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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86" title="ريتشارد ماثيسون – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ريتشارد ماثيسون" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ri%C3%A7ard_Metison" title="Riçard Metison – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Riçard Metison" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%85%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86" title="ریچارد متیسون – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="ریچارد متیسون" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8A%D0%BD" title="Ричард Матисън – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Ричард Матисън" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%85%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86" title="ریچارد متیسون – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ریچارد متیسون" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-got mw-list-item"><a href="https://got.wikipedia.org/wiki/%F0%90%8D%82%F0%90%8C%B9%F0%90%8D%84%F0%90%8D%83%F0%90%8C%BE%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8D%82%F0%90%8C%B3_%F0%90%8C%BC%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8C%B8%F0%90%8C%B4%F0%90%8D%83%F0%90%8D%89%F0%90%8C%BD" title="𐍂𐌹𐍄𐍃𐌾𐌰𐍂𐌳 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌴𐍃𐍉𐌽 – Gothic" lang="got" hreflang="got" data-title="𐍂𐌹𐍄𐍃𐌾𐌰𐍂𐌳 𐌼𐌰𐌸𐌴𐍃𐍉𐌽" data-language-autonym="𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺" data-language-local-name="Gothic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A6%AC%EC%B2%98%EB%93%9C_%EB%A7%A4%EB%93%9C%EC%8A%A8" title="리처드 매드슨 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="리처드 매드슨" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8C%D5%AB%D5%B9%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A4_%D5%84%D5%A5%D5%A9%D5%BD%D5%B8%D5%B6" title="Ռիչարդ Մեթսոն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ռիչարդ Մեթսոն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A6%27%D7%A8%D7%93_%D7%9E%D7%AA%27%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F" title="ריצ'רד מת'סון – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ריצ'רד מת'סון" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%A9%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%93_%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%97%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98" title="რიჩარდ მეთისონი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="რიჩარდ მეთისონი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86" title="ريتشارد ماثيسون – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ريتشارد ماثيسون" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B9%E3%83%B3" title="リチャード・マシスン – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="リチャード・マシスン" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Richard Matheson" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a 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div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Richard Matheson</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Richard_Matheson.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Matheson in 2008"><img alt="Matheson in 2008" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Richard_Matheson.jpg/220px-Richard_Matheson.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Richard_Matheson.jpg/330px-Richard_Matheson.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Richard_Matheson.jpg/440px-Richard_Matheson.jpg 2x" data-file-width="661" data-file-height="881" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.4em;">Matheson in 2008</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Richard Burton Matheson<br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1926-02-20</span>)</span>February 20, 1926<br /><a href="/wiki/Allendale,_New_Jersey" title="Allendale, New Jersey">Allendale, New Jersey</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">June 23, 2013<span style="display:none">(2013-06-23)</span> (aged 87)<br /><a href="/wiki/Calabasas,_California" title="Calabasas, California">Calabasas, California</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Pen name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname" style="line-height:1.4em;">Logan Swanson<sup id="cite_ref-isfdb_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isfdb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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"counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <ul><li>Novelist</li> <li>short story writer</li> <li>screenwriter</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Missouri" title="University of Missouri">University of Missouri</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Period</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">1950–2013</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">Science fiction, fantasy, horror</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(novel)" title="I Am Legend (novel)">I Am Legend</a></i></li><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Shrinking_Man" title="The Shrinking Man">The Shrinking Man</a></i></li><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Stir_of_Echoes" title="A Stir of Echoes">A Stir of Echoes</a></i></li><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hell_House_(novel)" title="Hell House (novel)">Hell House</a> </i></li><li><i><a href="/wiki/What_Dreams_May_Come_(Matheson_novel)" title="What Dreams May Come (Matheson novel)">What Dreams May Come</a></i></li><li><i><a href="/wiki/Bid_Time_Return" title="Bid Time Return">Bid Time Return</a></i></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable awards</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, Science Fiction Hall of Fame (2010)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Ruth Ann Woodson</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1952)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">4</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="skin-invert-image" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:RichardMatheson.