1
/
of
0
Beaumont Charles
Perchance To Dream Selected Stories
Perchance To Dream Selected Stories
Books
Regular price
$24.77 USD
Regular price
Sale price
$24.77 USD
Unit price
/
per
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Couldn't load pickup availability
Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 for The Twilight Zone for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont's finest stories including seven that he later adapted for Twilight Zone 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 Beaumont's hands nothing is impossible: it all seems plausible even likely." Beaumont's imagination as Perchance to Dream amply shows was more than most writers enjoy in the longest of lifetimes." - NPR For more than sixty - five years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English - speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up - to - date translations by award - winning translators.
Title: Perchance To Dream Selected Stories
Author(s): Beaumont Charles
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780143107651
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 10/13/2015
Category: Short Stories
Description: 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 for The Twilight Zone for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont's finest stories including seven that he later adapted for Twilight Zone 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 Beaumont's hands nothing is impossible: it all seems plausible even likely." Beaumont's imagination as Perchance to Dream amply shows was more than most writers enjoy in the longest of lifetimes." - NPR For more than sixty - five years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English - speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up - to - date translations by award - winning translators.
Title: Perchance To Dream Selected Stories
Author(s): Beaumont Charles
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780143107651
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 10/13/2015
Category: Short Stories