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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, white against black - and destroy them all.

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 collection, contains some of his best.

Chris Adams has been framed for the murder of SteffanyFontaine. While on his way to prison, there is a spectacular train crash inwhich 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.

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.

In this episode, A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's spirit, who vows to seek revenge against his killer.

An old man with "magical" powers is the apple of a small girl's eye. When she discovers two mysterious men are out to find him, she does what she can to help.

David Gurney wakes up to another ordinary day. Except today, nobody knows who he is.

A young, handsome columnist is startled to learn that famous movie star Pamela Morris is just as lovely and young looking today as when she starred in the film Queen of the Nile, made decades ago. Intrigued, he investigates - and by doing so, learns a terrifying secret.

A reporter comes upon a peaceful village that guards the secret of creating and obliterating matter. Once he learns the secret, it takes another miracle to release him from the responsibility of the knowledge.

Three astronauts land on a remote asteroid where everyone is frozen in place in the midst of their activities. The only one that moves reveals himself as the caretaker who explains that they are in an exclusive cemetery where the deads' greatest wishes can come true.

Experience one of television’s greatest science-fiction series, The Twilight Zone - fully dramatized for audio. In this episode, Talky Tina, the doll that does everything, is a lifelike creation of plastic and springs, with a painted smile. To Erich Streator, she is a most unwelcome addition to his household. But without her, he'd never enter the Twilight Zone....

A father forbids a history professor from marrying his daughter when he discovers that the captivating lecturer is actually an immortal who has lived for thousands of years.

A prospector, threatened with death by a native conjuror for violating African land, feels himself stalked in the late night deserted streets of Manhattan by giant jungle beasts.

During a walking trip of Central Europe following World War II, a man loses his way and winds up in a monastery where the monks believe they have imprisoned the Devil himself!

After being shot to death by a policeman, smalltime hood Rocky Valentine encounters Pip, an amiable white-haired guide, who gives Rocky everything he has ever wished for.

An old radio is taking bitter bachelor Ed Lindsay back to a happier time before what he considers worthless tripe on television when he starts picking up radio programs from the 1930s and 1940s.

"La Belle et la Bête" : Belle, pour sauver son père de la menace de la Bête, accepte de quitter sa famille en devenant prisonnière du monstre. "Le petit Poucet" : Le petit Poucet et ses frères, abandonnés par leurs parents en plein forêt, devront ruser pour échapper à l'Ogre, amateur de chair fraîche. "Cendrillon" : La pauvre Cendrillon esclave de sa belle-mère et de ses demi-soeurs ne peut se rendre au bal donné par le Prince, c'est sans compter sur sa Marraine, la fée.

Everyone loves a Princess story! This collection of ten classic fairy tales is sure to please any Princess, big or small. Includes Thumbelina, The Princess and the Frog, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, The Princess and the Pea, The Little Mermaid, Rapunzel, The Wild Swans, Snow White and Rose Red, and Sleeping Beauty.