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THE MAGIC MAN: AND OTHER SCIENCE-FANTASY STORIES.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett Gold Medal d1586. Paperback original. Collect eighteen stories, introduction by Ray Bradbury, afterword by Richard Matheson.
YONDER.
New York: Bantam Books, [1958]. First edition. Bantam Books A1759. Collects 15 stories, two of which had appeared in Playboy (one of the top fiction markets of the day), and one short screenplay. The author attained success quickly but was struck down in his early 30s by a mysterious illness that aged him grotesquely. His output nevertheless remains impressive. While the publisher's blurb compares him to Poe, Saki and John Collier, it seems safe at least to class him with (to mention true comparables) Fritz Leiber, Avram Davidson, Ray Bradbury and Frederic Brown.
CHARLES BEAUMONT: SELECTED STORIES.
Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of twenty-nine stories and novel extract (THE INTRUDER, chapter 10), five previously unpublished, edited by Roger Anker, seventeen with introductions by Ray Bradbury, Dennis Etchison, Richard Matheson, Harlan Ellison, and others. Winner of the 1989 Bram Stoker Award for best collection. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-27.
THE HUNGER AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1957]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. Collects seventeen stories, of which eight are printed here for the first time. Classic collection by one of the major contributors to "The Twilight Zone" TV series. Signed inscription by Beaumont on the front free endpaper: "For Bill Froug -- / Here's to softened / lines, pure exposition, / and devious dialogue! / Chuck Beaumont." Beaumont wrote for most of the episodic television shows in the early to mid 1960s, but "The Twilight Zone" was clearly his favorite, with 22 scripts. Similarly, Bill Froug was an active producer on many shows in the early '60s, but had a particularly strong connection to "The Twilight Zone," producing, by coincidence, 22 shows. The two would work together on two episodes: "Queen of the Nile" (6 March 1964) and "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" (24 January 1964). A remarkable association copy, acquiring special poignance through Beaumont's early death at age 38, just ten years after the publication of this book. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 110. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 27. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-12. King list, p. 389. Winter list, p. 268. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-27.
THE HUNGER AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1957]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. Collects seventeen stories, of which eight are printed here for the first time. Classic collection by one of the major contributors to "The Twilight Zone" TV series. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 110. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 27. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-12. King list, p. 389. Winter list, p. 268. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-27.