Writer and actor Ron Riekki has won several screenplay awards including best sci-fi/fantasy from the International Family Film Festival, best comedy from the Los Angeles Film Awards and the Nuclear Pen Award from the GenreBlast Film Festival. Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., is a professional actor and director whose previous books have covered topics ranging from Star Wars to Renaissance faires. He is a professor and chair of the theater department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceRon RiekkiSubmitted for Your Approval: A Host and His Series and Their Remarkable Afterlives—An IntroductionKevin J. Wetmore, Jr.Part I. A Dimension of Mind: Ideas, Philosophy, and the Original SeriesMiddle Ground: The Twilight Zone as Social CriticismValerie L. GuyantSocial Liberalism and Orthodox Theology: Ideas of God in The Twilight ZoneBrandon R. GrafiusRod Serling and the Ambiguity of Being Kevin BolingerThe Twilight of HumanismAlexander E. HookeThe Strange Zone of Speculative RhetoricJimmy ButtsSerling and the Bomb: The Twilight Zone’s Nuclear LandscapeMolly A. SchneiderThe Twilight Zone Goes to War!Elsa M. Carruthers and Paul PopielPart II. “Remember that one episode?”From Demonic “Opie” to Latchkey Kid: The Narrative/Character Shifts in “It’s a Good Life” from Television to FilmErin Giannini“Stopover in a Quiet Town,” the Horror Film, and Dread of the ChildDawn KeetleyGrief, Loss, and the Unknown: The Hauntological Phantasm of Richard Matheson’s The Twilight ZoneMelissa A. Kaufler“It’s simply out of my hands”: Human Nature as Illustrated in The Twilight Zone’s “The Shelter”Michael MeyerhoferPart III. The Twilight Zone in the EightiesTwilight Zone: The Meta: Interior and Epiphenomenal Elements That Frame Twilight Zone: The MovieKevin J. Wetmore, Jr.Twilight of the Vampires: The Twilight Zone, Vampires, America, andSimon BaconIf You Dream It, They Will FilmPaul ChitlikMy “If She Dies” Diary: A Writer’s Personal Journey into The Twilight ZoneDavid Bennett CarrenPart IV. Comparative ZonesStrange Realities: Twilight ­Zone–sploitation in Encounter with the UnknownNicholas DiakGet Out of The Twilight Zone: The Original TV Series and Newest Reboot JuxtaposedDavid MelbyePart V. Staging the ZoneFrom Curator to ­Co-Author: Examining the Narrative and Political Choices in Anne Washburn’s Stage Adaptation of The Twilight ZoneWilliam C. BolesA Twilight Zone of Our Own: Production Is StorytellingSteve Krahnke and Michael AronsonAbout the ContributorsIndex