There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man.

It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.

It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears

and the summit of his knowledge this is the dimension of imagination it is an area which we call

the twilight zone The

The the... Since I, shall we say, arrived in the Twilight Zone, I've amassed quite a collection of Twilight Zone

related books and magazines and so on. And I occasionally like to take the time to sit back and

read through some of the volumes in the Twilight Zone Library and, you know, sometimes it might be a

short story from one of the anthology books, other times it might be a short story from one of the

anthology books other times it might be an interview or some trivia and so on

but on this occasion I'm looking through a book called philosophy in the

Twilight Zone which is a series of essays about the show edited together

by Noel Carroll and Lester Hunt.

Now I think the beauty of the Twilight Zone is that you can discuss it on many levels, you

can discuss it purely on the merits of the story, or you can dig a little bit deeper and look at the more philosophical aspects of the show

it's all there my intention with our conversations has always been to

hopefully be somewhere in between and what I mean by that is I want these conversations to be accessible and as all inclusive as possible.

But this is a very interesting book and you know we might dig into it from time to time.

An essay entitled Tales of Dread in the Twilight Zone by Noel Carroll caught my eye recently,

and I'll read a short excerpt from the book for you.

He says, I define a tale of dread as a narrative fantasy about an event in which a character is punished in a manner that is appropriate, the punishment

fits the crime, and modernly humorous, for example often ironic.

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