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Composed by Paul Glass
In TV Guide's logline description of "A Question of Fear," the writer accurately made special note of the episode's "unearthly music," although the score delivers many moments of an equally strange beauty. This tale of a mercenary soldier accepting a bet to stay overnight in a haunted house found Glass in particularly unsettling voice. His use of eerie, dissonant string figurations and percussive outbursts on piano and brass go a long way toward exposing the raw nerves just beneath the surface of this tale.
So popular was this music with Jack Laird that it was used constantly throughout the second season, and this high-profile score may be thought of as representing "the sound of Night Gallery." It was used again in "Camera Obscura," "Pickman's Model," "Tell David...," "The Funeral," "Lindemann's Catch," "The Dear Departed," "Last Rites for a Dead Druid," "Deliveries in the Rear," "I'll Never Leave You—Ever," "There Aren't Any More MacBanes," and in Serling's introductions to "Brenda," "Cool Air," and "Dead Weight."
