Time And The Riddle. Anthology for fans of The Twilight Zone

Almost all of these stories could have sat quite comfortably among the canon of The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits, without being at all out of place. Indeed, it seems entirely possible to me (not having checked) that maybe some of them did appear in the later, renewed series’?
Some are a little flawed by their (now dated) attitudes toward race and there are one or two usages that may make some listeners bristle? However, all are well written, imaginative and clever. Some have twists, while others are more simple explorations of the, “What If?” variety, that simply ask us to consider what the world might look like had such and such a thing actually occurred; or what are the true implications of common place ideas that most of us take for granted, without fully thinking them through.
Whilst never attaining the calibre of a Rod Serling or a Harlan Ellison penned anthology, they are nevertheless rather thoughtful, original and rewarding tales, marred only slightly by a somewhat indifferent reading by the narrator, who, whilst being competent enough, doesn’t really do the stories or their characters justice with his delivery. Some of the accents he attempts are a little cringeworthy.
Yet, I’m confident that fans of the genre will get a lot of enjoyment from this series of stories: there will be at least one or two that fans would probably wish had been made into a movie or TV show. I certainly felt that way.

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