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/RichardMatheson.png/150px-RichardMatheson.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="35" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/RichardMatheson.png/225px-RichardMatheson.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/RichardMatheson.png/300px-RichardMatheson.png 2x" data-file-width="930" data-file-height="220" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Richard Burton Matheson</b> (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. </p><p>He is best known as the author of <i><a href="/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(novel)" title="I Am Legend (novel)">I Am Legend</a></i>, a 1954 <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_horror" class="mw-redirect" title="Science fiction horror">science fiction horror</a> novel that has been adapted for the screen three times. Matheson himself was co-writer of the first film version, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_(1964_film)" title="The Last Man on Earth (1964 film)">The Last Man on Earth</a></i>, starring <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Price" title="Vincent Price">Vincent Price</a>, which was released in 1964. The other two adaptations were <i><a href="/wiki/The_Omega_Man" title="The Omega Man">The Omega Man</a></i>, starring <a href="/wiki/Charlton_Heston" title="Charlton Heston">Charlton Heston</a>, and <i><a href="/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(film)" title="I Am Legend (film)">I Am Legend</a></i>, with <a href="/wiki/Will_Smith" title="Will Smith">Will Smith</a>. Matheson also wrote 16 television episodes of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone" title="The Twilight Zone">The Twilight Zone</a></i>, including "<a href="/wiki/Nightmare_at_20,000_Feet" title="Nightmare at 20,000 Feet">Nightmare at 20,000 Feet</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Little_Girl_Lost_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Little Girl Lost (The Twilight Zone)">Little Girl Lost</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Steel_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Steel (The Twilight Zone)">Steel</a>", as well as several adaptations of <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a> stories for <a href="/wiki/Roger_Corman" title="Roger Corman">Roger Corman</a> and <a href="/wiki/American_International_Pictures" title="American International Pictures">American International Pictures</a> – <i><a href="/wiki/House_of_Usher_(film)" title="House of Usher (film)">House of Usher</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Pit_and_the_Pendulum_(1961_film)" title="The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film)">The Pit and the Pendulum</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Tales_of_Terror" title="Tales of Terror">Tales of Terror</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Raven_(1963_film)" title="The Raven (1963 film)">The Raven</a></i>. He adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" as a screenplay, directed by <a href="/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a> as <a href="/wiki/Duel_(1971_film)" title="Duel (1971 film)">the television film of the same name</a> that year. </p><p>In addition to <i>I Am Legend</i> and <i>Duel</i>, nine more of his novels and short stories have been adapted as motion pictures: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Shrinking_Man" title="The Shrinking Man">The Shrinking Man</a></i> (filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Incredible_Shrinking_Man" title="The Incredible Shrinking Man">The Incredible Shrinking Man</a></i>), <i><a href="/wiki/Hell_House_(novel)" title="Hell House (novel)">Hell House</a></i> (filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Legend_of_Hell_House" title="The Legend of Hell House">The Legend of Hell House</a></i>), <i><a href="/wiki/What_Dreams_May_Come_(Matheson_novel)" title="What Dreams May Come (Matheson novel)">What Dreams May Come</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Bid_Time_Return" title="Bid Time Return">Bid Time Return</a></i> (filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/Somewhere_in_Time_(film)" title="Somewhere in Time (film)">Somewhere in Time</a></i>), <i><a href="/wiki/A_Stir_of_Echoes" title="A Stir of Echoes">A Stir of Echoes</a></i>, "Steel" (filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/Real_Steel" title="Real Steel">Real Steel</a></i>), and "<a href="/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)#Short_story" title="Button, Button (The Twilight Zone)">Button, Button</a>" (filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Box_(2009_film)" title="The Box (2009 film)">The Box</a></i>). The movie <i><a href="/wiki/Cold_Sweat_(1970_film)" title="Cold Sweat (1970 