The Carnival & Other Stories by Charles Beaumont - hardcvr

Hardcover format.  Limited edition of 1250 copies.  384 pages of wild and darkly imaginative fiction by this stellar author. Dust jacket illustration by Matt Mahurin Introduction by David J. Schow Charles Beaumont was, in the words of Ray Bradbury, “a pomegranate writer”: someone whose imagination burst with such creative seeds that it yielded a garden of rich and diverse work. The Carnival and Other Stories is a testament to the flowering of Beaumont’s unique talents. Its twenty-six stories run the full gamut of his literary legacy, from his first professional sale, “The Devil, You Say”—later an episode of The Twilight Zone, the series for which he was the second most prolific writer after Rod Serling—to “Beast of the Glacier,” receiving its first publication here. The variety of themes and approaches that Beaumont tackled is on full display in this collection, from the ruminative science fiction of “Elegy” (another Twilight Zone adaptation) to the muted horror of “Mourning Song,” a