Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories
Bram Stoker Award winner 1988, World Fantasy Award nominee 1989.
Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories was reprinted as The Howling Man in 1992.
Edited by Roger Anker.
Contents:
- Preface by Christopher Beaumont
- A Death in the Country
- A Point of Honor
- Appointment with Eddie
- Black Country
- Blood Brother
- Fair Lady
- Free Dirt
- Gentlemen, Be Seated
- Introduction by Roger Anker
- Introduction to "Miss Gentilbelle" by Ray Bradbury
- Introduction to "The Crooked Man" by Robert Bloch
- Introduction to Unpublished Stories by Chad Oliver
- Introduction to "A Death in the Country" by William F. Nolan
- Introduction to "Black Country" by Ray Russell
- Introduction to "Fair Lady" by George Clayton Johnson
- Introduction to "Free Dirt" by Dennis Etchison
- Introduction to "Gentlemen, Be Seated" by Frank M. Robinson
- Introduction to "Last Rites" by Richard Matheson
- Introduction to "Mourning Song" by Jerry Sohl
- Introduction to "The Devil, You Say?" by Howard Browne
- Introduction to "The Howling Man" by Harlan Ellison
- Introduction to "The Hunger" by Richard Christian Matheson
- Introduction to "The Intruder" by Roger Corman
- Introduction to "The Magic Man" by Charles E. Fritch
- Introduction to "The New People" by Saul David
- Introduction to "The Vanishing American" by John Tomerlin
- Last Rites
- Miss Gentilbelle
- Mourning Song
- Night Ride
- Perchance to Dream
- Place of Meeting
- Song for a Lady
- The Carnival
- The Crime of Willie Washington
- The Crooked Man
- The Dark Music
- The Devil, You Say?
- The Howling Man
- The Hunger
- The Intruder (Chapter 10) (Excerpt)
- The Jungle
- The Magic Man
- The Man with the Crooked Nose
- The Music of the Yellow Brass
- The New People
- The Vanishing American
- To Hell with Claude
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Charles Beaumont
Charles Beaumont was the penname of Charles Leroy Nutt, 1929–1967, he was a prolific American author of speculative fiction, including short stories in the horror and science fiction subgenres. He is remembered as a writer of classic Twilight Zone episodes, such as "The Howling Man", "Miniature", and "Printer's Devil", but also penned the screenplays for several cult horror and science fiction films, among them 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, The Intruder and The Masque of the Red Death. As best-selling novelist Dean R. Koontz has said, "[Charles Beaumont was] one of the seminal influences on writers of the fantastic and macabre."

