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Twilight Zone literature is an umbrella term for the many books and comic books which concern or adaptThe Twilight Zonetelevision series.
Dell Comics published two "Twilight Zone" comics as issues #1173 (March–May 1961) and #1288 (February–April 1962) of theFour Colorcomics anthology.[1] They then published two standalone issues, #01860-207 (May–July 1962) and #01-860-210 (August–October 1962).[1][2]
Gold Key Comics published a long-runningTwilight Zone comic that featured the likeness ofRod Serling introducing both original stories and occasional adaptations of episodes. The comic book series ran for 91 issues from November 1962 to April 1979. Issue #92 was published in May 1982 and reprinted the first issue.[1][3] The Gold Key series continued for years after the television series's last original episode in June 1964[4] and Serling's death on June 28, 1975.[5]
A later revival ofTwilight Zone comics was published byNow Comics,[1] spinning off of the 1980s revival of the show.
In 2008, TheSavannah College of Art & Design and publisherWalker & Company collaborated to produce a series of graphic novel adaptations of episodes from the series that were written by Rod Serling.[6]
Beginning in December 2013, comics publisher Dynamite Entertainment ran a multi-issue series, written by J. Michael Straczynski and with art by Guiu Vilanova.[7]
The publisher IDW is launching a new Twilight Zone comic in September 2025.[8]
Marc Scott Zicree's episode-by-episode guide of theoriginal series,The Twilight Zone Companion (1982), was published byBantam Books. Later editions were updated to include a brief chapter acknowledging the1985 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]
 First issue ofThe Twilight Zone Magazine, April 1981 | |
| Editor | T. E. D. Klein, Michael Blaine,Tappan King |
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| Categories | horror fiction |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| First issue | April 1981 (1981-04) |
| Final issue | June 1989 |
| Country | United States |
| ISSN | 0279-6090 |
Beginning in 1981 and withT. E. D. Klein as editor,The Twilight Zone Magazine (also known asRod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine) featuredhorror fiction and to some extent other forms offantasy and some borderlinescience fiction.[9]The TZ Magazine reviewed and previewed new movies while publishing articles aboutThe 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 likeAnalog.[10] Under Klein'seditorship, the magazine published several noted writers, includingHarlan Ellison,Stephen King,Pamela Sargent, andPeter Straub.[10] In late 1985, Michael Blaine succeeded Klein as editor.[11] From March 1986 until its last issue of June 1989 the editor wasTappan King, who also edited its "twisted sister" publication,Night Cry. It was the most reliable market for much of the best short horror in that period and appealed to audiences for the likes ofFangoria andStarlog, as well as forThe Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction andWhispers. LikeOmni Magazine, which it also somewhat resembled, it was published by a company better-known for "skin" magazines,Gallery's Montcalm Publishing.[10]
The all-fictiondigest-sized companion,Night Cry, makes a cameo inThe Simpsons 300th episode, "Barting Over". On occasion, the magazine and digest reprinted often-anthologized short stories, introducing a new generation of horror aficionados to classic short stories by veteran writers, such as "The Voice in the Night" byWilliam Hope Hodgson, and "The Bookshop" byNelson Bond.
Numerous novelizations were published based upon episodes ofThe Twilight Zone. In 2003, the first Twilight Zone novel was published, entitledThe Twilight Zone Book 1: Harvest Moon, which was written by John J. Miller. Two sequels were later published. The first sequel was entitledThe Twilight Zone Book 2: A Gathering of Shadows which was written by Russell Davis. The second sequel was entitledThe 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 the2002 series. Five authors, Jay Russell, Pat Cadigan, Paul Woods, K. C. Winters and Christa Faust, adapted the episodes.
Several volumes of original short stories were published underThe Twilight Zone brand, the first of which was edited byRod Serling, himself.
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