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Richard Matheson

Richard Matheson

Richard Burton Matheson (born February 20, 1926) is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Somewhere In Time and I Am Legend, all three of which have been adapted as major...
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I Am Legend

I Am Legend is a 1954 science fiction/horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson. It was influential in the development of the vampire genre as well as the zombie genre, in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease, and...

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  • 1954

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  • 1954

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  • 16515

Hell House

Hell House is a novel by American novelist Richard Matheson, published in 1971. The story concerns four people - Dr. Lionel Barrett, a physicist with an interest in parapsychology, his wife Edith, and two mediums (Florence Tanner, a Spiritualist and...

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  • 1971

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  • 1971

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ISFDB ID:

  • 9536

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What Dreams May Come

What Dreams May Come is a 1978 novel by Richard Matheson. The plot centers on Chris, a man who dies and goes to Heaven, but eventually descends into Hell to rescue his wife. It was adapted in 1998 into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same...

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  • 1978

Date of first publication:

  • Sep 1978

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ISFDB ID:

  • 2363

A Stir of Echoes

A Stir of Echoes is a 1958 novel by Richard Matheson that served as the inspiration for the 1999 film, Stir of Echoes.

Copyright date:

  • 1958

ISFDB ID:

  • 307541

Born of Man and Woman

Born of Man and Woman is a science fiction short story by Richard Matheson, originally published in 1950. This extremely short story is written in the form of a diary by a deformed eight year old child, that is kept chained in the basement by its...

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  • 1954

Date of first publication:

  • 1950

ISFDB ID:

  • 37739

The Beardless Warriors

The Beardless Warriors is a 1960 World War II novel written by Richard Matheson, author of I Am Legend. It was filmed by Universal Pictures in 1967 as The Young Warriors a made for TV movie. Most of Matheson's story was jettisoned in order to build...

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Somewhere in time

Bid Time Return is a 1975 science fiction novel by Richard Matheson. It concerns a man from the 1970s who travels back in time to court a 19th century stage actress whose photograph has captivated him. The title comes from a line in Shakespeare's...

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  • Feb 24, 1975

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ISFDB ID:

  • 2362

The Shrinking Man

Copyright date:

  • 1956

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ISFDB ID:

  • 6610

Hunted past reason

Copyright date:

  • Jul 2002

ISFDB ID:

  • 24443

Darker Places

Copyright date:

  • Apr 2004

ISFDB ID:

  • 156149

Richard Matheson's Kolchak Scripts

Copyright date:

  • Jan 2004

ISFDB ID:

  • 153987

7 Steps to Midnight

Copyright date:

  • 1993

ISFDB ID:

  • 16512

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Passion Play

Copyright date:

  • 1992

ISFDB ID:

  • 4847

Now You See It . . .

Copyright date:

  • 1995

ISFDB ID:

  • 16513

Richard Matheson: Collected Stories, Vol. 3

Copyright date:

  • 1988

ISFDB ID:

  • 961389

The Link

Copyright date:

  • Mar 30, 2006

ISFDB ID:

  • 180934

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Unrealized Dreams

Copyright date:

  • Sep 2004

ISFDB ID:

  • 153143

Nightmare at 20,000 feet

Copyright date:

  • 2002

ISFDB ID:

  • 29873

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The Incredible Shrinking Man

Copyright date:

  • 1995

ISFDB ID:

  • 38529

Duel & the Distributor: Stories & Screenplays

Copyright date:

  • Oct 2004

ISFDB ID:

  • 157632

Button, Button: Uncanny Stories

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  • Apr 1, 2008

ISFDB ID:

  • 714861

Off Beat

Copyright date:

  • 2002

ISFDB ID:

  • 932604

Camp Pleasant

Copyright date:

  • 2001

ISFDB ID:

  • 22026

Shock II

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  • 1964

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ISFDB ID:

  • 25787

Shock III

Copyright date:

  • 1966

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ISFDB ID:

  • 25788

Abu and the Seven Marvels

Copyright date:

  • 2001

ISFDB ID:

  • 33328

The Shores of Space

Copyright date:

  • 1957

ISFDB ID:

  • 39756

Third from the Sun

Copyright date:

  • 1955

ISFDB ID:

  • 39757
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