Charles Beaumont (January 2, 1929 – February 21, 1967) was a prolific
American author of
speculative fiction, including
short stories in the
horror and
science fiction subgenres. He 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." Beaumont is also the subject of a documentary,
Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man] by
Jason V Brock.