Born today in the barely conceivable year of 1929,
Charles Beaumont is one of the forgotten figures in horror/science fiction/fantasy. Well, not at Too Much Horror Fiction! I originally featured Beaumont
here. You can also
watch his many episodes of "The Twilight Zone" on Netflix Instant. You ever find one of his vintage paperbacks in a used bookstore,
buy it. I've got a few, but not these (
Yonder, a collection
from 1958, is especially desired):
1982 collectionNovel 1959 (Corman adapted the '62 movie, a Shatner film before "Star Trek")
1961. Grantland was a Beaumont pseudonym
1982 collection
6 comments:
He is one of the great writers. He also wrote the screenplays for Premature Burial and Masque of the Red Death, which may be the best movie Corman ever did.
Yep, Andy, you may be right about the Corman movies! If you haven't seen NIGHT OF THE EAGLE, aka BURN WITCH BURN (1964), you should; Beaumont and Richard Matheson adapted the Fritz Leiber classic CONJURE WIFE.
The only book of his I have is 'The Magic Man'. Never seen a real, live copy of 'Yonder'.
Wow, how'd I forget I have a copy of MAGIC MAN as well?!
With a name like that, you could resurrect him and put him in a Stephen King novel!
Beaumont... yeah, wasn't that the main character in THE DARK HALF?
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