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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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Filter this CollectionI 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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- 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
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- Sep 1978
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- 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.
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- 1958
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- 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
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- 1950
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- 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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- 2362