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I Am Legend: The chilling horror masterpiece that you won t be able to put down
Richard Matheson
S.F. Masterworks, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Horror & ghost stories, Classic horror & ghost stories, Science fiction, Classic science fiction
'It is by turns, scary, thrilling, tragic, witty and - ultimately - uplifting' - James Lovegrove
Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth ... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood.
By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.
How long can one man survive like this?
Winner of the Bram Stoker Prize for Vampire Novel of the Century, I Am Legend is a stunning blend of science fiction and horror.
'The most clever and riveting vampire novel since Dracula' - Dean Koontz
'Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me' - Stephen King
'It is, by turns, scary, thrilling, tragic, witty and - ultimately - uplifting' - James Lovegrove
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Praise for I Am Legend: The chilling horror masterpiece that you won t be able to put down
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I think the author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson. Books like I AM LEGEND were an inspiration to me - Stephen King
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Pulls off that difficult trick of marrying two genres, in this case horror and SF. It is by turns, scary, thrilling, tragic, witty and - ultimately - uplifting - James Lovegrove
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The most clever and riveting vampire novel since DRACULA - Dean R. Koontz
Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson (1926-2013)
Richard Matheson was born in 1926. He began publishing SF with his short story 'Born of Man and Woman' which appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1950. I Am Legend was published in 1954 and has been adapted to film three times. Matheson wrote the script for the film The Incredible Shrinking Man, an adaptation of his second SF novel The Shrinking Man (published in 1956). The film won a Hugo award in 1958. He wrote many screenplays (including The Fall of the House of Usher) as well as episodes of The Twilight Zone. He continued to write short stories and novels, some of which formed the basis for film scripts, including Duel, directed by Steven Spielberg in 1971. Further SF short stories were collected in The Shores of Space (1957) and Shock! (1961). His other novels include Hell House (1971) (filmed as The Legend of Hell House in 1973), Bid Time Return (1975), Earthbound (1982) and Journal of the Gun Years (1992). A film of his novel What Dreams May Come (1978) was released in 1998, starring Robin Williams. A collection of his stories from the 1950s and 1960s was released in 1989 as Richard Matheson: Collected Stories. He died in 2013.
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