film)">Cold Sweat</a></i> was based on his novel <i>Ride the Nightmare</i>, and <i>Les seins de glace</i> (<i><a href="/wiki/Icy_Breasts" title="Icy Breasts">Icy Breasts</a></i>) was based on his novel <i>Someone Is Bleeding</i>. Both "Steel" and "Button" had previously been episodes of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone" title="The Twilight Zone">The Twilight Zone</a></i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Matheson was born in <a href="/wiki/Allendale,_New_Jersey" title="Allendale, New Jersey">Allendale, New Jersey</a>, to Norwegian immigrants Bertolf and Fanny Matheson. They divorced when he was eight, and he was raised in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, New York, by his mother. His early writing influences were the film <i><a href="/wiki/Dracula_(1931_English-language_film)" title="Dracula (1931 English-language film)">Dracula</a></i> (1931), novels by <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Roberts_(author)" title="Kenneth Roberts (author)">Kenneth Roberts</a>, and a poem which he read in the newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Eagle" title="Brooklyn Eagle">Brooklyn Eagle</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-biography.com_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-biography.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he published his first short story at age eight.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He entered <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Technical_High_School" title="Brooklyn Technical High School">Brooklyn Technical High School</a> in 1939, graduated in 1943, and served with the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">Army</a> in Europe during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>; this formed the basis for his 1960 novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Beardless_Warriors" title="The Beardless Warriors">The Beardless Warriors</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-biography.com_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-biography.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He attended the <a href="/wiki/Missouri_School_of_Journalism" title="Missouri School of Journalism">Missouri School of Journalism</a> at the University of Missouri, earning his BA in 1949, then moved to California.<sup id="cite_ref-biography.com_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-biography.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1950s_and_1960s">1950s and 1960s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1950s and 1960s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>His first-written novel, <i>Hunger and Thirst</i>, was ignored by publishers for several decades before eventually being published in 2010, but his short story "<a href="/wiki/Born_of_Man_and_Woman" title="Born of Man and Woman">Born of Man and Woman</a>" was published in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Magazine_of_Fantasy_%26_Science_Fiction" title="The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction">The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction</a>'</i>s summer 1950 issue, the new quarterly's third issue,<sup id="cite_ref-isfdb_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isfdb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and attracted attention.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is the tale of a monstrous child chained by its parents in the cellar, written in the form of the creature's diary and using non-<a href="/wiki/Idiom_(language_structure)" title="Idiom (language structure)">idiomatic</a> English. Later that year, Matheson placed stories in the first and third issues of <i><a href="/wiki/Galaxy_Science_Fiction" title="Galaxy Science Fiction">Galaxy Science Fiction</a></i>, a new monthly.<sup id="cite_ref-isfdb_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isfdb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His first anthology of work was published in 1954.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 1950 and 1971, he produced dozens of stories, frequently blending elements of the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres. </p><p>He was a member of the "Southern California Sorcerers" group in the 1950s and 1960s, a collective of west coast writers which included <a href="/wiki/Charles_Beaumont" title="Charles Beaumont">Charles Beaumont</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ray_Bradbury" title="Ray Bradbury">Ray Bradbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Clayton_Johnson" title="George Clayton Johnson">George Clayton Johnson</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_F._Nolan" title="William F. Nolan">William F. Nolan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Sohl" title="Jerry Sohl">Jerry Sohl</a>, and others.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Matheson's first novel to be published, <i>Someone Is Bleeding</i>, appeared from Lion Books in 1953.