Notes on Contributors.

Introduction (Lester H. Hunt).

1. "And Now, Rod Serling, Creator of The Twilight
Zone ": The Author as Auteur (Lester H.
Hunt).

2. Tales of Dread in The Twilight Zone: A Contribution to
Narratology (Noël Carroll).

3. Frame Shifters: Surprise Endings and Spectator Imagination in
The Twilight Zone (Carl Plantinga).

4. The Treachery of the Commonplace (Mary Sirridge).

5. Where is the Twilight Zone? (Richard Hanley).

6. Existentialism and Searching for an Exit (Susan L.
Feagin).

7. Through the Twilight Zone of Nonbeing: Two Exemplars of Race
in Serling's Classic Series (Lewis R. Gordon).

8. Blending Fiction and Reality: "The Odyssey of Flight
33" (Thomas E. Wartenberg).

9. Epistemology at 20,000 Feet (Sheila Lintott).

10. Rationality and Choice in "Nick of Time"
(Aeon J. Skoble).

11. "The Little People": Power and the Worshipable
(Aaron Smuts).

12. Nothing in the Dark: Deprivation, Death, and the Good Life
(James S. Taylor).

Index.

"The anthology's substantial entries offer the reader rigorous,
lucid, and stylistically polished arguments about one of the best
dramas ever to grace American television screens. This collection
is, to invoke Serling's memorable prose style, worthy of one's
perusal, consideration, and review." (Journal of the Fantastic in
the Arts, 21 March 2011)



"It acts as a guide to unearthing larger
questions--from human nature to the nature of reality and
beyond--posed in the series." (Gnist.no, June
2009)

"If you've ever felt lost in The Twilight Zone, this book is
for you. Then, again, when you read what these philosophers have to
say you may want to stay!"

-William Irwin, King's College

"The Twilight Zone smuggled philosophy onto television in the
form of a series of ingenious mind-teasers, seizing the audience's
imagination. Now Nol Carroll and Lester Hunt have put
together a stimulating collection of papers that decipher the
puzzles and explore the philosophical themes. The result is a rich
and thoughtful re-appraisal of a rightly famous attempt to make
drama out of philosophy. Rod Serling would be tickled and
proud."

-Colin McGinn, University of Miami

Noël Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, a former
President of the American Society for Aesthetics, and a recipient
of the Guggenheim Fellowship. He has published numerous books
including the Philosophy of Horror (1990) and A
Philosophy of Mass Art (1999). He has also worked as a
journalist and has written five documentary pictures.

Lester H. Hunt is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has also taught at
Carnegie-Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and The
John Hopkins University. He has written extensively on ethics,
political philosophy, and the aesthetics of film, and is the author
of Nietzsche and the Origins of Virtue (1990) and
Character and Culture (1998). He is currently working on a
book on anarchy and the justification of the state.

N. Carroll, City University of New York; L. Hunt, University of Wisconsin-Madison