The Beautiful People by Charles Beaumont, Science Fiction, Adventure

Mary looked at the moving wall. It was a film of a terrible, terrible disaster.

"Does it have to be on, Mother?"

"Well, nobody seems to be watching. I don't think the doctor would mind if I switched it off."

Mrs. Cuberle rose from the couch and walked to the wall. She depressed a little button and the life went from the wall, flickering and glowing.

Mary opened her eyes.

"Honestly," Mrs. Cuberle said to a woman sitting beside her, "you'd think they'd try to get something else. We might as well go to the museum and watch the first landing on Mars. The Mayoraka Disaster -- really!"

Author: Charles Beaumont
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: 09/01/2011
Pages: 30
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d
ISBN: 9781463894993

About the Author
Beaumont, Charles: - "Charles Beaumont (1929 - 1967) was an American author of speculative fiction, including short stories in the horror and science fiction subgenres. Beaumont is remembered as a writer of classic Twilight Zone episodes, 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 them 7 Faces of Dr. Lao, The Intruder and The Masque of the Red Death. Novelist Dean R. Koontz has said, "Charles Beaumont was one of the seminal influences on writers of the fantastic and macabre.""