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🗓️ 2 April 2015
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | The |
0:07.0 | The If I look up at my bookshelf next to where I'm sitting here, speaking to you recording this show, there is several shelves of books devoted to the Twilight Zone. |
0:43.9 | They were partially the thing that prompted me to start the podcast in the first place, |
0:51.8 | but it was also the podcast that has made me become even more prolific in my collecting of Twilight Zone books. |
0:55.4 | Every now and again, I will just punch into eBay or Amazon Twilight Zone book and see what comes up and sometimes there will be something |
1:01.9 | new sometimes it will be something that was released a few decades ago that |
1:07.5 | someone's put on eBay and it's a hole in my collection so more often than |
1:12.3 | not I will buy that book and add it to the library. Now one such search a couple of weeks |
1:17.2 | ago on eBay brought up a book called Twilight Zone Curse of the Stars resigned to death by |
1:24.9 | Wayne Rowland Melton. Now I'll just read out the back cover, the thing |
1:31.0 | that's there to entice you into buying this book. And it says finally revealed here for the first |
1:37.3 | time in this initial volume of a multi-part book set, the world learns riveting and shocking |
1:43.7 | details that virtually every star |
1:47.0 | from the iconic Twilight Zone TV series has been cursed, both the living and the dead. |
1:53.0 | A former editor on loan to USA Today, investigative journalist, author and publisher, |
1:59.0 | Wayne Roland Melton spent seven years of exhaustive research to uncover the truth. |
2:04.6 | Why did virtually all Twilight's own actors suffer miserable fates even well after the classic television series ended its five-year 156 episode run from 1959 to 1964. |
2:19.6 | Why did many of them become murderers, commit suicides, succumb to inexplicable drug overdoses, |
2:25.9 | dying tragic accidents, and even succumb to inexplicable mental illness? |
2:31.2 | Needless to say, the never-before-told revelations found herein have halted any plans |
2:36.5 | for possible future Twilight Zone movies or TV programs. Virtually all A-list actors refused to |
2:44.4 | enter such projects who could blame them. Why risk suffering fate similar to what many |
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