<sup id="cite_ref-isfdb_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isfdb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1950s, he published a handful of <a href="/wiki/Western_(genre)" title="Western (genre)">Western</a> stories (later collected in <i>By the Gun</i>), and in the 1990s, he published Western novels such as <i>Journal of the Gun Years</i>, <i>The Gunfight</i>, <i>The Memoirs of <a href="/wiki/%22Wild_Bill%22_Hickok" class="mw-redirect" title=""Wild Bill" Hickok">Wild Bill Hickok</a></i>, and <i>Shadow on the Sun</i>. </p><p>His other early novels include <i><a href="/wiki/The_Shrinking_Man" title="The Shrinking Man">The Shrinking Man</a></i> (1956, filmed in 1957 as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Incredible_Shrinking_Man" title="The Incredible Shrinking Man">The Incredible Shrinking Man</a></i>, again from Matheson's own screenplay) and a science fiction <a href="/wiki/Vampire" title="Vampire">vampire</a> novel, <i><a href="/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(novel)" title="I Am Legend (novel)">I Am Legend</a></i> (1954, filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_(1964_film)" title="The Last Man on Earth (1964 film)">The Last Man on Earth</a></i> in 1964, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Omega_Man" title="The Omega Man">The Omega Man</a></i> in 1971, and <i><a href="/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(film)" title="I Am Legend (film)">I Am Legend</a></i> in 2007). In 1960, Matheson published <i>The Beardless Warriors</i>, a non-fantastic, autobiographical novel about teenage American soldiers in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. It was filmed in 1967 as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Young_Warriors_(film)" title="The Young Warriors (film)">The Young Warriors</a></i>, though most of Matheson's plot was jettisoned. </p><p>Matheson wrote teleplays for several television programs, including the <a href="/wiki/Western_fiction" title="Western fiction">Westerns</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Cheyenne_(1955_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cheyenne (1955 TV series)">Cheyenne</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Have_Gun_%E2%80%93_Will_Travel" title="Have Gun – Will Travel">Have Gun – Will Travel</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Lawman_(TV_series)" title="Lawman (TV series)">Lawman</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also wrote the <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series" title="Star Trek: The Original Series">Star Trek</a></i> episode "<a href="/wiki/The_Enemy_Within_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)" title="The Enemy Within (Star Trek: The Original Series)">The Enemy Within</a>" (1966). However, he is most closely associated with the American TV series <i><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone_(1959_TV_series)" title="The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)">The Twilight Zone</a></i>, for which he wrote more than a dozen episodes,<sup id="cite_ref-NYTObit_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTObit-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including "<a href="/wiki/Steel_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Steel (The Twilight Zone)">Steel</a>" (1963), "<a href="/wiki/Nightmare_at_20,000_Feet" title="Nightmare at 20,000 Feet">Nightmare at 20,000 Feet</a>" (1963), "<a href="/wiki/Little_Girl_Lost_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Little Girl Lost (The Twilight Zone)">Little Girl Lost</a>" (1962), and "<a href="/wiki/Death_Ship_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Death Ship (The Twilight Zone)">Death Ship</a>" (1963). For all of his <i>Twilight Zone</i> scripts, Matheson wrote the introductory and closing statements spoken by creator <a href="/wiki/Rod_Serling" title="Rod Serling">Rod Serling</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He adapted five works of <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a> for <a href="/wiki/Roger_Corman" title="Roger Corman">Roger Corman</a>'s Poe series, including <i><a href="/wiki/House_of_Usher_(film)" title="House of Usher (film)">House of Usher</a></i> (1960), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Pit_and_the_Pendulum_(1961_film)" title="The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film)">The Pit and the Pendulum</a> (1961)</i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Raven_(1963_film)" title="The Raven (1963 film)">The Raven</a></i> (1963).<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was one of the key screenwriters in Corman's career.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For <a href="/wiki/Hammer_Film_Productions" title="Hammer Film Productions">Hammer Film Productions</a>, he wrote the screenplay for <i><a href="/wiki/Fanatic_(film)" title="Fanatic (film)">Fanatic</a></i> (1965; US title: <i>Die! Die! My Darling!</i>), starring <a href="/wiki/Tallulah_Bankhead" title="Tallulah Bankhead">Tallulah Bankhead</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stefanie_Powers" title="Stefanie Powers">Stefanie Powers</a> and based on the novel <i>Nightmare</i> by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Linington" title="Elizabeth Linington">Anne Blaisdell</a>; he also adapted for Hammer <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Wheatley" title="Dennis Wheatley">Dennis Wheatley</a>'s <i>The Devil Rides Out</i> (1968).