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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction: The World According to Rod | |
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| THE WAY WE WERE: The Lure of Nostalgia | |
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| Walking Distance | |
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| A Stop at Willoughby | |
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| The Incredible World of Horace Ford | |
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| What Dreams May Come: Nightmares at Noon | |
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| Where Is Everybody? | |
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| King Nine Will Not Return | |
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| Perchance to Dream | |
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| Nightmare as a Child | |
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| Shadow Play | |
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| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | |
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| Angels in America: Cosmic Capra-Corn | |
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| One for the Angels | |
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| The Big Tall Wish | |
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| A Passage for Trumpet | |
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| Night of the Meek | |
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| The Changing of the Guard | |
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| Me, Myself, & I: An Auteur's Identity Crisis | |
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| And When the Sky Was Opened | |
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| Mirror Image | |
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| The After Hours | |
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| Miniature | |
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| Mute | |
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| A World of Difference | |
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| The Dummy | |
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| A Quality of Mercy | |
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| Future Imperfect: The Shape of Things to Come | |
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| The Lonely | |
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| I Sing the Body Electric | |
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| Third from the Sun | |
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| I Shot an Arrow Into the Air | |
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| People Are Alike All Over | |
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| The Parallel | |
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| It's About Time!: Had We But World Enough… | |
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| Time Enough at Last | |
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| Two | |
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| Back There | |
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| No Time Like the Past | |
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| The Last Flight | |
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| The Odyssey of Flight 33 | |
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| The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms | |
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| A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain | |
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| The Undiscovered Country: Death in the Fifth Dimension | |
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| The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine | |
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| The Four of Us Are Dying | |
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| The Hitch-Hiker | |
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| The Purple Testament | |
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| Deaths-Head Revisited | |
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| The Thirty-Fathom Grave | |
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| A Nice Place to Visit | |
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| Nothing in the Dark | |
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| Death Ship | |
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| Long Distance Call | |
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| In Praise of Pip | |
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| Deals with the Devil: Dr. Faustus in the Fifth Dimension | |
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| Escape Clause | |
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| The Fever | |
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| Nick of Time | |
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| Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room | |
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| Last Night of a Jockey | |
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| Long Live Walter Jameson | |
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| Printer's Devil | |
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| Jess-Belle | |
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| Of Late I Think of Cliffordville | |
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| The Bard | |
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| How the West was Weird: Two Genres at a Crossroads | |
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| Mr. Denton on Doomsday | |
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| A Hundred Yards Over the Rim | |
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| Execution | |
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| Dust | |
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| The Grave | |
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| Mr. Garrity and the Graves | |
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| Showdown with Rance McGrew | |
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| "Look to the Skies!": Close Encounters of the Zone Kind | |
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| The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street | |
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| Mr. Dingle, the Strong | |
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| Hocus Pocus and Frisby | |
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| The Invaders | |
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| The Little People | |
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| The Fear | |
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| Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? | |
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| The Fugitive | |
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| The Gift | |
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| To Serve Man | |
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| Right Turn/Left Face: Politics in the Zone | |
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| Judgment Night | |
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| He's Alive | |
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| The Howling Man | |
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| The Obsolete Man | |
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| On Thursday We Leave for Home | |
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| The Old Man in the Cave | |
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| Video Noir: The Dark Side of the Small Screen | |
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| The Eye of the Beholder | |
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| It's a Good Life | |
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| The Shelter | |
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| One More Pallbearer | |
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| The Midnight Sun | |
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| Little Girl Lost | |
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| Kick the Can | |
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| Spur of the Moment | |
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| Uncle Simon | |
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| The Masks | |
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| Living Doll | |
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| Nightmare at 20,000 Feet | |
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| I Am the Night-Color Me Black | |
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| The Long Morrow | |
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| Conclusion: Why Should we Take Serling Seriously? | |
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| Index | |