The Twilight Zone
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THE TWILIGHT ZONE
30/60 Minutes
Science Fiction Anthology

ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION
1959 — 1964
1985 — 1989
2002 — 2003

BROADCASTER
CBS (1959 — 1964)
CBS (1985 — 1987)
Syndicated (1988 — 1989)
UPN (2002 — 2003)

SEASONS / EPISODES
1950s: 5 Seasons / 156 Episodes
1980s: 3 Seasons / 65 Episodes
2000s: 1 Season / 22 Episodes
1 Movie (1983)
1 TV Movie (1994 / CBS)

NOTE: The 1985 and 2002 versions routinely consisted of more than one story in each installment.

DVD RELEASES
UK (Region 2 / PAL)

United States (Region 1 / NTSC)

Due to its nature as an anthology series, where the characters and situations changed on a weekly basis, books carrying the Twilight Zone name don't necessarily fall easily into a single category.

As well as collections of wholly original stories (making their connection to the television series tenuous at best) there are also a number of volumes which sprinkle in a selection of new novelisations based on television episodes, and several volumes which collect together the original stories which were adapted for the various Twilight Zone television stories.

Wherever possible the novelised episodes are indicated as such, and details of the television episode titles are noted where they differ from the titles of the original short stories on which they are based.

Also worthy of note is Twilight Zone Scripts and Stories which contains the seven short stories by George Clayton Johnson which were adapted for The Twilight Zone (three of which he did himself), and also his script to A Game of Pool.

Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone

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by Walter B Gibson
  • USA
  • Hardback
  • Grosset & Dunlap
  • 1963
Other Editions
Chilling Stories from Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone
USA / Paperback / Tempo Books / 1965
Novelised Episodes
Back There / Judgment Night
Short Stories
The Ghost of Ticonderoga
The Curse of the Seven Towers
The Avenging Ghost
Return from Oblivion
The House on the Square
Death's Masquerade
The Riddle of the Crypt
Dead Man's Chest
Back Cover Blurb — Tempo Books
OPEN THE BOOK,
read the pages and enter The Twilight Zone IF YOU DARE!
For here in the half world, reality is suspended and what has happened, what will happen and what might happen are mingled, blended and become more real than the facts of history or science. Your own imagination tells you that the occult and the inexplicable do exist. Logic says that bizarre and fantastic events such as these could not happen — but they might!
Such is the gift of Rod Serling, creator of the Twilight Zone, that he has stimulated the imaginations of millions of television viewers who have since become eager participants in his explorations into the unknown.

Now The Twilight Zone is explored again, in a collection of stories as new and fresh as tomorrow, as ancient as the great myths. The facts of history, of science, of human behaviour present themselves, but with the twist, the startling and suspenseful conclusion that makes you wonder whether there just might be a reason why man has cherished his ghost stories through the ages.

So come, enter The Twilight Zone and see for yourself that such things couldn't happen — but they might!
Notes
  • The details above are of the stories contained within the paperback edition from Tempo Books which only contained ten of the thirteen stories present in the original hardback edition.
  • Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone was also included in the Rod Serling's Twilight Zone omnibus.
Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Revisited

Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Revisited cover image
by Walter B Gibson
  • USA
  • Hardback
  • Grosset & Dunlap
  • 1964
Other Editions
USA / Paperback / Tempo Books / 1965
Novelised Episodes
The Purple Testament /The Man in the Bottle / Mirror Image
Short Stories
Two Live Ghosts
The Ghost of the Dixie Bell
The Ghost Train
Beyond the Rim
The Ghost of Jolly Roger
The Man Who Dropped By
Notes
The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories

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Edited by Martin Harry Greenberg, Richard Matheson and Charles G Waugh
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Avon Books
  • 1985
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Other Editions
USA / Hardback / Fine Communications / 1997 (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com)
Novelised Episodes
One for the Angels — Anne Serling-Sutton
The Changing of the Guard — Anne Serling-Sutton
Short Stories
Perchance to Dream — Charles Beaumont
Disappearing Act — Richard Matheson
(Episode Title: And When the Sky Was Opened)
Time Enough at Last — Lynn A Venable
What You Need — Lewis Padgett
Third from the Sun — Richard Matheson
Elegy — Charles Beaumont
Brothers Beyond the Void — Paul W Fairman
(Episode Title: People Are Alike All Over)
The Howling Man — Charles Beaumont
It's a Good Life — Jerome Bixby
The Valley Was Still — Manly Wade Wellman
The Jungle — Charles Beaumont
To Serve Man — Damon Knight
Little Girl Lost — Richard Matheson
Four O'Clock — Price Day
I Sing the Body Electric — Ray Bradbury
In His Image — Charles Beaumont
Mute — Richard Matheson
Death Ship — Richard Matheson
The Devil, You Say? — Charles Beaumont
(Episode Title: Printer's Devil)
Blind Alley — Malcolm Jameson
(Episode Title: Of Late I Think of Cliffordville)
Song for a Lady — Charles Beaumont
(Episode Title: Passage on the Lady Anne)
Steel — Richard Matheson
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet — Richard Matheson
The Old Man — Henry Slesar
(Episode Title: The Old Man in the Cave)
The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross — Henry Slesar
The Beautiful People — Charles Salvadore
(Episode Title: Number Twelve Looks Just Like You)
Long Distance Call — Richard Matheson
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge — Ambrose Bierce
Notes
  • An anthology of stories that were adapted for the original Twilight Zone series, plus two new novelisations based on Rod Serling scripted episodes.
The New Twilight Zone

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Edited by Martin H Greenberg
  • USA
  • Hardback
  • MJF Books
  • 1991
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Other Editions
New Stories from the Twilight Zone
USA / Paperback / Avon Books / 1991 (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com)
Back Cover Blurb — Avon Books
TAKE A DETOUR INTO THE BOUNDLESS DIMENSION OF THE IMAGINATION...
REALM OF WONDER, MYSTERY, ILLUSION AND TERROR...

A showcase for the very best in fantasy and suspense, Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone" made television history — bringing bold and breathtaking new worlds of wonder into the living rooms of millions of fans.
Over a quarter of a century after the last episode was aired, "THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE" was born — the long-awaited television event that brought Serling's extraordinary vision to life for a brand new generation of viewers. Now, collected for the first time, are the original stories from the critically acclaimed series — brilliant flights of the imagination that enabled directors William Friedkin, Wes Craven, Joe Dante and others to transport us far beyond our wildest dreams...and nightmares.

SUBMITTED FOR YOUR APPROVAL:
Meet a man who has an unforgettable encounter with a terrifying stranger — himself... Share a meal with the damned at a diner that serves the hungry dead... Give a ride to a young hitchhiker who travels with death... Follow Robert R McCammon, Arthur C Clarke, Roger Zelazny, Richard Matheson and many other modern masters of science fiction and dark fantasy on an astonishing odyssey that begins somewhere between shadow and light, between superstition and science — and ends deep in the shadowy realm of...

NEW STORIES FROM THE TWILIGHT ZONE
Short Stories
Shatterday — Harlan Ellison
Healer — Alan Brennert
Nightcrawlers — Robert R McCammon
Examination Day — Henry Slesar
A Message from Charity — William M Lee
Paladin of the Lost Hour — Harlan Ellison
The Burning Man — Ray Bradbury
Wong's Lost and Found Emporium — William F Wu
One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty — Harlan Ellison
I of Newton — Joe Haldeman
The Star — Arthur C Clarke
The Misfortune Cookie — Charles E Fritch
Yesterday was Monday — Theodore Sturgeon
(Episode Title: A Matter of Minutes)
To See the Invisible Man — Robert Silverberg
Dead Run — Greg Bear
Button, Button — Richard Matheson
The Everlasting Club — Arthur Gray
(Episode Title: Devil's Alphabet)
The Last Defender of Camelot — Roger Zelazny
Saucer of Loneliness — Theodore Sturgeon
Lost and Found — Phyllis Eisenstein
Influencing the Hell Out of Time and Teresa Golowitz — Parke Godwin
(Episode Title: Time and Teresa Golowitz)
Notes
  • An anthology of stories which were adapted for the 1980s Twilight Zone series.
Journeys to the Twilight Zone