<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1970s_and_1980s">1970s and 1980s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1970s and 1980s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1971, Mattheson's short story "Duel" was adapted into the <a href="/wiki/Duel_(1971_film)" title="Duel (1971 film)">TV movie of the same name</a>. In 1973, Matheson earned an <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Edgar Award">Edgar Award</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Mystery_Writers_of_America" title="Mystery Writers of America">Mystery Writers of America</a> for his teleplay for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Night_Stalker_(1972_film)" title="The Night Stalker (1972 film)">The Night Stalker</a></i> (1972), one of two TV movies written by Matheson for producer <a href="/wiki/Dan_Curtis" title="Dan Curtis">Dan Curtis</a>, the other being <i><a href="/wiki/The_Night_Strangler_(film)" title="The Night Strangler (film)">The Night Strangler</a></i> (1973), which preceded the TV series <i><a href="/wiki/Kolchak:_The_Night_Stalker" title="Kolchak: The Night Stalker">Kolchak: The Night Stalker</a></i>. Matheson worked extensively with Curtis; the 1977 television <a href="/wiki/Anthology_film" title="Anthology film">anthology film</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Dead_of_Night_(1977_film)" title="Dead of Night (1977 film)">Dead of Night</a></i> features three stories written for the screen by Matheson: "Second Chance" (based on the story by <a href="/wiki/Jack_Finney" title="Jack Finney">Jack Finney</a>); "No Such Thing as a Vampire" (based on Matheson's story of the same name); and "Bobby", an original script written for this anthology by Matheson. </p><p>Three of his short stories were filmed together as <i><a href="/wiki/Trilogy_of_Terror" title="Trilogy of Terror">Trilogy of Terror</a></i> (1975), including "Prey" (initially published in the April 1969 issue of <i><a href="/wiki/Playboy" title="Playboy">Playboy</a></i> magazine), a tale of a <a href="/wiki/Zuni_people" title="Zuni people">Zuni</a> warrior fetish doll. The doll later reappeared in the final segment of the belated sequel to the first movie, <i><a href="/wiki/Trilogy_of_Terror_II" title="Trilogy of Terror II">Trilogy of Terror II</a></i> (1996), and "Bobby" from <i>Dead of Night</i> was refilmed with different actors for the second segment of the film. </p><p>Other Matheson novels adapted into films in the 1970s include <i>Bid Time Return</i> (1975, released as <i><a href="/wiki/Somewhere_in_Time_(film)" title="Somewhere in Time (film)">Somewhere in Time</a></i> in 1980), and <i><a href="/wiki/Hell_House_(novel)" title="Hell House (novel)">Hell House</a></i> (1971, released as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Legend_of_Hell_House" title="The Legend of Hell House">The Legend of Hell House</a></i> in 1973), both adapted and scripted by Matheson himself. </p><p>In the 1980s, Matheson published the novel <i><a href="/wiki/Earthbound_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Earthbound (novel)">Earthbound</a></i>, wrote several screenplays for the TV series <i><a href="/wiki/Amazing_Stories_(1985_TV_series)" title="Amazing Stories (1985 TV series)">Amazing Stories</a></i>, and continued to publish short fiction. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1990s">1990s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1990s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Matheson published four Western novels in this decade, as well as the suspense novel <i>Seven Steps to Midnight</i> (1993) and the darkly comic <a href="/wiki/Locked-room_mystery" title="Locked-room mystery">locked-room mystery</a> novel <i>Now You See It ...</i> (1995), dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bloch" title="Robert Bloch">Robert Bloch</a>. </p><p>He also wrote the screenplays for several movies, including the comedy <i><a href="/wiki/Loose_Cannons_(1990_film)" title="Loose Cannons (1990 film)">Loose Cannons</a></i> (1990) and the television <a href="/wiki/Biographical_film" title="Biographical film">biopic</a> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Dreamer_of_Oz:_The_L._Frank_Baum_Story" title="The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story">The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story</a></i> (1990), as well as a segment of <i><a href="/wiki/Twilight_Zone:_Rod_Serling%27s_Lost_Classics" title="Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics">Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics</a></i> (1994) and segments of <i>Trilogy of Terror II</i>. Matheson continued to write short stories, and two more of his novels were adapted by others for the big screen: <i><a href="/wiki/What_Dreams_May_Come_(1978_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="What Dreams May Come (1978 novel)">What Dreams May Come</a></i> (1998) and <i><a href="/wiki/A_Stir_of_Echoes" title="A Stir of Echoes">A Stir of Echoes</a></i> (1999, as <i><a href="/wiki/Stir_of_Echoes" title="Stir of Echoes">Stir of Echoes</a></i>). In 1999, Matheson published a non-fiction work, <i>The Path</i>, inspired by his interest in psychic phenomena.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="21st_century">21st century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 21st century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many previously unpublished novels by Matheson appeared late in his career, as did various collections of his work and previously unpublished screenplays. He also wrote new works, such as the suspense novel <i>Hunted Past Reason</i> (2002)<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the children's illustrated fantasy <i><a href="/wiki/Abu_and_the_7_Marvels" title="Abu and the 7 Marvels">Abu and the 7 Marvels</a></i> (2002). