Richard Matheson
Richard Burton Matheson
(b.1926)
Other Matheson links:
Sci-Fi Masters: Richard Matheson
Tor: About Richard Matheson
Bio:
Born in Allendale, 20th of February. Worked extensively in
TV and film, including
among others the classic Twilight Zone episode
"Little Girl Lost".
His son, Richard Christian Matheson is also a writer with one book to
his name so far (Created By).
Bibliography:
- Bid Time Return
- 1975
- Born of Man and Woman
- Short story collection (aka Third from the Sun?)
- June 1991, Buccaneer Books Hardcover ISBN:0-899-66837-2
- Darker: Three Novels of Suspense
- June 1988, Scream Press Hardcover ISBN:0-910-48905-X
- Earthbound
- August 1994, Tor Books ISBN:0-312-85712-8
- August 1995, Tor Books Mass Market Paperback Reprint Edition ISBN:0-812-54810-8
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- Fury on Sunday
- 1953
- Hellhouse
- 1971
- I Am Legend
- Collection of one novella and ten short stories (?)
- 1954
- Filmed in 1964 as
The Last Man on Earth.
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from reel.com
Remade in 1971 as
The Omega Man
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from reel.com. A new version possibly staring Schwarzenegger is being made.
- 1954, Fawcet Gold Medal
- July 1995, Tor Books Paperback ISBN:0-812-52300-8
- February 1996, Buccaneer Books Hardcover Reprint Edition ISBN:0-899-66838-0
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- October 1997, Tor Books Paperback ISBN:0-312-86504-X
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- Richard Matheson: Collected Stories
- 1989, Scream Press
- September 1993, Scream Press Hardcover ISBN:0-910-48910-6
- Seven Steps to Midnight
- January 1995, Tor Books Mass Market Paperback Reprint Edition ISBN:0-812-55057-9
- Shock
- Short story collection
- 1961
- Shock II
- 1964
- Short story collection
- Shock III
- 1966
- Short story collection
- Shock Waves
- Short story collection
- 1970
- The Shores of Space
- anthology
- 1957
- The Shrinking Man
- Made into a
film in 1957.
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- Somewhere in Time
- Made into a film
in 1980 starring Chrisopher Reeve and Jane Seymour.
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- July 1985, Ballantine Books ISBN:0-345-33111-7
- A Stir of Echoes
- 1958
- What Dreams May Come
- Apparently being made into a film.
- 1978
- "Born of Man and Woman"
- 1950
- "Brother to the Machine"
- November 1952, If
- "Buried Talents"
- "Death Ship"
- Basis for the Twilight Zone episode of the same title.
- March 1953, Fantastic Story Magazine
- "Dissapearing Act"
- Basis for the Twilight Zone episode "And When the Sky Was Opened"
- March 1953, F&SF
- The Foodlegger
- April 1952, Thrilling Wonder Stories
- "Girl Of My Dreams"
- October 1963, F&SF
- "I Am Legend"
- novella
- "Little Girl Lost"
- Basis for the Twilight Zone episode of the same title.
- November 1953, Amazing Stories
- "Mute"
- Basis for the Twilight Zone episode of the same title.
- 1962 in The Fiend in You
- "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"
- Basis for the Twilight Zone episode of the same title.
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- 1961 in Alone by Night
- "Prey"
- Basis for "The Zuni Fetish Doll" in the film
Trilogy of Terror
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- "Sorry, Right Number"
- Basis for the Twilight Zone episode "Night Call"
- November 1953, Beyond
- "Steel"
- Basis for the Twilight Zone episode of the same title.
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- May 1965, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- "Third From the Sun"
- Basis for the Twilight Zone episode of the same title.
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- October 1950, Galaxy
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