Execution
- Eloi Bronze Medal
- by George Clayton Johnson
- Short Story
- Fantasy, Weird Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Execution” by George Clayton Johnson, in A Collection of Scripts and Stories written for “The Twilight Zone” by George Clayton Johnson, limited edition of 100 looseleaf copies (Valcour and Krueger, 1977).
Back in the Old West, just after outlaw Jason Black is dropped from a lone tree with a rope around his neck, two scientists pull him into the 20th century. The story isn’t your typical short story; instead, it’s a treatment that Johnson presented to Rod Serling for a Twilight Zone episode that aired on 1 April 1960.
Listen to me. There is a strange world outside that door. Without us to help you, anything can happen to you. This is the twentieth century, don’t you understand?
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1800 to 1899: late 19th century
- Circa AD 1960 to 1969: just a guess
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Retrievers: The machine is only a retreiver, since when Black dies, he bounces back on his own rather than being sent back by the machine.
- Real-World Tags
- Groupings
Variants
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- “Execution” by George Clayton Johnson, in A Collection of Scripts and Stories written for “The Twilight Zone” by George Clayton Johnson, limited edition of 100 looseleaf copies (Valcour and Krueger, 1977).
Derived Works
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- “Execution” by Rod Serling, directed by David Orrick McDearmon (1 April 1960).