Philip K Dick's "Beyond the Door" (short story + short movie, fantasy, free)

Be gentle to your cuckoo clock...

See also.

1. H L Gold's "Trouble with Water": Much funnier variation of the same general idea - be gentle when dealing with water gnomes!

Fact sheet.

First published: Fantastic Universe, January 1954.
Download full text from Project Gutenberg, Manybooks, Feedbooks.
Download MP3 audio of the story, read by Gregg Margarite, from LibriVox.
Watch a 7-minutes movie adaptation of the story at YouTube (bad acting, black & white).
Rating: B.
Related: Stories of Philip K Dick.