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Perchance to Dream

Selected Stories

That Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone is only natural: for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. So take one uneasy step and fall headlong into his world: a world where lions stalk the plains, classics cars rove the streets, and spacecraft hover just overhead. Here roam musicians, magicians, vampires, monsters, toreros, extraterrestrials, androids, and perhaps even the Devil himself. Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont's finest stories, including five stories that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes. This volume contains an introduction by Ray Bradbury and an afterword by William Shatner, two fellow science fiction luminaries who counted themselves among Beaumont's close friends.

Charles Beaumont was one of the seminal influences on writers of the fantastic and macabre

Dean Koontz

About Charles Beaumont

Details
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • ISBN: 9780143107651
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 130mm
  • Weight: 241g
  • Price: £9.99