Henry Slesar
Henry Slesar was an American author and playwright. He is famous for his use of irony and twist endings. After reading Slesar's "M Is for the Many" in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock bought it for adaptation and they began many successful collaborations. Slesar wrote hundreds of scripts for television series and soap operas, leading TV Guide to call him "the writer with the largest audience in America."
The Stuff
A paralyzed man escapes his reality through a mind-altering drug, achieving greatness in a manufactured dream world until the specter of mortality shatters his illusion.
By Henry Slesar
The Success Machine
In a world ruled by a firing-machine, one man must confront the chilling reality that his own job might be next on the chopping block.
By Henry Slesar
Space brat
When aliens plot to conquer Earth, they discover their greatest weapon is disguised as the most innocent thing imaginable: a human baby.
By Henry Slesar
Heart
A wealthy man's frantic attempt to cheat death by escaping to Mars reveals that money can't buy everything, especially a new heart filled with human connection.
By Henry Slesar
My robot
Amidst a father's secretive robot project, a boy's memories of affection for his childhood robot highlight the complexities of family struggles and the loss of innocence.
By Henry Slesar
My Father, the Cat
A man faces the challenge of introducing his fiancée to his father, a talking cat, leading to a bizarre and humorous clash of worlds.
By Henry Slesar
A Message From Our Sponsor
In a world sharing their workplaces with Martians, human workers must confront their own decreasing value when an apathetic manager finds himself outperformed by his Martian counterpart.
By Henry Slesar
Dream Town
A stranded ad man finds himself trapped in a town obsessed with a sinister dream world, where the line between fantasy and reality vanishes with terrifying consequences.
By Henry Slesar
Brainchild
A man suddenly finds himself trapped in the body of a child, and embarks on a perilous journey to reclaim his former life and confront the enigmatic boy genius behind the strange transformation.
By Henry Slesar
Beside the golden door
In a future haunted by Earth's past, humanity's prejudices resurface as they face the arrival of alien refugees, mirroring the catastrophic events of a lost civilization and threatening to repeat history's mistakes.
By Henry Slesar
The show must go on
In a chilling vision of the future, a man fights for his life on live television as a twisted network seeks ever-greater thrills.
By Henry Slesar
The Delegate from Venus
When a robot from Venus arrives bearing a message of peace or destruction, a journalist must decide whether to reveal the shocking truth behind the alien's arrival.
By Henry Slesar
Reluctant Genius
** Witness as celestial observers debate the future of humankind and secretly assist in unlocking the hidden potential of a humble man.
By Henry Slesar
Beauty contest?
In a futuristic beauty contest, the prize is more than a crown—it's a one-way ticket to Mars and a chance at interstellar love.
By Henry Slesar
A kiss for the conqueror
In a war-torn future, a soldier's dark infatuation with a conquered woman triggers a chain of events that reveals the disturbing realities of power and obsession.
By Henry Slesar
Mr. Loneliness
Stranded on a faraway outpost, a man's desperate fight against loneliness reveals the crushing weight of isolation when human contact becomes a vital necessity for survival.
By Henry Slesar
Get out of our skies!
A disgraced publicist must choose between saving his career working for a strange company who want to stop space exploration and exposing the truth about an alien race's sinister plans for Mars.
By Henry Slesar