The Intruder

The 1962 movie adaptation of The Intruder is a low-budget Roger Corman film about racism in a small southern town under the influence of a fast talking agitator. It seemed a pretty brave film to come out when it did during the height of the civil rights movement. I hadn’t realized until recently that......more

Everyone should read this book. Its message is just as powerful today as it was in 1959 when it was first published. A fantastic read from a great but short lived writer who wrote many of the best original TWILIGHT ZONE shows.......more

Yes, it's the Twilight Zone writer Charles Beaumont, whose biography is just as interesting as his fiction. He made a big impact in such a short life. This story about an outside agitator stirring things up in a small Southern US town after Brown vs. Board of Ed was a little dated, but I added a sta......more

The Intruder, Charles Beaumont [Putnam, 1959]. From Charles Beaumont—an author of Weird Fiction, whose work was featured extensively on the original Twilight Zone—comes a topical novel about racial unrest in a small southern town. The white citizens of Caxton, a small town in an unnamed state in the U......more

I have recently been reading the mainstream novels of Philip K. Dick for the podcast. One of the realities of his career is that he tried and failed to write out of the SF genre. It was a constant source of pain and frustration that it didn’t appear to go anywhere in his lifetime; the novels only sa......more