Twilight Zone before Twilight Zone existed — fiction eats its own author alive.
A writer's fiction becomes terrifying reality, sucking him into his own novel being played out.
Acting
O'Brien's sweaty panic as fiction consumes him.
Direction
Ripley packs a feature's worth of dread into 26 minutes.
Director
Arthur Ripley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This obscure short predates Stephen King's 'Dark Half' and 'Misery' by decades, basically inventing the 'author consumed by work' subgenre.
Ripley later directed the cult noir 'The Chase' (1946) and worked with Preston Sturges — this was a rare TV outing for a theatrical director.
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