Rod Serling excelled as a dramatist rather than as a prose writer (amply attested by his Twilight Zone short story collections), but this little book is still a worthwhile souvenir for fans of Night Gallery, Serling's second network TV series in the psychological horror/dark fantasy/sci-fi mold. It contains adaptations of five teleplays that he authored for the show's first season (including Emmy-nominated "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar"), and one story which was never dramatized. The standout is "The Sole Survivor," which manages to recreate some of the cold, doomy atmosphere of the Night Gallery segment "Lone Survivor" (about a lifeboat passenger with a ghastly tale to tell, and an even more horrible warning to issue). In "Does the Name Grimsby Do Anything to You?", the aforementioned undramatized story, the first man to reach the Moon is haunted by the suspicion that he was not the first. ( )