Serling, Carol
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Editor, TV.
(1929-2020) US editor and Television producer, married to Rod Serling from 1948 until his death in 1975 and long associated with his enterprises, in particular The Twilight Zone (1959-1964). She edited Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader (anth 1987) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh (see Rod Serling's Night Gallery). More important was her editorial involvement in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine (1981-1989). She also edited several Twilight Zone-based anthologies in the wake of the show's second series (1985-1989), beginning with Journeys to the Twilight Zone (anth 1993) [see Checklist below for all titles], and published Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone: The 50th Anniversary Tribute (2009) with Douglas Brode. She was an executive producer for the first ten episodes of the third series of The Twilight Zone (2019-current). [DRL]
Carolyn Serling
born Columbus, Ohio: 3 February 1929
died Pacific Palisades, California: 9 January 2020
works
nonfiction
- Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone: The 50th Anniversary Tribute (Fort Lee, New Jersey: Barricade Books, 2009) with Douglas Brode [hb/photographic]
works as editor
series
The Twilight Zone
- Journeys to the Twilight Zone (New York: DAW Books, 1993) [anth: Twilight Zone: pb/George Long]
- Return to the Twilight Zone (New York: DAW Books, 1994) [anth: Twilight Zone: pb/Jean-François Podevin]
- Adventures in the Twilight Zone (New York: DAW Books, 1994) [anth: Twilight Zone: pb/Jean-François Podevin]
- Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary (New York: Tor, 2009) [anth: Twilight Zone: hb/]
- More Stories from the Twilight Zone (New York: Tor, 2010) [anth: Twilight Zone: hb/]
individual titles as editor
- Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader (New York: Dembner Books, 1987) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: Rod Serling: hb/uncredited]
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