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Perchance to dream : selected stories / Charles Beaumont ; foreword by Ray Bradbury ; afterword by William Shatner.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Penguin classicsPublisher: New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2015]Description: xiv, 320 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780143107651
  • 0143107658
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Perchance to dream -- The jungle -- Sorcerer's moon -- You can't have them all -- Fritzchen -- Father, dear father -- The howling man -- A classic affair -- Place of meeting -- Song for a lady -- Blood brother -- In his image -- The monster show -- The beautiful people -- Free dirt -- The magic man -- Last rites -- The music of the yellow brass -- The new people -- A death in the country -- Träumerei -- Night ride -- The new sound.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Science Fiction/Fantasy Beaumont Charles Available 33111008090371
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Perchance to dream -- The jungle -- Sorcerer's moon -- You can't have them all -- Fritzchen -- Father, dear father -- The howling man -- A classic affair -- Place of meeting -- Song for a lady -- Blood brother -- In his image -- The monster show -- The beautiful people -- Free dirt -- The magic man -- Last rites -- The music of the yellow brass -- The new people -- A death in the country -- Träumerei -- Night ride -- The new sound.

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