Horror History: Friday, March 11, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “A World of Difference” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 23

Businessman Arthur Curtis discovers that life as he knows it doesn’t really exist.

Horror History: Friday, March 4, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 22

Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.

Horror History: Friday, February 26, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Mirror Image” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 21

Millicent Barnes finds herself playing cat-and-mouse at a bus depot with a mysterious duplicate that seems intent on taking over her life.

Horror History: Friday, February 19, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Elegy” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 20

Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left–only all of the people seem frozen in time.

Horror History: Friday, February 12, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Purple Testament” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 19

Lt. Fitzgerald has found his own special wartime hell. Looking into the faces of his men prior to battle, he has the disquieting ability to see who is about to die.

Horror History: Friday, February 5, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Last Flight” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 18

A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud – and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!

Horror History: Friday, January 29, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Fever” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 17

Tight fisted Franklin Gibbs is not pleased when his wife wins a trip for two to Las Vegas. But things change when he falls under the spell of a slot machine that calls his name.

Horror History: Friday, January 22, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Hitch-Hiker” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 16

Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually sees the same hitch-hiker everywhere she looks.

Horror History: Friday, January 15, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “I Shot an Arrow into the Air” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 15

Three astronauts crash on what they believe to be an asteroid. Unfortunately they have only limited water supplies to sustain them.

Horror History: Friday, January 8, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Third From the Sun” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 14

With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.

Horror History: Friday, January 1, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Four of Us are Dying” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 13

A man who can change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.

Horror History: Friday, December 25, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “What You Need” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 12

A two-bit thug thinks he’s found the key to a better life in an old sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what they need the most.

Horror History: Wednesday, December 16, 1959: The Mummy was released in theaters

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Three English archaeologists find the tomb of an Egyptian high priestess buried nearly four thousand years before. They discover a guard who had been buried alive with her.

Horror History: Friday, December 11, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “And When the Sky Was Opened” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 11

Three astronauts have returned from this first space flight. Major Gart is hospitalized with a broken leg. The other two, Colonels Harrington and Forbes head for a bar. Harrington gets a strange feeling…

Horror History: Friday, December 4, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Judgment Night” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 10

In 1942, a German wonders why he’s on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there, and an overwhelming sense of impending doom.

Horror History: Friday, November 27, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Perchance to Dream” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 9

A man is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die.

Horror History: Friday, November 20, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Time Enough at Last” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 8

A bank teller, Henry Bemis, longs for time alone to read books. He gets his wish…

Horror History: Friday, November 13, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Lonely” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 7

Corry is stranded on an asteroid after being convicted of a crime. He receives as a present a robot who looks, sounds, and acts like a real woman.

Horror History: Friday, November 6, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Escape Clause” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 6

A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.

Horror History: Friday, October 30, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Walking Distance” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 5

Martin Sloan, driving through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, Homewood. He finds things exactly as they were when he was a child. He soon realizes he’s gone back in time.

Horror History: Friday, October 23, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 4

An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.

Horror History: Friday, October 16, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 3

A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.

Horror History: Friday, October 9, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “One for the Angels” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 2

A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.

Horror History: Friday, October 2, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Where is Everybody?” premiered

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Season 1 Episode 1

Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he’s being watched…

Horror History: Tuesday, February 17, 1959: House on Haunted Hill was released in theaters

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Vincent Price stars as a very wealthy man who gives a haunted house party, offering to give each of his guests $10,000 — if they can survive the night.

Horror History: Wednesday, September 10, 1958: The Blob was released in theaters

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A cult classic of gooey greatness, The Blob follows the havoc wreaked on a small town by an outer-space monster with neither soul nor vertebrae, with Steve McQueen playing the rebel teen who tries to warn the residents about the jellylike invader. Strong performances and ingenious special effects help The Blob transcend the schlock sci-fi and youth delinquency genres from which it originates.

Horror History: Thursday, May 8, 1958: Horror Of Dracula was released in theaters

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The first Hammer Dracula film in which, the infamous vampire (Christopher Lee, Star Wars) is given a new, elegant and ruthless persona as he descends upon England.

Horror History: Sunday, May 26, 1957: The Deadly Mantis was released in theaters

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What’s worse than a horde of locusts? A gigantic man-eating praying mantis, released from a million years of deep, frozen sleep and ready to claw its way to world domination!

This menacing insect kills everything in its path while scientists and military men work feverishly to stop it. Craig Stevens (Abbott And Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde) stars as the commander in charge of putting an end to this beastly insect with William Hopper (20 Million Miles To Earth) as the paleontologist and Alix Talton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) as his beautiful assistant, a photojournalist, assigned to help in this epic battle between man and mantis!

Horror History: Thursday, May 2, 1957: The Curse of Frankenstein was released in theaters

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The Frankenstein epic finds Baron Victor Frankenstein in jail, attempting to convince his jailers that a monster he created was responsible for the crimes for which he is accused.

Horror History: Thursday, August 16, 1956: Bela Lugosi passed away

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Rest In Peace, Mr. Lugosi.