Charles Beaumont's untimely death in 1967 at age 38 cut short the brief but brilliant career of a writer now regarded as a master of modern weird fiction. The author of three extraordinary collections of short stories, the acclaimed novel "The Intruder," and scripts for cult classic horror films and the popular TV series "The Twilight Zone," Beaumont was at work on a fourth collection, "A Touch of the Creature," at the end of his life.
Ranging in tone from the eerie and unsettling "The Indian Piper" and "Time and Again" to the offbeat and humorous "Adam's Off Ox" and "The Junemoon...