John Collier’s modern fairy tale, The Chaser, was adapted as an episode of the first season of the original The Twilight Zone. And now the story has just been narrated for Tom Elliot’s The Twilight Zone Podcast.
The Chaser
By John Collier; Read by Danny Davis
1 |MP3| – Approx. 11 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Podcaster: The Twilight Zone Podcast
Podcast: March 18, 2013
Alan, a lovelorn man, desperate for the object of his affections to return them, visits a queer chemist for a solution. First published in The New Yorker, December 28, 1940.
Podcast feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheTwilightZonePodcast
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Here is a |PDF| of the story, and here is another |PDF|.
And here’s The Twilight Zone adaptation:
The story also inspired a Tales From The Crypt story, in issue 25:
That, in turn, was adapted for the television series, using the same name:
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