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Style">Style</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Style"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Richard_Matheson" title="Special:EditPage/Richard Matheson">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">February 2023</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Several of Matheson's stories, including "<a href="/wiki/Third_from_the_Sun" title="Third from the Sun">Third from the Sun</a>" (1950), "Deadline" (1959), and "Button, Button" (1970), are simple sketches with <a href="/wiki/Twist_ending" class="mw-redirect" title="Twist ending">twist endings</a>; others, like "Trespass" (1953), "Being" (1954), and "Mute" (1962), explore their characters' dilemmas over 20 or 30 pages. Some tales, such as "The Doll that Does Everything" (1954) and "The Funeral" (1955), incorporate <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satirical</a> humor at the expense of genre clichés, and are written in bombastic prose that differed from Matheson's usual pared-down style. Others, like "The Test" (1954) and "Steel" (1956), portray the moral and physical struggles of ordinary people, rather than those of scientists and superheroes, in situations which are at once futuristic and quotidian. Still others, such as "Mad House" (1953), "The Curious Child" (1954) and "Duel" (1971), are tales of <a href="/wiki/Paranoia" title="Paranoia">paranoia</a>, in which the commonplace environment of the present day becomes inexplicably alien or threatening. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sources_of_inspiration">Sources of inspiration</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Sources of inspiration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Matheson cited specific inspirations for many of his works. <i>Duel</i> was derived from an incident in which he and friend Jerry Sohl were dangerously tailgated by a large truck on the same day as the <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy" title="Assassination of John F. Kennedy">assassination of John F. Kennedy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Film_criticism" title="Film criticism">film critic</a> <a href="/wiki/Roger_Ebert" title="Roger Ebert">Roger Ebert</a>, Matheson's scientific approach to the supernatural in <i>I Am Legend</i> and other novels from the 1950s and early 1960s "anticipated pseudorealistic fantasy novels like <i><a href="/wiki/Rosemary%27s_Baby_(novel)" title="Rosemary's Baby (novel)">Rosemary's Baby</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Exorcist_(novel)" title="The Exorcist (novel)">The Exorcist</a></i>."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life_and_death">Personal life and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Personal life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1952, Matheson married Ruth Ann Woodson, whom he met in California. They had four children:<sup id="cite_ref-biography.com_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-biography.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bettina Mayberry, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Christian_Matheson" title="Richard Christian Matheson">Richard Christian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chris_Matheson_(screenwriter)" title="Chris Matheson (screenwriter)">Christopher Matheson</a> and Ali Marie Matheson. Richard, Chris, and Ali became writers of fiction and screenplays.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Matheson died on June 23, 2013, at his home in <a href="/wiki/Calabasas,_California" title="Calabasas, California">Calabasas, California</a>, at the age of 87.<sup id="cite_ref-locus_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-locus-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-kellogg_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kellogg-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-skynews_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-skynews-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-washingtonpost/richard-matheson-87_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-washingtonpost/richard-matheson-87-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Matheson received the <a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award_for_Life_Achievement" class="mw-redirect" title="World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement">World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement</a> in 1984 and the <a href="/wiki/Bram_Stoker_Award_for_Lifetime_Achievement" title="Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement">Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Horror_Writers_Association" title="Horror Writers Association">Horror Writers Association</a> in 1991. The <a href="/wiki/EMP_Museum#Science_Fiction_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="EMP Museum">Science Fiction Hall of Fame</a> inducted him in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-SFAwards_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFAwards-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sfhof2010_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sfhof2010-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the annual <a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Convention" title="World Fantasy Convention">World Fantasy Conventions</a>, he won two judged, annual literary awards for particular works: World Fantasy Awards for <i>Bid Time Return</i> as the best novel of 1975 and <i>Richard Matheson: Collected Stories</i> as the best collection of 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-SFAwards_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SFAwards-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Matheson died just days before he was due to receive the Visionary Award at the 39th <a href="/wiki/Saturn_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Saturn Award">Saturn Awards</a> ceremony. As a tribute, the ceremony was dedicated to him and the award was presented posthumously. Academy president Robert Holguin said, "Richard's accomplishments will live on forever in the imaginations of everyone who read or saw his inspired and inimitable work."