Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories

Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories

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
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It is only natural that Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts forÂ The Twilight Zoneâ€”for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to DreamÂ contains a selection of Beaumontâ€™s finest stories, including seven that he later adapted forÂ Twilight ZoneÂ 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 Beaumontâ€™s hands, nothing is impossible: it all seems plausible, even likely.

"[Beaumontâ€™s] imagination, asÂ Perchance to DreamÂ amply shows, was more than most writers enjoy in the longest of lifetimes."Â -NPR

For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500Â titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theÂ series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-dateÂ translations by award-winning translators.
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780143107651
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2015-10-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780143107651

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780143107651
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2015-10-13
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780143107651

Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories

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