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The Grave (The Twilight Zone)

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of Miller's story, openly admitting they themselves are frightened of Sykes. They bet Miller $ 20 that he is too scared to visit the grave, giving him a knife and telling him to drive it into the earth there as proof of his visit. Miller accepts the terms and departs into the cold, windy night; he reaches the grave at midnight and plants the knife as instructed, but as he attempts to leave, he is suddenly pulled back down.
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tail over the grave; after planting the knife, Miller mistook the pinned tail for Sykes' grasping hand and died of fright. However, Ione demonstrates that the wind direction that night would have blown Miller's coattail away from the grave, not over it, and then laughs mockingly at the stupefied men as Ione's cloak blows in a manner similar to that of the
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Miller says that Sykes was a liar, claiming he went to Albuquerque and found no sign that Sykes had ever been there, and also denies that he is at all frightened by Sykes' threat of vengeance from beyond the grave. After Sykes' vengeful sister Ione confronts Miller, the men say they are not convinced
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The outlaw Pinto Sykes is ambushed and killed by the men of a small town in the Old West. Some time later, gunfighter Conny Miller, who had been hired to track down Sykes, arrives in town. He goes to the saloon where the men who hired him are gathered, and is angry to learn that they had killed Sykes
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When Miller fails to return the next day, Ione and the townsmen travel to the cemetery in search of him. They find him lying dead atop Sykes' grave, the knife driven through his coattail and pinning him to the ground. One man theorizes that Miller had not buttoned his coat and that the wind blew its
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in 1959 that included a story called "The Dare", in which a group of kids sitting in front of a fire telling ghost stories dare one of the group to go to the grave of a man who was just buried earlier that day. The boy takes the dare, states he will stick a knife in the grave to prove he was there,
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Normally, the old man would be correct. This would be the end of the story. We've had the traditional shoot-out on the street and the badman will soon be dead. But some men of legend and folk tale have been known to continue having their way even after death. The outlaw and killer Pinto Sykes was
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officer in the Tsar's Army (some printings identify this officer as a captain, some as a lieutenant) with the sword he receives from the Cossack officer for the purpose, and meets a similar fate.
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published a similar story in 1941, called "The Path Through the Cemetery." The tale, set in Imperial Russia, describes a very timid man named Ivan, who responds to a similar challenge from a
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such a person, and shortly we'll see how he introduces the town and a man named Conny Miller, in particular, to the Twilight Zone.
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and even sent word of where he was, and threatened to reach up from his grave and grab Miller if the latter ever approached it.
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themselves. Moreover, on his deathbed Sykes accused Miller of being a coward, saying he had waited for Miller in
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and then proceeds to meet the same fate that night.
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Index

The Twilight Zone

Montgomery Pittman
Lee Marvin
Lee Van Cleef
James Best
Strother Martin
Stafford Repp
Elen Willard
The Mirror
It's a Good Life
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) (season 3)
List of episodes
anthology series
The Twilight Zone
CBS
Nothing in the Dark
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Grim Reaper
Lee Marvin
James Best
Strother Martin
Elen Willard
Lee Van Cleef
William Challee
Stafford Repp
Leonard Q. Ross
Cossack
Maria Leach
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