[UA] Twilight Zone magazine

[John C]

> > I believe that Twilight Zone magazine printed the
> > original script of that
> > episode and then the final script, one issue--it was the
> > same issue with
> > Ellison's story about the ghost on the laugh track, if
> > that helps.  The
> > original script was chilling, if memory serves--the
> > Grither wasn't just a
> > monster, but Santa Claus if he'd been run through the
> > House Of Renunciation
> > and then recombinated with a knocker from faerie myth.

It was a short story first, I think.  I can't remember who wrote it, but I 
can remember how the creature was described -- never saw the episode, 
though.  And one particular line sticks in my mind:

"...and he reached out with his long, long arms and...just GRITHERS them 
in!"

John Crimmins                     john1x at hotmail.com
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my pupil years ago.  A young man not without talent, but slapdash,
and huckle-muckle in his worksmanship."
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