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Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories
| Author: | Charles Beaumont |
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Synopsis
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 five 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.
Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Beaumont Remembered - essay by Ray Bradbury
- Perchance to Dream - (1958) - short story
- The Jungle - (1954) - novelette
- Sorcerer's Moon - (1959) - short story
- You Can't Have Them All - (1956) - short story
- Fritzchen - (1953) - short story
- Father, Dear Father - (1957) - short story
- The Howling Man - (1959) - short story
- A Classic Affair - (1955) - short story
- Place of Meeting - (1953) - short story
- Song for a Lady - (1960) - short story
- Blood Brother - (1961) - short story
- In His Image - (1957) - novelette (variant of The Man Who Made Himself)
- The Monster Show - (1956) - short story
- The Beautiful People - (1952) - short story
- Free Dirt - (1955) - short story
- The Magic Man - (1960) - short story
- Last Rites - (1955) - short story
- The Music of the Yellow Brass - (1959) - short story
- The New People - (1958) - short story
- A Death in the Country - (1957) - short story
- Träumerei - short story
- Night Ride - (1957) - short story
- The New Sound - (1955) - short story
- Afterword - essay by William Shatner
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