Twilight Zone literature is an umbrella term for the many books and comic books which concern or adapt The Twilight Zone television series.
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Numerous novelizations were published based upon episodes of Twilight Zone, as were several volumes of original short stories published under the Twilight Zone brand and edited by Rod Serling himself. An example is Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary, though it was edited by Serling's widow Carol Serling.
The Twilight Zone is referenced several times in the Sunday Newspaper Funnies Comic Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - March 27th 1932 - to describe the area on the planet Mercury between the side that is always facing the sun and the planet side that is always shrouded in icy darkness. Buddy Deering of Earth and Alura Princess of Mars are helping in the battle between The Kollanians - inhabitants of the eternally frozen hemisphere and The Odlannians - of the blazing Desert hemisphere. (Page 114 of the recently republished adventures of - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: The Complete Newspaper Sundays Volume One 1930 - 1933)
Gold Key Comics published a long-running Twilight Zone comic that featured the likeness of Serling introducing both original stories and occasional adaptations of episodes. The comic outlived the television series by nearly 20 years and Serling by nearly a decade. A later revival of Twilight Zone comics was published by Now Comics, spinning off of the 1980s revival of the show.
In 2008, The Savannah College of Art & Design and publisher Walker & Company collaborated to produce a series of graphic novel adaptations of episodes from the series that were written by Rod Serling.[1]
In 1982, Marc Scott Zicree published an episode-by-episode guide of the original series, The Twilight Zone Companion (published by Bantam Books) which became a best-seller and greatly influenced future tomes on television series.
Beginning in 1981 and with T. E. D. Klein as editor, The Twilight Zone Magazine featured horror fiction and to some extent other forms of fantasy and some borderline science fiction. From March 1986 until its last issue of June 1989 the editor was Tappan King, who also edited its "twisted sister" publication, Night Cry. The TZ Magazine reviewed and previewed new movies while publishing articles about the original and revival Twilight Zone television series, among other cultural oddities. It was the most reliable market for much of the best short horror in that period and appealed to audiences for the likes of Fangoria and Starlog as well as for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Whispers. Like Omni Magazine, which it also somewhat resembled, it was published by a company better-known for "skin" magazines, Gallery's Montcalm Publishing. The all-fiction digest-sized companion, Night Cry, makes a cameo in The 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" by William Hope Hodgson, and The Bookshop by Nelson Bond.
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