Twilight Zone Encyclopedia

Twilight Zone Encyclopedia | Steven Jay Rubin

🎶 It's the most wonderful time of the year 🎶

The Twilight Zone marathon has always been one of my favorite TV events! So many phenomenal stories by such talented authors, Rod Serling's narration... it always feels like home!!! I typically watch with these two reference guides, too. Totally normal TV watching, right? 👌😏

vivastory Have you read this

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IamIamIam @vivastory Yes!!! It was so well written!! I loved it and told my husband he needs to read it too! 🥰🥰 1y

vivastory I found it very informative. I esp loved the info about his friendship with Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz & how they helped him get started. I agree about the roster of talent on TZ. I have the Penguin collection of Beaumont's stories & am looking forward to reading it & I've had my eye on their volume of Matheson stories that was pub a couple of yrs ago 1y

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IamIamIam @vivastory I read Perchance to Dream last year and was really blown away! It was easier to get Matheson's stories but I always liked Beaumont's episodes better!!! Rod Serling was so ahead of his time and so determined to get his message across. 😁 1y

vivastory This isn't related to Matheson or Beaumont, but on the topic of TZ, I recently realized that the mother in the Talky Tina episode is name Annabelle...which seems to be an odd coincidence for the recent movie even though that was based on a story that was supposedly told to the Warrens 1y

IamIamIam @vivastory Oh, that's interesting!!! I wonder when the Warrens investigated that... had to be the 70s, right?? My kids love that episode, by the way, LOL... 1y

vivastory Who, hahaha...so I just read the wikipedia page for Annabelle (the doll) & came across this:
Texas State University assistant professor of religious studies Joseph Laycock says most skeptics have dismissed the Warrens' museum as “full of off-the-shelf Halloween junk, dolls and toys, books you could buy at any bookstore“. Laycock calls the Annabelle legend an “interesting case study in the relationship between pop culture and paranormal folklore“.. 1y

vivastory and speculates that the demonic doll trope popularized by films such as Child's Play, Dolly Dearest, and The Conjuring likely emerged from early legends surrounding Robert the Doll, as well as from a Twilight Zone episode released five years prior to the Warrens' story, entitled “Living Doll“, in which the character of the mother is named Annabelle. Laycock suggests that “the idea of demonically possessed dolls allows modern demonologists to find 1y

vivastory supernatural evil in the most banal and domestic of places.“
hahah 1y

IamIamIam @vivastory LMAO, that's great!!! I've heard they're pretty sensational but you gotta give the people what they want!!! I do love the lore surrounding Robert the Doll and I think the Warren's were great business folk! I love that you put Living Doll and Annabelle together!!! 👏👏👏 You're on my team at a murder mystery party! 🤣 1y

vivastory 😂 😂 They were good business people & the stories, tales & movies are still very entertaining. The midnight screening of The Conjuring remains one of my favorite moviegoing experiences to this day. 1y

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RamsFan1963

Twilight Zone Encyclopedia | Steven Rubin

Wonderful!! My glasses just broke. Fortunately, I don't need my glasses to read, but just about everything else lol. Of course, all the places to get my glasses fixed are closed because of pandemic.

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TK-421 Oh no! It‘s fortunate you don‘t need them to read but damn! And I gotta say, best episode of Twilight Zone ever! 4y

CindyMyLifeIsLit We use this episode with Fahrenheit 451. Great for irony! 4y

rwmg One of the lenses fell out of my glasses the other day. Fortunately I have a spare pair 4y

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RamsFan1963 @rwmg I have a spare pair, but they're not in good shape. Hopefully they'll hold together until I can get the others fixed. Worse come to worse, I can look cool in my prescription ray-bans lol 4y

Buechersuechtling Ever since I was given my own glasses 👓 with six or seven, I was told that a second pair is necessary. I understood why but often think it‘s a waste of money … until days like these … 🤭 I hope your spare pair won‘t let you down. 4y

ValerieAndBooks Tell me about it! No broken glasses here but I went in-store on March 10th to order a new pair of glasses and rx sunglasses— glasses were delivered but sunglasses are in limbo somewhere. And so is my daughter‘s yearly supply of contact lenses, although she really doesn‘t needs them if she‘s not going anywhere, still irritating. Glad you do have an extra pair. 4y

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