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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Martin Pengelly in Washington

Story by Rod Serling, Twilight Zone creator, published after 70 years

Rod Serling introduces an episode of ‘The Twilight Zone’ in Culver City, California, on 23 January 1962.
Rod Serling introduces an episode of ‘The Twilight Zone’ in Culver City, California, on 23 January 1962. Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images

A story of the second world war by Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone, will be published in the US on Thursday after lying among his papers for nearly 70 years.

“I was writing a memoir, called As I Knew Him, My Dad, Rod Serling,” Anne Serling, one of two daughters, told the Guardian. “And another writer, Amy Boyle Johnston, who had been doing a lot of researching of my dad’s early work and wrote a book called Unknown Serling, sent me the story. She’d found it in the archives in Wisconsin,” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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