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Richard Matheson

By far, Richard Matheson is my absolute favorite author, but I never have any news about himself, or his projects. His last book was "Hunted Past Reason" in 2001, since then I haven't heard anything. Has anyone else?


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I guess not. Does anyone here like his books? Or even heard of him?


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i am legend' is awesome

if u can reccomend some more then i would be grateful


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"I Am Legend" is a classic. Matheson has a talent for short stories, both horror and sci-fi. One collection of short stories is called "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", and it has some bad ass stories therein. You've probably watched more than one of the movie adaptations of his books. "Stir of Echoes" (Kevin Bacon) is one of them. Remember that episode (or sequence from the movie) of The Twilight Zone where the man is on the airplane and sees the gremlin on the wing, but nobody believes him? That is Matheson's work. The Shrinking Man is also a great one, as is Duel. Remember Duel? Thats the story about the man in the car "battling" a rogue 18 wheeler. It was also the very first movie that Steven Spielberg directed. He also has a knack for romance novels, both of which were made into movies, Somewhere in Time (Christopher Reeve & Jane Seymore) and What Dreams May Come (Robin Williams & Cuba Gooding Jr.). His most recent novel in "Hunted Past Reason", a suspense thriller novel about two men hiking in the deep wilderness of Yellowstone Park, and one hiker "snaps" and psychotically and sadistically chases and tortures the other hiker. My personal favorite is "Hell House", the grand daddy KING of haunted house novels. This is one of the few books I have ever read that actually made me sleep with my lights on. You won't be disappointed by any of Matheson's novels you read. Period! smile


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sweet i'll check em out


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*bump*

Just wanyed to let y'all know:

I just read his latest novel, "Woman", and I was sorely disappointed.


Still, I recommend Matheson to anyone who is a sci-fi/horror fan fan.


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I Am Legend was a very good book.. left me disappointed by the film but that is for another thread.

I was totally absorbed in I Am Legend though it was very well written.


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Meh. I thought the I Am Legend book was a take-it-or-leave-it kind of thing.

And I read it after I saw the movie, which I enjoyed immensely.


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Meh. I thought the I Am Legend book was a take-it-or-leave-it kind of thing.

And I read it after I saw the movie, which I enjoyed immensely.


it was the other way round for me.. I read the book before seeing the movie which left me disappointed with the film.


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The book really isn't the great work it's been made out to be, in this thread. The movie's not a gem either, it was alright, but not great. Same goes for the book, it's basically a modern Romantic novel, that borrows from works of the Romantic and Gothic eras.


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