Rating: 5.0
I've always been a fan of The Twilight Zone with it's twisted and often dark tales. This book contains nineteen fantastic stories written by the brilliant Rod Serling. The course many of these stories takes leads to man being the true monster. I suspect some of this may be due to it being the early '60's. I think these are the scariest stories of all though. My favorite tales in this book revolve around what man does to himself and others. Take for instance The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. It's a story about how quickly neighbors and friends turn on each other when they think disaster has struck. Prejudice shows where it didn't before. Or another of my favorites, The Shelter. In this tale the neighborhood doctor pleads with his friends and neighbors to build a bomb shelter in case the worst should happen. They blow him off and spend their free time playing cards and having barbecues. When the worst threatens to happen, the friends and neighbors turn into animals trying to get into the doctors shelter. These are the kinds of stories that give me chills. There is balance though with tales of magic and wonder, like The Night of the Meek. In this story, a burnt out old store Santa finds a burlap bag that turns out to be much more than that. His wish comes true and he is able to bring happiness to the poor people down at the mission and the children who have nothing. I could go on and on about these stories, they all were fun to read, but I'll stop here. In this collection, "Rod Serling continues to leave us spellbound with his imaginative and unsettling tales."
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