The story I read tonight, “Long Distance Call” is about an old, bedridden woman (Miss Elva) who starts getting phone calls in the middle of the night from a weak sounding man. She eventually discovers that her phone line had fallen off the pole and landed on a grave in a cemetery. The grave of a man she was overbearing and bullied when he was alive.
The Twilight Zone episode that took that title, “Long Distance Call” forcing the adaption of this story I read tonight, to be titled “Night Call”, is about a young boy (played by actor Billy Mumy on the episode) who had been given a toy telephone by his beloved grandmother, suddenly getting phone calls from her on it, after she dies.
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