num_pages: 550
description: Collected here are thirty of the most famous, chilling, weird, shocking stories every published--stories that became the episodes of one of the most unusual shows in television history, The Twilight Zone. Here are some of the characters:*an old salesman who has to make one last pitch--to Death*a psychiatric patient who stays awake until his dreams merge with reality*a struggling, desperate writer whose life is literally disappearing piece by piece*a snoopy reporter who discovers a mysterious shop that sells "what you need"*an airline passenger who sees a demonic creature riding his plane's wing, 20,000 feet up--a creature invisible to everyone else.IncludesRay Bradbury's "I Sing the Body Electric"Damon Knight's "To Serve Man"Richard Matheson's "Death Ship"Charles Beaumont's "The Howling Man"Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"and many other timeless talesStrange minds. Strange times and places. Strange people. All of them seem normal at first, but are quickly seen to belong in a world very much like our own, only different--a world know to generations of Americans as The Twilight Zone.
language: English
title: The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories
titlecomplete: The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories
genres: Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Own, Fiction, Horror, Anthologies, Short Stories, Fantasy, Short Story Collection, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 828
publisher: MJF Books, a division of Fine Communications