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Influence">Influence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Influence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_writers">Other writers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Other writers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a> has listed Matheson as a creative influence, and his novels <i><a href="/wiki/Cell_(novel)" title="Cell (novel)">Cell</a></i> (2006) and <i><a href="/wiki/Elevation_(novella)" title="Elevation (novella)">Elevation</a></i> (2018) are dedicated to Matheson, along with filmmaker <a href="/wiki/George_A._Romero" title="George A. Romero">George A. Romero</a>. Romero frequently acknowledged Matheson as an inspiration and listed the shambling vampire creatures that appear in <i>The Last Man on Earth</i>, the first film version of <i>I Am Legend</i>, as the inspiration for the zombie "ghouls" he envisioned in <i><a href="/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead" title="Night of the Living Dead">Night of the Living Dead</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Anne_Rice" title="Anne Rice">Anne Rice</a> stated that Matheson's short story "Dress of White Silk" was an early influence on her interest in vampires and fantasy fiction.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Directors">Directors</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Directors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> After his death, several figures offered tributes to his life and work. Director <a href="/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a> said: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Richard Matheson's ironic and iconic imagination created seminal science-fiction stories and gave me my first break when he wrote the short story and screenplay for <i>Duel</i>. His <i>Twilight Zone</i>s were among my favorites, and he recently worked with us on <i><a href="/wiki/Real_Steel" title="Real Steel">Real Steel</a></i>. For me, he is in the same category as <a href="/wiki/Ray_Bradbury" title="Ray Bradbury">Bradbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Asimov</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p> Another frequent collaborator, <a href="/wiki/Roger_Corman" title="Roger Corman">Roger Corman</a>, said: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Richard Matheson was a close friend and the best screenwriter I ever worked with. I always shot his first draft. I will miss him.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>On Twitter, director <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Wright" title="Edgar Wright">Edgar Wright</a> wrote, "If it's true that the great Richard Matheson has passed away, 140 characters can't begin to cover what he has given the sci fi & horror genre." Director <a href="/wiki/Richard_Kelly_(director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Kelly (director)">Richard Kelly</a> added, "I loved Richard Matheson's writing and it was a huge honor getting to adapt his story 'Button, Button' into a film. RIP."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works"><span class="anchor" id="Bibliography"></span> Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ul><li><i>Someone Is Bleeding</i> (1953); filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/Icy_Breasts" title="Icy Breasts">Icy Breasts</a></i></li> <li><i>Fury on Sunday</i> (1953)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(novel)" title="I Am Legend (novel)">I Am Legend</a></i> (1954); filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_(1964_film)" title="The Last Man on Earth (1964 film)">The Last Man on Earth</a></i> (1964), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Omega_Man" title="The Omega Man">The Omega Man</a></i> (1971), <i><a href="/wiki/I_Am_Omega" title="I Am Omega">I Am Omega</a></i> (2007) and <i><a href="/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(film)" title="I Am Legend (film)">I Am Legend</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Shrinking_Man" title="The Shrinking Man">The Shrinking Man</a></i> (1956); filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Incredible_Shrinking_Man" title="The Incredible Shrinking Man">The Incredible Shrinking Man</a></i> (1957) and subsequently reprinted under that title; also the basis of the film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Incredible_Shrinking_Woman" title="The Incredible Shrinking Woman">The Incredible Shrinking Woman</a></i> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Stir_of_Echoes" title="A Stir of Echoes">A Stir of Echoes</a></i> (1958); filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/Stir_of_Echoes" title="Stir of Echoes">Stir of Echoes</a></i> (1999)</li> <li><i>Ride the