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dabbe
Printer's Devil | Paul Bajoria
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Paper's floundering.
Sold your soul to the devil ...
now first with the scoop.

One of my favorite episodes from THE TWILIGHT ZONE. I loved teaching the motif of “selling your soul to the devil“ to my high school students. 👺

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🐝👍🏼🌃🐝💝. 1w
dabbe @AnnCrystal 💛🐝🖤 1w
JenlovesJT47 Is that the name of the episode? I‘m gonna look it up later! Very cool 💛🖤💛 1w
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TheSpineView Excellent! 💛🐝💛 1w
dabbe @JenlovesJT47 Yes, it is! And Burgess Meredith plays the devil! It's a longer TZ episode, and it's fantastic! 😍 1w
dabbe @TheSpineView TY! 💛🐝🖤 1w
AmyG This was a great episode. 1w
JenlovesJT47 Awesome, going to check it out ASAP! 1w
dabbe @AmyG 🎯🩵🎯 My students loved it! 1w
DebinHawaii Wonderful! 🖤🐝🖤 It‘s been ages since I‘ve seen this one! 1w
Eggs Perfection 💛🐝🖤 1w
dabbe @DebinHawaii It's so good! 💛🐝🖤 1w
dabbe @Eggs 💛🐝🖤 1w
TheBookHippie Oooooo!!! 1w
dabbe @TheBookHippie IKR? 😱 1w
Kristy_K Love! 💛💛 6d
bellabella 👏 👍 👌 6d
lil1inblue LOVE Twilight Zone. This is great! 😍 6d
dabbe @lil1inblue TY! 💛🐝🖤 5d
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vivastory
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The past couple of months I have been making my way through the 5 original seasons of The Twilight Zone & I finished this week. It's been wonderful, mind expanding & at times a little tedious (see season 4). My #tuesdaytunes selection is the theme song, which for me is one of the best TV theme songs of all-time. This would not simply work with Bernard Hermann's eerie composition only , it really needs Rod Serling's succinct narrative (CONT)

vivastory @tiedyedude
This was one of the most narrative & interesting shows at the time (w/ the exception of Hiitchcock Presents) 2 of the 3 prestige writers for the series have volumes that remain in print in Penguin Classics: Matheson & Beaumont
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AmyG I grew up watching this. Rod Serling was truly ahead of his time. 1mo
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sarahbarnes We used to watch this at sleepovers when I was growing up. So eerie. 1mo
Lesliereadsalot I just played it and it still gives me chills! 1mo
Deblovestoread Not sure why but an episode that featured “kick the can” really imprinted on my brain. I need to watch and see if I can see why. 1mo
dabbe Have you listened to the version by The Manhattan Transfer? It‘s incredible! 🤩 1mo
Suet624 I still have memories of watching that show. 1mo
Reggie My favorite episode is Jess Belle. The twilight zone for me was 4th of July marathons that we watched after a day of bbqing at the park and watching fireworks. Always creepy. 1mo
vivastory @Reggie That was a good one. Overall I didn't care for season 4 as I didn't think that the hr long format worked, but there were exceptions like JB, Miniature, New Exhibit, Loved the TZ marathons. I had one on Easter lol after brunch 1mo
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My favorite Twilight Zone episode. “My name is Talking Tina. And I don't think I like you.“ 😱

shortsarahrose This is my mom‘s favorite episode, too! Her name just happens to be Tina 😆 My favorite episode is “To Serve Man.” 2mo
Leftcoastzen 😱 2mo
dabbe @shortsarahrose How cool is that? 🤩 Ooh, that's a SCARY one, too! I need to do a Twilight marathon! 🤣 2mo
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dabbe @Leftcoastzen IKR? One of my favorite units I ever taught my juniors involved THE TWILIGHT ZONE. They LOVED this episode! 🤩 2mo
AnnCrystal 📺👏🏼🤩 Brilliant episode 💝💝💝. (edited) 2mo
AmyG This was so good. They don‘t make shows like this anymore. 2mo
dabbe @AnnCrystal YES! 🩵💙🩵 2mo
dabbe @AmyG No, they don't. We need to figure out how to do a marathon via Litsy! 🤩 2mo
Ruthiella Also one of my favorites. 😱 2mo
vivastory I've been making my way through the entire series and am a bit sad because I've almost reached the end 2mo
TheLudicReader There was a Twilight Zone episode where the sun exploded and as a kid I remember being terrified! 2mo
Eggs Some were so disturbing to me as a kid! 2mo
AmyG There used to be a New Years eve marathon…but not sure if there still is. 2mo
TheBookgeekFrau Damn that Talky Tina 😱 1mo
dabbe @Ruthiella I wonder if there would be a Chucky without Tina! 😱 1mo
dabbe @vivastory That just means you need to start over! Though I know it's not the same the second time around, but still! 😍 1mo
dabbe @TheLudicReader I wonder if that one was “The Midnight Sun.“ 🤔 1mo
dabbe @Eggs 🎯! 1mo
dabbe @AmyG That's right! On the SyFy network! We'll have to be on the lookout this New Year's weekend! 1mo
dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau IKR? 😱 1mo
vivastory @dabbe After I finish, I plan on my watch through of Hitchcock Presents! 1mo
IMASLOWREADER one of my favorites but also creeps me out everytime 1mo
dabbe @vivastory Ooh, I've never done that either! Where can you stream those? (edited) 1mo
dabbe @IMASLOWREADER Me, too! I find it scarier than the Chucky movies! I just laughed through those, blood and all! 🤣 1mo
dabbe @IMASLOWREADER Me, too! I find it scarier than the Chucky movies! I just laughed through those, blood and all! 🤣 1mo
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SmithTheTeacher
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An autobiographical story of Rod Serling‘s life and career as a writer which coincided with the growth of television. A truly fascinating tale with a nice Twilight Zone twist at the end. Definitely a read for writers and those looking for something different from the world of graphic novels.

