With Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone reboot arriving, read the stories that inspired some of the show's greatest episodes, including "The Howling Man"! The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zone writer, with a foreword by Ray Bradbury and an afterword by William Shatner It is only natural that Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone—for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont’s finest stories, including seven that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes. Beaumont dreamed up fantasies so vast and varied they burst through the walls of whatever box might contain them. Supernatural, horror, noir, science fiction, fantasy, pulp, and more: all were equally at home in his wondrous mind. These are stories where lions stalk the plains, classic cars rove the streets, and spacecraft hover just overhead. Here roam musicians, magicians, vampires, monsters, toreros, extraterrestrials, androids, and perhaps even the Devil himself. With dizzying feats of master storytelling and joyously eccentric humor, Beaumont transformed his nightmares and reveries into impeccably crafted stories that leave themselves indelibly stamped upon the walls of the mind. In Beaumont’s hands, nothing is impossible: it all seems plausible, even likely. "[Beaumont’s] imagination, as Perchance to Dream amply shows, was more than most writers enjoy in the longest of lifetimes." -NPR For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories

Literature & Fiction

Beaumont, Charles

Genre Fiction

Penguin Classics

Set in the late 1970's during the closing stages of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia's long and bitter Bush War, this terrifyingly vivid, true-to-life account paints an unforgettable picture of life and death on a remote African outpost, deep in the arid heart of the terrorist-infested bushveld. This extraordinarily brutal yet, ultimately, heart-warming real-life drama lays bare the unrelenting horror and constant danger that all those who lived there faced in this chilling cat-and-mouse conflict, the tragic consequences of which still resonate to this day.

A Place Called Charlie Tango

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Harvest Road Books

Night Ride and Other Journeys

Short Stories & Anthologies

Bantam]

First printing. Introduction by Ray Bradbury.

Best of Beaumont

The People of the Crater

Science Fiction & Fantasy

NORTON, ANDRE

Austin, Neil

Science Fiction

Anson Street Press

Dictionnaire Généalogique Des Familles De Charlesbourg: Depuis La Fondation De La Paroisse Jusqu'à Nos Jours (French Edition)

Gosselin, David

Reference

Nabu Press

Between light and shadow, science and superstition, fear and knowledge is a dimension of imagination. An area we call the Twilight Zone.\nAdapted by Anne Washburn (Mr Burns) and directed by Olivier Award-winner Richard Jones, this world premiere production of the acclaimed CBS Television Series The Twilight Zone lands on stage for the first time in its history. Or its present. Or its future.\nStage magic and fantasy unite as the ordinary becomes extraordinary.

The Twilight Zone (Oberon Modern Plays)

SERLING, ROD

MATHESON, RICHARD

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Drama

A classic "wrong man" suspense novel, Run from the Hunter is a fast-paced, tightly plotted thriller about a man convicted of a crime he did not commit.Chris Adams has been framed for the murder of Steffany Fontaine. While on his way to prison, there is a spectacular train crash in which he escapes, giving him the opportunity to set out to prove his innocence. But everywhere he turns--every street, every alley--the real killers lie in wait.

Run from the Hunter Lib/E

Tomerlin, John

United States

Skyboat Media

A fascinating portrait of mid-1950s America by the iconic Charles BeaumontHe was a leader of men, but he was evil. He was a stranger, but he brought lust and love, rape and hate to this quiet southern town. He was ... the intruder.It was a sleepy southern town with nice folks and good schools. Then the intruder arrived from the North. With him came trouble, fear, and hate so vicious it could turn neighbor against neighbor, child against child, white against black--and destroy them all.

The Intruder Lib/E

The Beautiful People

Fantasy

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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