Beauty and the Beast

The Strange Doctor Weird. Good evening. Come in, won't you? Well, what's the matter? You seem a bit nervous. Perhaps the cemetery outside this house is of situ. But there are things far worse than cemeteries.

For instance, the feeling of being cut off from the world by an insanely jealous man. As in the story I want to tell you tonight, the story I call... Beauty and the Beast. My story begins in New England on a lonely desolate cliff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

Near the edge of the cliff, which towers 200 feet above the rocks below, a young man stands a mere shadow in the darkness of the night. time and time again, he impatiently turns to look at the huge foreboding old manor house, which is perched near the cliff's edge. Suddenly, out of the darkness, a beautiful girl appears

and runs to his south-stretched arms. Kathy, darling, why are you so late? I couldn't sleep out of the house any sooner, Alan. Jason was watching my every move. Oh, Kathy, he's twice your age. I know.

The ugliest man I've ever known. Whatever made you merrier. I don't know. After my father died, I was all alone. Jason kept after me to marry him. Something in his eyes forced me to say yes.

I was afraid to refuse. Well, you're not going on living with him. I'm going to take you away. Oh, Alan, you don't know what you're saying. I can't leave. Why not? If I were to run away, Jason would follow you and kill you.

He'd kill you the way he killed. The way he killed. Whom? Well, you remember George Davis, don't you? of course he was Jason's secretary. Well, one evening, two weeks ago, Jason found me talking to George in the library, a thing he'd forbidden me to do. And the next morning Jason told me he discharged George, that he'd already left, but then I discovered that all of George's