Devil's Alphabet
| "Devil's Alphabet" | |
|---|---|
| The Twilight Zone episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 22b |
| Directed by | Ben Bolt |
| Written by | Robert Hunter |
| Original air date | March 28, 1986 |
| Guest appearances | |
| Ben Cross: Frederick Hywel Bennett: Grant Christopher Carroll: Chimney Sweep Christopher Grove: Assistant Chimney Sweep Ethan Phillips: Deaver Jim Piddock: Brian Osmund Bullock: Andrew Robert Schenkkan: Eli Stuart Dowling: Creditor Wayne Alexander: Cornelius | |
"Devil's Alphabet" is the second segment of the twenty-second episode from the first season (1985–86) of the television series The New Twilight Zone.
Plot
A group of young Cambridge students in Victorian England form a group called The Devil's Alphabet Society. Upon their graduation, they make an oath to meet at the same time every year without excuse, not even death. When one member commits suicide twenty years later, the surviving members discover that they are indeed bound by their oath, as evidenced by the deceased signing his name and consuming a drink.
The remaining members die either by accident or suicide until only one member remains. He returns to their meeting place and asks the spirits that the Devil's Alphabet Society be dissolved. After some deliberation amongst the ghosts, all vote yes, which ends the pacts and frees the spirits from Purgatory.
Note
It was based on a short story "The Everlasting Club" by Arthur Gray, under the pseudonym Ingulphus. The story was first published in The Cambridge Review (October 27, 1910)
External links
- "Devil's Alphabet" at IMDb
- Template:Tv.com episode
- Postcards from the Zone episode 1.54 Devil's Alphabet
