You unlock this door with the key of imagination.

Beyond it is another dimension, a dimension of sound, and a dimension of sight,

a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance of things and ideas.

You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.

Occasionally here on the Twilight Zone podcast, when you start to dig into one of the episodes,

you really start to go down the rabbit hole and end up with more than you bargain for.

Now, in this case, that rabbit hole is not particularly deep, but there are some things worth examining

because we're due to take a look at the episode Printer's Devil, written by Charles Beaumont and starring Burgess Meredith.

Now that is based on a short story also written by Charles Beaumont called The Devil You Say,

which differs in several ways to the episode that I ended up writing for The Twilight Zone,

and we will take a look at those differences.

But if we take that journey from The devil you say to printer's devil,

there is actually one more stop at the beginning of that journey.

Because there's a line in the devil you say that links here

to the American short story, The Devil and Daniel Webster, by Stephen Vincent Benet.

Now I did consider reading that story for you, but it is a very American story.

And if a piece is set in America, but just as well might be anywhere, then I will read

something like that.

But if it's pretty tied into the fabric of the country,

then it just doesn't feel right to read it in a British accent or even worse, do a bad American accent.

So instead, I'm going to play you a radio adaptation of The Devil and Daniel Webster.

Now, some old radio plays hold up remarkably well in terms of audio quality,

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