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Miss
Marsha White is running an errand to buy her mother a gold thimble that
she saw advertised in the local paper. The item is on sale at Brimble's
Department Store, which happens to reside in the Twilight Zone. Marsha
hops in the elevator, and the elevator man takes her to the eighteenth
floor. When she arrives on the floor, it looks deserted until Marsha
discovers a saleswoman selling just what she wanted. In fact, she only
has one thing: a gold thimble.
Marsha buys the thimble for $25.00 with cash and gets back into the elevator. When she goes to show the
thimble to the elevator man, she notices that it is both dented and scratched. He drops
Marsha off on the third floor so she can go to the Complaints
Department. When she informs the store manager, Mr. Sloan, that the
elevator man took her to the eighteenth floor, Mr. Sloan informs her
that they don't have an elevator man and that the store doesn't have an
eighteenth floor. To top it off, the saleswoman never gave Marsha a
receipt for the thimble and since she paid cash, there is no record of
the transaction.
Marsha turns and thinks that she sees the saleswoman
who sold her the thimble, but is shocked to find that the saleswoman is
actually a mannequin. This causes Marsha to faint, and when she awakens,
she finds herself in the store after hours and everybody has left . . .
or so she thinks. As Marsha walks around, she keeps hearing her name
called out and starts to become anxious. All of the mannequins seem to
be watching her as she runs for sanctuary in the elevator. But when the
elevator stops at the eighteenth floor again, Marsha knows that things
are about to change.
The
After Hours is a TV Tie In
Graphic Novel written for the television series by Rod Serling. This story
originally aired on television on June 10, 1960 as Episode 34 in Season One of
The Twilight Zone. The script has been adapted
by Mark Kneece and illustrated by Rebekah Isaacs. This story is intended
for Young Readers ages 12 and up.
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