Twilight Zone literature is an umbrella term for the many books and comic books which concern or adapt The Twilight Zone television series.
Comics
Dell Comics published two "Twilight Zone" comics as issues #1173 (March–May 1961) and #1288 (February–April 1962) of the Four Color comics anthology. They then published two standalone issues, #01860-207 (May–July 1962) and #01-860-210 (August–October 1962).
Gold Key Comics published a long-running Twilight Zone comic that featured the likeness of Rod Serling introducing both original stories and occasional adaptations of episodes. The comic book series ran for 91 issues from November 1962 to April 1979. Issue #92 was published in May 1982 and reprinted the first issue. George Wilson drew several covers for the series. The Gold Key series continued for years after the television series's last original episode in June 1964 and Serling's death on June 28, 1975.
A later revival of Twilight Zone comics was published by Now Comics,
Beginning in December 2013, comics publisher Dynamite Entertainment ran a multi-issue series, written by J. Michael Straczynski and with art by Guiu Vilanova.
The publisher IDW is launching a new Twilight Zone comic in September 2025.
Guides
Marc Scott Zicree's episode-by-episode guide of the original series, The Twilight Zone Companion (1982), was published by Bantam Books. Later editions were updated to include a brief chapter acknowledging the 1985 revival series, although no additions or corrections were made to the previously existing text.
Martin Grams Jr.'s volume, The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic (2008), covers production information for each episode of the original series in great detail. At 800 pages, it is much longer and more detailed than Zicree's guide, and makes a point of identifying and correcting Zicree's misstatements and errors.
Magazines
Beginning in 1981 and with T. E. D. Klein as editor, The Twilight Zone Magazine (also known as
Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine) featured horror fiction and to some extent other forms of fantasy and some borderline science fiction. The TZ Magazine reviewed and previewed new movies while publishing articles about The Twilight Zone original and revival (The Twilight Zone) television series, among other cultural oddities. The Twilight Zone Magazine was initially successful; by 1983 it was selling 125,000 issues a month, outselling magazines like Analog. Under Klein's
editorship, the magazine published several noted writers, including Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Pamela Sargent, and Peter Straub. From March 1986 until its last issue of June 1989 the editor was Tappan King, who also edited its "twisted sister" publication, Night Cry. It was the most reliable market for much of the best short horror in that period and appealed to audiences for the likes of Fangoria and Starlog, as well as for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Whispers. Like Omni Magazine, which it also somewhat resembled, it was published by a company better-known for "skin" magazines, Gallery<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Montcalm Publishing.
- Chilling Stories from Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone (1965, Grosset & Dunlap)
- Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Revisited (1967)
- Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary (2009, Tor Books)
See also
- Fantasy fiction magazine
- Horror fiction magazine
- Online magazine
- Science fiction magazine