The Twilight Zone approves this book.
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I spent delightful summer evenings as a boy watching The Twilight Zone reruns and felt the charged seismic rumblings of a writer awakening. This bio tours and detours us through Serlings youth, military career, his rise as a writer during TVs Golden Age, to the Zone and beyond to his unfortunate latter year product spokesman gigs. Though this Video Aesop should have known better than any of us how money and fame corrupt good men, Serling proved deaf to his own lesson. And we all know no one should smoke that much. This message, submitted for your approval, by The Twilight Zone.
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If you find Twilight Zone-ish interconnected stories, that special humor that occurs in a small town full of characters, Stephen King-like scares, pirates, UFOs & jambands(?!?) an interesting combination, then please do yourself a favor a pick up this outstanding book by John Derhak. Set in a hotel in the middle of nowhere (The Lost Kingdom), the goings-on at the moe. Republic are beyond entertaining. A fictional work, interwoven with the real-life jamband, moe. (John's brother, moe. bassist Rob, backs the hotel with the vast amount of money he's earned touring the country with the best band in the land), this book provides one captivating tale after the next.

You do not have to have any knowledge of moe. to thoroughly enjoy this book as it stands on its own as an engrossing work that will make you want to read it again immediately after completing it the first time. Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys a good adventure, a good scare, a good laugh or a combination of all three.
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I think these qualify as Twilight Zone for kids and tweens...simple, easy to read...but compelling and slightly frightening, Don't Forget Me has a VERY Twilight Zone feel to the beginning and it holds up fairly well with the first person narrative (story is told from the perspective of Danielle, a 15 year old whose family just moved into an old rambling house).

As it happens, Danielle has an annoying little brother and just may get her wish to be an only child...this book piles it on with bumps in the night, doors that open by themselves and apparitions...that and a creepy old basement helps things along quite nicely!  Will Danielle be able to help her family remember her and her brother?  You'll have to read to find out...and it also has a further tip of the hat to Twilight Zone at the very end...quite well done!

This is our first experience with R.L. Stein and we'll probably be back for more.  We're also looking to get Girl (who is finally old enough to read such things on her own) some of the Goosebumps stories to read...especially since fall is coming on and we all LOVE Halloween.
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What a great way to get to know an author you may not have read before. Thank you Cemetary Dance and Brian James Freeman for making the book available in these online formats. I downloaded the eBook pdf and then the audio so I could enjoy both. The beginning narration of the audio calls back memories of The Twilight Zone series and I could almost hear Rod Serling as the story began to unfold. The eBook version has many great additions which add another level of enjoyment for you, dear reader. Enjoy, and BEWARE OF BUNNIES WITH RED EYES!!!
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I actually really enjoyed this movie. I think that most of the bad reviews are due to the expectations of a horror film.  It has it's scary moments, but the real enjoyment comes from it's similarities to some of the old twilight zone episodes that I have seen. It's a great updated version of one of those.  For a "b" movie, the acting is also not so bad. Everybody is pretty believable in their character. I would definitely recommend to put it somewhere in the middle of your "To Watch" list.
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This could easily have been a classic episode of 'Twilight Zone'.  It has a deep, satisfying creepiness and leaves the reader wanting to find out what happens next.  Well done!
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The stories felt like I was watching a classic twilight zone with only Ron Serling missing. Just scifi at it's purest. Not flashy but well written, with substance and depth that seems tohave been missing from this genre for a very long time.
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Twilight Zone horror done well. I generally don't read much in the horror genre so I know I missed somethings. But if you think of these stories as Twilight Zone shorts most of the stories come alive.
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This book is amazing. I read it within the hour after UPS dropped it at my doorstep and I go back almost every day to re-read a story or two. My favorite ones are "The Park" (the saddest) and "Eric and Trish" (the scariest). They remind me of those from the Twilight Zone and Tales from the Darkside that I used to watch when I was younger, and which scared the hebbie jeebies out of me. I hope one day they make it to the small screen, that's how good these pieces are. I love the photographs. They lend an eerie feeling to the pieces.

Jac
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ONE OF THEE BEST  TWILIGHT ZONE STORIES.  ART CARNEY  WAS IN TOP FORM.  A MUST FOR FAMILIES OF ALL AGES.
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First the disclaimer: Jax Spenser contacted me and offered a free copy in exchange for an honest review. The book sounded interesting so I accepted. I've been offered books in the past and found them to be a mixed bag, so I wasn't sure what to expect with this one. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the writing and the pages flew by quickly.

This is the story of Keegan Roe, a teenage boy heading west with his father to escape an abusive mother. When Keegan wakes from some recovery sleep in the backseat, he finds that his father has picked up a hitchhiker, and the weirdness begins. At times this book felt like an episode of The Twilight Zone, one of my favorite shows. A lot of strange, unexplained things happening that add up to a whole lot of weird.

Keegan's father drives the hitchhiker to his secluded hometown, and quickly finds himself with a new job, house and girlfriend. Keegan's transition to his new home, school and potential girlfriend is less smooth as Keegan questions many of the things happening around him. The further into the book I read, the more I wanted to keep reading until I was flying through the pages to the very end.

I quite enjoyed this book. It had enough eerie things going on to give me a sense of unease. The pieces of the plot slowly swim into focus until it all makes sense. My kind of book and one that makes me look forward to Jax Spenser's next release.
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Loved the twilight zone! Its my favorite Syfy with the Outterlimits  Series . Grew up watching good show like this
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I really liked this book. In a way, it is "Twilight" as it should have been written. Unlike "Twilight", here I cared equally about the narration as I did about the conversations between the characters. The author simply has a better way with words. Looking forward to the next one.
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A concise "go to" book on THE TWILIGHT ZONE and everyone in it. I went through the episodes I love and
learned more than I already knew not to mention some inside stuff about Rod Serling, his cast members and
the episodes themselves which of course I find fascinating. Well-researched and extraordinary in its detail,
I was impressed by the work that went into this book. I particularly enjoyed some of the behind-the-scenes
details about some episodes, their writers, Serling dealing with Industry censors at the time and even how
some scene's content and dialogue were censored because of either the studio standards of the time or
just plain worry over viewer response. Diehard Twilight Zone fans, you should grab this one!
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Mr. Stinson's Amazon review of this book is right-on!  I've just finished reading the book and most of what I was planning to say is right in Mr. Stinson's review.  Red, White and Blue Paradise should be in the library of every ex-Zonian who remembers the Canal Zone with fondness.  It's an antidote to all the Marxist nonsense written about the Zone by the usual suspects.  Herbert and Mary Knapp experienced the Zone, overcame their initial prejudices and wrote the truth about their time there.  This isn't just an intellectual/political history.  Life in The Zone is described in great detail.  The book brought back many fond memories - I spent two years at BHS in the late '50's and even then I thought of the Zone as a paradise.  This book now joins The Path Between the Seas on my bookshelf.  I highly recommend Red, White and Blue Paradise.
Incidentally, although the book is out of print, the copy Amazon obtained for me was an ex-library copy in excellent shape.
Marshall S Thomas
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Come on its Twilight Zone..enough said..Great show
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Quick read that seems a script for the Twilight Zone.  It has the same twist at the end.  There's a signpost up ahead, next stop the Twilight Zone !