What are people saying about Rod Serling and THE TWILIGHT ZONE?

“A fine and fitting tribute to a show which I was privileged to be a part of.”
-- Richard Matheson, writer of I Am Legend, Star Trek, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir Of Echoes, The Outer Limits, Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories, Steven Spielberg’s Duel, and The Twilight Zone – Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

“An amalgam of Serling biography, episode synopsis, thematic categorization, and profound literary/psychological analysis, this (volume) pulls these elements together and presents them in a concise narrative that should appeal to casual and fervent fans alike . . . Brode's highly subjective opinions are well-reasoned and thought-provoking, and provide quite a fitting tribute to Serling . . . a provocative read (and) a most appropriate Golden Anniversary homage to the show and its creator.”
-- Tony Albarella, The Rod Serling Memorial Foundation Newsletter

“Brode, The finest scholar of American popular culture working today, has here written what is easily the most definitive study of THE TWILIGHT ZONE - or ANY television program, for that matter!”
--Rod Lurie, TV/Movie writer/director/producer of Commander in Chief, Line of Fire, The Contender, Resurrecting the Champ, The Last Castle and Nothing but the Truth

“What I find most appealing about this exciting and important new volume is the manner in with Douglas Brode, as in all his previous books, takes complex, even difficult ideas about the TV/movie mediums and expresses them in a clear, concise prose style that will prove completely comprehensible to virtually everyone.”
--Michael Schoonmaker, Ph.D.; author of Cameras in the Classroom:  Educating The Post-TV Generation

“A timely commentary on TV’s first truly great filmed weekly dramatic series THE TWILIGHT ZONE, a show that has clearly passed the test of time and speaks again to each new generation of devoted fans.”
--Earl Hamner Jr., multi-Emmy winning TV writer/producer of The Twilight Zone and The Waltons

“Entertaining as well as insightful, this book offers much that will intrigue both long-time ‘Zonies’ and newcomers to THE TWILIGHT ZONE – basically, everybody who hungers to know more about one of the most popular TV series of all time, and the deep dark undercurrents beneath the show’s star-speckled surface.”
--Bob Shayne, TV writer of Hart to Hart, Remington Steele, Return of Sherlock Holmes and Simon and Simon

“Rod Serling as the ‘the producer’ was the contractor.  The writers were the map makers and architects.  The Director played the part of foreman on the job, but it was the actors who built this shrine called THE TWILIGHT ZONE, transforming the scripts into the sights and sounds that make up a film.  Here at last is the definitive book on THE TWILIGHT ZONE, the first ever to accurately describe the working process for that great series.”
--George Clayton Johnson, TV/movie writer of The Twilight Zone, Kung Fu, Route 66, Honey West and Ocean’s Eleven (1960)


Link to:
San Antonio Current Book Review:  Tripping through the ‘Twilight Zone’ by Rick Klaw