Journeys to the Twilight Zone cover image
Edited by Carol Serling
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • DAW
  • 1993
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Other Editions
Cover image needed USA / Hardback / MJF Books / 1996 (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com)
Short Stories
The Field Trip — Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Goodfood — W Warren Wagar
Laying Veneer — Alan Dean Foster
I, Monster — Henry Slesar
Good Boy — Jane M Lindskold
Mists — Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Dean Wesley Smith
Another Kind of Enchanted Cottage — Hugh B Cave
On Harper's Road — William F Nolan
The Extra — Jack Dann
Inside Out — Karen Haber
Soul to Take — Vanessa Crouther
Standing Orders — Barry N Malzberg
Coming of Age — Susan Casper
Waifs and Strays — Charles DeLint
Suggestion — Rod Serling
Other Editions
USA / Hardback / MJF Books / 1997
Notes
  • An anthology of original stories, none of which were ever used as television episodes.
  • Suggestion is actually a novelisation of an episode of Night Gallery which was first published in 1972 as part of Rod Serling's Night Gallery 2.
Return to the Twilight Zone

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Edited by Carol Serling
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • DAW
  • 1994
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Other Editions
USA / Hardback / MJF Books / 1997 (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com)
Short Stories
Survival Song — Ray Russell
Night of the Living Bra — KD Wentworth
The Kaleidoscope — Don D'Ammassa
Big Roots — Pamela Sargent
The Midnight El — Sidney Taine & Robert Weinberg
Maybe Tomorrow — Barry Hoffman
The Food Court — John Maclay
The Garden — Barbara Delplace
Gordie's Pets — Hugh B Cave
Lady in the Cream-Colored Chiffon — Elizabeth Anderson & Margaret Maron
The Praying Lady — Charles L Fontenay
The Cure — Philip C Jennings
Still Waters — Barry B Longyear
Messenger — Adam-Troy Castro
The Duke of Demolition Goes to Hell — John Gregory Betancourt
Salt — PD Cacek
Always in the Dark — Charles Grant
Afternoon Ghost — Jack Dann & George Zebrowski
The Sole Survivor — Rod Serling
Other Editions
USA / Hardback / Fine Communications / 1997
Notes
  • An anthology of original stories, none of which were ever used as television episodes.
  • The Sole Survivor is actually a novelisation of an episode of Night Gallery which was first published in 1971 as part of Rod Serling's Night Gallery.
Adventures in the Twilight Zone

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Edited by Carol Serling & Martin H Greenberg
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • DAW
  • 1995
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Short Stories
The Reposessed — J Neil Schulman
Ballad of the Outer Life — Margaret Ball
Desert Passage — Randall Peterson
A Death in the Valley — Robert Sampson
The Sacrifice of Shadows — Billie Sue Mosiman
Darkened Roads — Richard Gilliam
Dead and Naked — Pamela Sargent
My Mother and I Go Shopping
The Knight of Greenwich Village — Don D'Ammassa
Peace on Earth — Wendi Lee & Terry Beatty
A Breeze from a Distant Shore — Peter Crowther
My Wiccan, Wiccan, Ways — Brad Linaweaver
Dark Secrets — Edward E Kramer
Reality — Steve Antczak
Marticora — Brian McNaughton
The Shackles of Buried Sins — Lois Tilton
Sorcerer's Mate — ME Beckett
Daddy's Girl — Kimberly Rufer-Bach
Something Shiny for Mrs Cauldwell — Fred Olen Ray
Hope as an Element of Cold, Dark Matter — Rick Wilber
Mittens and Hotfoot — Walter Vance Awsten
The House at the Edge of the World — Juleen Brantingham
Baby Girl Diamond — Adam-Troy Castro
Lindemann's Catch — Rod Serling
Notes
  • An anthology of original stories, none of which were ever used as television episodes.
  • Lindemann's Catch is actually a novelisation of an episode of Night Gallery which was first published in 1972 as part of Rod Serling's Night Gallery 2.
Omnibus Editions
Rod Serling's Twilight Zone

Rod Serling's Twilight Zone cover image
by Walter B Gibson
  • USA
  • Paperback
  • Bonanza/Crown
  • 1984
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