About

Charles Beaumont (1929-1967) 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 Zoneepisodes, such as "The Howling Man," "Miniature," "Printer's Devil," and "Number Twelve Looks Just Like You," but also penned the screenplays for several films, among them7 Faces of Dr. Ao, The Intruder and The Masque of the Red Death. Beaumont is also the subject of a documentary, Charles Beaumont: The Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man,by Jason V Brock.

Shortly after a 1954 U. S Supreme Court ruling declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, a stranger arrives in Caxton, a small southern town peacefully awaiting the integration of its all-white high school dam Cramer, a polite, threateningly smooth-talking young Northerner, has come to persuade this community to work against the new segregation laws.

Within days, he stirs the white residents to violence in order to play his own personal power games y the time he leaves town, mob action, riots, bombings, and attacks on integrationists had become commonplace, turning neighbor against neighbor, husband against wife, white against black But The Intruder is more than just the story of one man and the trouble he brings.

T is a fascinating portrait of a southern town in the mid-1950s, an exciting novel dramatizing the problems of sociological change, civil rights, and, ultimately, the changing face of America lso included is a new Nolan (co-author of Logan's Run), who recalls his role in the film, in which he plays a small town bigot.

Edition Details

• Limited to 200 copies, each one signed.
• Comprehensive introduction by Roger Anker.
• Insightful afterword by William F. Nolan, illustrated with Nolan’s own photographs.
• Previous hardcover and paperback edition of The Intruder, reprinted in color.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, sewn binding, rounded back, and other extras.

External Links

• The Intruder. Centipede Press page for The Intruder
• Charles Beaumont (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Charles Beaumont