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Twilight Zone literature is an umbrella term for the many books and comic books which concern or adapt

television series
.

Comics

Now Comics
, spinning off of the 1980s revival of the show.

In 2008, The

Walker & Company collaborated to produce a series of graphic novel adaptations of episodes from the series that were written by Rod Serling.[1]

Beginning in December 2013, comics publisher Dynamite Entertainment ran a multi-issue series, written by J. Michael Straczynski and with art by Guiu Vilanova.[2]

Guides

Marc Scott Zicree's episode-by-episode guide of the original series, The Twilight Zone Companion (1982), was published by Bantam Books. Later editions were updated to include a brief chapter acknowledging the 1985 revival series, although no additions or corrections were made to the previously existing text.

Martin Grams Jr.'s volume, The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic (2008), covers production information for each episode of the original series in great detail. At 800 pages, it is much longer and more detailed than Zicree's guide, and makes a point of identifying and correcting Zicree's misstatements and errors.[citation needed]

Magazines

The Twilight Zone Magazine
ISSN
0279-6090

Beginning in 1981 and with T. E. D. Klein as editor, The Twilight Zone Magazine (also known as Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine) featured horror fiction and to some extent other forms of fantasy and some borderline science fiction.[3] The TZ Magazine reviewed and previewed new movies while publishing articles about The Twilight Zone original and revival (The Twilight Zone) television series, among other cultural oddities. The Twilight Zone Magazine was initially successful; by 1983 it was selling 125,000 issues a month, outselling magazines like Analog.[4] Under Klein's editorship, the magazine published several noted writers, including

Omni Magazine, which it also somewhat resembled, it was published by a company better-known for "skin" magazines, Gallery's Montcalm Publishing.[4]

The all-fiction

Nelson Bond
.

Novels

Numerous novelizations were published based upon episodes of The Twilight Zone. In 2003, the first Twilight Zone novel was published, entitled The Twilight Zone Book 1: Harvest Moon, which was written by John J. Miller. Two sequels were later published. The first sequel was entitled The Twilight Zone Book 2: A Gathering of Shadows which was written by Russell Davis. The second sequel was entitled The Twilight Zone Book 3: Deep in the Dark written by John Helfers.

In 2004, Black Flame released the five novelizations based on 2 episodes each from the 2002 series. Five authors, Jay Russell, Pat Cadigan, Paul Woods, K. C. Winters and Christa Faust, adapted the episodes.

Short story collections

Several volumes of original short stories were published under The Twilight Zone brand, the first of which was edited by Rod Serling, himself.

See also

References

  1. ^ Publishers Weekly
  2. ^ Dynamite Entertainment
  3. ISBN 0879727306
    .
  4. ^
    ISBN 0-425-07670-9. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
    )
  5. ^ Darrell Schweitzer, "Michael Blaine: TZ's new editor seeks eclectic image" Fantasy Review magazine, July 1985, (p. 11-12, 33).
  6. OCLC 16692185
    .
  7. OCLC 4116985
    .
  8. OCLC 5038956
    .
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