We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? Charles Beaumont was an American author and screenwriter. Besides publishing a considerable number of short stories, Beaumont is best known for his work on movies and television shows, especially the The Twilight Zone , in which some of his short stories were adapted into episodes, often by himself. Most of his work is still under copyright; the few short stories believed to be in the U.S. public domain are collected in