Story 4.5 / 5
Art 3.5 / 5
Overall 8 / 10 - A interesting, compelling biography.

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booklover3258
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Pickpick

My review of this book can be found on my YouTube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/9i17-aaRodc

Enjoy!

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Leftcoastzen
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Checking out the Jordan Peele version.

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IamIamIam
Twilight Zone Encyclopedia | Steven Jay Rubin
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🎶 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎶

The Twilight Zone marathon has always been one of my favorite TV events! So many phenomenal stories by such talented authors, Rod Serling's narration... it always feels like home!!! I typically watch with these two reference guides, too. Totally normal TV watching, right? 👌😏

vivastory Have you read this 2y
IamIamIam @vivastory Yes!!! It was so well written!! I loved it and told my husband he needs to read it too! 🥰🥰 2y
vivastory I found it very informative. I esp loved the info about his friendship with Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz & how they helped him get started. I agree about the roster of talent on TZ. I have the Penguin collection of Beaumont's stories & am looking forward to reading it & I've had my eye on their volume of Matheson stories that was pub a couple of yrs ago 2y
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IamIamIam @vivastory I read Perchance to Dream last year and was really blown away! It was easier to get Matheson's stories but I always liked Beaumont's episodes better!!! Rod Serling was so ahead of his time and so determined to get his message across. 😁 2y
vivastory This isn't related to Matheson or Beaumont, but on the topic of TZ, I recently realized that the mother in the Talky Tina episode is name Annabelle...which seems to be an odd coincidence for the recent movie even though that was based on a story that was supposedly told to the Warrens 2y
IamIamIam @vivastory Oh, that's interesting!!! I wonder when the Warrens investigated that... had to be the 70s, right?? My kids love that episode, by the way, LOL... 2y
vivastory Who, hahaha...so I just read the wikipedia page for Annabelle (the doll) & came across this:
Texas State University assistant professor of religious studies Joseph Laycock says most skeptics have dismissed the Warrens' museum as “full of off-the-shelf Halloween junk, dolls and toys, books you could buy at any bookstore“. Laycock calls the Annabelle legend an “interesting case study in the relationship between pop culture and paranormal folklore“..
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vivastory and speculates that the demonic doll trope popularized by films such as Child's Play, Dolly Dearest, and The Conjuring likely emerged from early legends surrounding Robert the Doll, as well as from a Twilight Zone episode released five years prior to the Warrens' story, entitled “Living Doll“, in which the character of the mother is named Annabelle. Laycock suggests that “the idea of demonically possessed dolls allows modern demonologists to find 2y
vivastory supernatural evil in the most banal and domestic of places.“
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IamIamIam @vivastory LMAO, that's great!!! I've heard they're pretty sensational but you gotta give the people what they want!!! I do love the lore surrounding Robert the Doll and I think the Warren's were great business folk! I love that you put Living Doll and Annabelle together!!! 👏👏👏 You're on my team at a murder mystery party! 🤣 2y
vivastory 😂 😂 They were good business people & the stories, tales & movies are still very entertaining. The midnight screening of The Conjuring remains one of my favorite moviegoing experiences to this day. 2y
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spaghedyy
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Published by tempo books at the price of 60 cents, Rod Serling‘s chilling stories from the twilight zone vol 189 is just like the show. The twilight zone books are very fun to delve into when you feel like reading something short and spooky. These books never disappoint.

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vivastory
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I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would! I was reminded of Twilight Zone trivia that I had forgotten & learned new facts (ie Serling is a co-writer for the '68 Planet of the Apes). I was thoroughly relieved to see the TZ writers, esp Matheson & Beaumont, receive due credit. This gn presents Serling as a man of integrity at odds with commercial interests & tv executives. I'm not sure how accurate this portrayal is, but it doesn't👇

vivastory seem to be a stretch of the imagination. It seems that the real difficulty was that Serling was one of the early champions of a once unusual format, now common. That of the anthology series. That he made it one of the most iconic speaks volumes Early in the pandemic I had a plan to watch TZ from beginning to end on Netflix. I made it through most of season 1 & it now appears that it has been removed. This is a project definitely worth finishing. 4y
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