Mark Dawidziak is the author or editor of about 25 books, including three studies of landmark television series: The Columbo Phile: A Casebook, The Night Stalker Companion and Everything I Need to Know I Learned in The Twilight Zone, his lighthearted 2017 tribute to Rod Serling s classic anthology series. He also is an internationally recognized Mark Twain scholar, and five of his books are about the iconic American writer. He spent 43 years as a television, film and theater critic at such newspapers as the Akron Beacon Journal and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. His work on the horror side of the street also includes the novel Grave Secrets, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dracula, short stories, and comic book scripts. He lives in Ohio.

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**Now with important life lessons from the Jordan Peele reboot, the earlier TV reboot, and the 1983 movie.

*Can you live your life by what *The Twilight Zone has to teach you? Yes, and maybe you should. The proof is in this lighthearted collection of life lessons, ground rules, inspirational thoughts, and stirring reminders found in Rod Serling's timeless fantasy series.

The notion that "it's never too late to reinvent yourself" soars through "The Last Flight,'' in which a World War I flier goes forward in time and gets the chance to trade cowardice for heroism. A visit from an angel blares out the wisdom of "follow your passion" in "A Passage for Trumpet." The meaning of "divided we fall" is driven home with dramatic results when neighbors suspect neighbors of being invading aliens in "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." The old maxim about never judging a book by its cover is given a tasty twist when an alien tome is translated in "To Serve Man."

An unauthorized tribute, Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone, written by veteran TV critic Mark Dawidziak, is a celebration of the classic anthology show; but also, on another level, a kind of fifth-dimension self-help book, with each lesson supported by the morality tales told by Serling and his writers.

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Overture for Another Dimension
Foreword by Anne Serling

Lessons from The Twilight Zone: Submitted for Your Improvement
Rod Serling: A Moralist in Disguise
One Giant Spoiler Alert

Lesson 1: Always keep your heart open to the magic that comes your way
Lesson 2: Follow your passion
Lesson 3: Read every contract carefully
Lesson 4: Nobody said life was fair
Lesson 5: Keep your inner child alive
Lesson 6: Divided we fall
Lesson 7: Don t live in the past
Lesson 8: Dogs really can be your best friend
Lesson 9: Beware the person who says, I dare you
Lesson 10: It s never too late to reinvent yourself
Lesson 11: Getting to the top comes with a price staying there
Lesson 12: Take care of your own inner demons before you go meddling with others
Lesson 13: Beauty truly is in
Lesson 14: Be your own person
Lesson 15: Count your blessings
Lesson 16: Don t let superstitions rule your life
Lesson 17: Let it go
Lesson 18: You re only truly old when you decide you re old
Lesson 19: If you get unbelievably lucky, don t push your luck
Lesson 20: If life gives you another chance, make the most of it
Lesson 21: Death, where is thy sting?
Lesson 22: Earth provides enough to satisfy every man s need but not every man s greed
Lesson 23: When you reach a fork in the road, take it
Lesson 24: When nobody else believes in you, keep believing in yourself
Lesson 25: That which doesn t kill you makes you stronger
Lesson 26: Never judge a book by its cover
Lesson 27: If something looks good to be true, it probably is
Lesson 28: The grass is always greener or so you think
Lesson 29: Respect your elders
Lesson 30: Judge not lest ye be judged
Lesson 31: Share with others
Lesson 32: Imagine a better world
Lesson 33: To thine own self be true
Lesson 34: Suffer the little children
Lesson 35: Make the most of the time you ve got
Lesson 36: Nobody lives forever
Lesson 37: Remember your happy place
Lesson 38: Fill your life with something other than hate
Lesson 39: To forgive is divine
Lesson 40: Payback is äor, what goes around comes around
Lesson 41: Don t fear the unknown
Lesson 42: Play nice with others
Lesson 43: Be careful what you wish for
Lesson 44: Don t be a bully
Lesson 45: Remember the people who got you where you are
Lesson 46: The civilization that does not value the printed word and the individual is not civilized
Lesson 47: Everybody needs somebody sometime
Lesson 48: The universe does not revolve around you
Lesson 49: Never cry wolf
Lesson 50: Angels are all around you