New Twilight Zone
Here's one anthology that lives up to its subtitle:21 Tales by the Greatest Sci-Fi and Dark Fantasy Writers of Our Time. This is also an important theme anthology, collecting all the original stories later adapted into episodes of the 1980s revival television seriesThe Twilight Zone. (Greenberg also coedited the equally fine anthologyThe Twilight Zone: The Original Stories, which collects all the stories adapted for the series' original run in the early 1960s.) Besides great stories by such masters asRichard Matheson,Harlan Ellison,Robert R. McCammon,Arthur C. Clarke,Ray Bradbury, andRoger Zelazny, pop culture historians will appreciate the introduction by Alan Brennert, which details the rise--and rapid fall--of the revived series.--Stanley Wiater