Perchance to Dreamcontains a selection of Beaumont’s finest stories - including five that he later adapted forTwilight Zoneepisodes - with a foreword by Ray Bradbury and an afterword by William Shatner.

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 forThe Twilight Zone-for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to Dreamcontains a selection of Beaumont’s finest stories, including seven that he later adapted forTwilight Zoneepisodes.

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, asPerchance to Dreamamply shows, was more than most writers enjoy in the longest of lifetimes. -NPR

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