.
The woman is glad, for she can now keep all the winnings for herself, and decides to take a photo of the dead men lying on the ground. Suddenly, a waiter comes in a robs her, takes the camera, and observes that there are actually three bodies on the ground. The woman walks over to the window, trips on a wire, and falls to her death. The waiter laughs, then looks at the photo again and realizes that there are actually four bodies. In his shock, he falls to his death. During a snowstorm, two state troopers are investigating a crash and are led to believe that it was a UFO. They follow footprints leading from the crash site to a diner, where a group of passengers from a bus to Boston are waiting for word that a bridge up ahead is safe to cross.
Though the only patrons of the roadside eatery are bus passengers, there is one more diner than there were people on the bus. There is mutual suspicion among the stranded travelers, as the passengers each try to guess which among them is the alien. When they get permission to go across the bridge, however, they all leave.
Shortly, the businessman returns to the diner and tells the cook that the bridge collapsed and the bus and police car fell in killing all aboard the bus and the policemen. As the cook wonders how the businessman survived, he also notes that his clothes are not even wet. Soon the businessman unveils his third arm and stirs his coffee with his third hand, telling the cook that he is a Martian, and revealing that Mars plans to start a colony on Earth.
A clown, a soldier, a hobo, a ballet dancer, and a bagpipe player are trapped in a cylinder. They have aboslutley no recolection of who they are or how they got there. After several failed attempts to climb out, it is revelaed that there is a bin for kids to put toys into for Christmas donations, and they are really just toys.
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A failing ventriloquist refuses to use a certain puppet, because it is alive. Nobody believes him, but his career depends on it. In the end, the puppet finds him and in a thrilling scene, the two transform and the puppet becomes a human with similiar features.