The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of the legendary Twilight Zone writer

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 huge and varied they burst about Perchance to Dream: Selected Tales through the walls of whatever package may contain them. Supernatural, horror, noir, technology fiction, illusion, pulp, and more-all had been equally at home in his wondrous mind. These are stories where lions stalk the plains, classic cars rove the roads, and spacecraft hover just overhead. Right here roam music artists, magicians, vampires, monsters, toreros, extraterrestrials, androids, and perhaps actually the Devil himself. With dizzying feats of master storytelling and joyously eccentric laughter, Beaumont transformed his nightmares and reveries into impeccably crafted stories that keep themselves indelibly stamped upon the wall space of the mind. In Beaumont’s hands, there is nothing impossible; it all seems plausible, even likely.

“In every genre he explored, Beaumont wrote with design, using a sure sense of his characters. His stories are often haunting, and though their problems are ever long lasting, they provide a definite window into the anxieties and hopes of his period.”-Dean Koontz, #1 New York Moments bestselling author