You unlock this door with the key of imagination.

Beyond it is another dimension, a dimension of sound, 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.

The...

...theidst... Over the past couple of episodes we've explored the origins of tonight's tale, and if those

two yawns that we've examined so far, the devil and Daniel Webster, and the devil you say,

tell us anything, it's that in fiction we have to give the devil his due.

Despicable as he may be, he sure makes for a good story.

And perhaps this is why he, along with Mr. Death, is one of the most recurring characters in the Twilight Zone.

So far we've seen him in Escape Clause,

a nice place to visit,

The Howling Man, and the Hunt.

But tonight we'll spend even more time with him

as he inhabits the form of one of the Twilight Zone's most beloved stars.

But before we meet him, let's start at the beginning.

When we meet newspaper editor Douglas Winter, lighting up a crooked cigarette that he finds in his desk drawer,

foreshadowing the crooked cigar that the devil himself will be smoking later on. But Douglas' newspaper, the Danzberg

courier, is not doing well, and Andy Praskins, a long-time employee, has just walked out because the newspaper

can't afford to pay him anymore. It seems the writing is on the wall for this particular publication

and it seems that Douglas Winter is going to step off a nearby bridge and end it all.

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