Title
Perchance to dream : selected stories / Charles Beaumont ; Foreword by Ray Bradbury ; Afterword by William Shatner.
Uniform Title
Short stories. Selections
ISBN
9780143107651 (paperback)
0143107658 (paperback)
Published
New York City : Penguin Books, [2015]
Language
English
Description
xiv, 320 pages ; 20 cm.
Call Number
PS3552.E2316 A6 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.54
Summary
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.
Series
Penguin classics.
Perchance to dream
The jungle
Sorcerer's moon
You can't have them all
Fritzchen
Father, dear father
The howling man
A classic affair
Place of meeting
Song for a lady
Blood brother
In his image
The monster show
The beautiful people
Free dirt
The magic man
Last rites
The music of the yellow brass
The new people
A death in the country
Träumerei
Night ride
The new sound.
