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Post by carolinec on Aug 10, 2009 11:13:54 GMT
Perhaps the thought of 50-something successful individuals getting bored and turning to increasingly decadent thrills is something that worries me You should see me and some of my friends! (only kidding ) I have The Magic Man but haven't got around to reading it yet. Must try to bump it further up my "to read" pile. I adore the Beaumont/Matheson/Serling tales in The Twilight Zone.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 10, 2009 14:24:11 GMT
The New People - this really unsettled me for some reason. Perhaps the thought of 50-something successful individuals getting bored and turning to increasingly decadent thrills is something that worries me Those are the very reasons why I rate The New People above his other straight horror stories (of which there don't seem to be many: the way I remember it, much of his work is a mash-up of fantasy/ sci-fi/ 'what if...?' which, of course, made him ideal for Twilight Zone). Mary-Rose Hayes developed the idea for her thoroughly unpleasant and highly recommended The Neighbours. Free Dirt: Mr. Aorta, petty thief, swindler, sponger and glutton, grows his crops in soil removed from the local cemetery. A plant in the shape of a human hand sees to it that he receives supernatural comeuppance. His body is found, bloated and hideous, stuffed to the gills with the contaminated earth.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Aug 10, 2009 19:51:46 GMT
Btw I remember The New People was one of the episodes of Hammer's late 60s TV series Journey To the Unknown, which I've never seen (nor heard its apparently legendary whistling theme tune). A quick look at the cast list makes it sound a bit of a winner though: Patrick Allen, Adrienne Corri, Melissa Stribling, Damien Thomas, Milo O'Shea.
Anyone know if it was any good?
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Post by killercrab on Aug 10, 2009 21:46:10 GMT
I thought it one of the better episodes in the series. Patrick Allen is brilliant.
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