Nightmare</i> (1959); adapted as an episode of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Alfred_Hitchcock_Hour" class="mw-redirect" title="The Alfred Hitchcock Hour">The Alfred Hitchcock Hour</a></i> and later filmed as <a href="/wiki/Cold_Sweat_(1970_film)" title="Cold Sweat (1970 film)"><i>Cold Sweat</i></a> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Beardless_Warriors" title="The Beardless Warriors">The Beardless Warriors</a></i> (1960); filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Young_Warriors_(film)" title="The Young Warriors (film)">The Young Warriors</a></i> (1967)</li> <li><i>The Comedy of Terrors</i> (1964); adapted by Elsie Lee from Matheson's screenplay, filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Comedy_of_Terrors" title="The Comedy of Terrors">The Comedy of Terrors</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hell_House_(novel)" title="Hell House (novel)">Hell House</a></i> (1971); filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Legend_of_Hell_House" title="The Legend of Hell House">The Legend of Hell House</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bid_Time_Return" title="Bid Time Return">Bid Time Return</a></i> (1975); filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/Somewhere_in_Time_(film)" title="Somewhere in Time (film)">Somewhere in Time</a></i> (1980) and subsequently reprinted under that title</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/What_Dreams_May_Come_(1978_novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="What Dreams May Come (1978 novel)">What Dreams May Come</a></i> (1978); filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/What_Dreams_May_Come_(film)" title="What Dreams May Come (film)">What Dreams May Come</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i>Earthbound</i> (Playboy Publications, 1982), as by Logan Swanson<sup id="cite_ref-isfdb_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-isfdb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – editorially abridged version; restored text published as by Richard Matheson, UK: Robinson Books, 1989</li> <li><i>Journal of the Gun Years</i> (1992)</li> <li><i>The Gunfight</i> (1993)</li> <li><i>7 Steps to Midnight</i> (1993)</li> <li><i>Shadow on the Sun</i> (1994)</li> <li><i>Now You See It ...</i> (1995)</li> <li><i>The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok</i> (1996)</li> <li><i>Passion Play</i> (2000)</li> <li><i>Hunger and Thirst</i> (2000)</li> <li><i>Camp Pleasant</i> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Abu_and_the_Seven_Marvels" class="mw-redirect" title="Abu and the Seven Marvels">Abu and the Seven Marvels</a></i> (2002)</li> <li><i>Hunted Past Reason</i> (2002)</li> <li><i>Come Fygures, Come Shadowes</i> (2003)</li> <li><i>Woman</i> (2005)</li> <li><i>The Link</i> (2006)</li> <li><i>Other Kingdoms</i> (2011)</li> <li><i>Generations</i> (2012)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kolchak:_The_Night_Stalker" title="Kolchak: The Night Stalker">Kolchak: The Night Stalker</a>: Nightkillers</i> (2017); co-written by Chuck Miller, based on an unfilmed teleplay for the TV series</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Short_stories">Short stories</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Short stories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Born_of_Man_and_Woman" title="Born of Man and Woman">Born of Man and Woman</a>" (1950)</li> <li>"Third from the Sun" (1950); adapted as a <i><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone" title="The Twilight Zone">Twilight Zone</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Third_from_the_Sun" title="Third from the Sun">episode</a> (1960)</li> <li>"The Waker Dreams" (a.k.a. "When the Waker Sleeps") (1950)</li> <li>"Blood Son" (1951)</li> <li>"Through Channels" (1951)</li> <li>"Clothes Make the Man" (1951)</li> <li>"Return" (1951)</li> <li>"The Thing" (1951)</li> <li>"Witch War" (1951)</li> <li>"Dress of White Silk" (1951)</li> <li>"F---" (a.k.a. "The Foodlegger") (1952)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1952-07/Galaxy_1952_07#page/n85/mode/2up">"Shipshape Home"</a> (1952)</li> <li>"SRL Ad" (1952)</li> <li>"Advance Notice" (a.k.a. "Letter to the Editor") (1952)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1952-05/Galaxy_1952_05#page/n75/mode/2up">"Lover, When You're Near Me"</a> (1952)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/1952-11_IF/page/n57/mode/2up">"Brother to the Machine"</a> (1952)</li> <li>"To Fit the Crime" (1952)</li> <li>"The Wedding" (1953)</li> <li>"Wet Straw" (1953)</li> <li>"Long Distance Call" (a.k.a. "Sorry, Right Number") (1953)</li> <li>"Slaughter House" (1953)</li> <li>"Mad House" (1953)</li> <li>"The Last Day" (1953)</li> <li>"Lazarus II" (1953)</li> <li>"Legion of Plotters" (1953)</li> <li>"Death Ship" (1953); adapted as a <i><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone" title="The Twilight Zone">Twilight Zone</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Death_Ship_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Death Ship (The Twilight Zone)">episode</a> (1963)</li> <li>"Disappearing Act" (1953); adapted as a <i><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone" title="The Twilight Zone">Twilight Zone</a></i> <a href="/wiki/And_When_the_Sky_Was_Opened" title="And When the Sky Was Opened">episode</a> (1959)</li> <li>"The Disinheritors" (1953)</li> <li>"Dying Room Only" (1953)</li> <li>"Full Circle" (1953)</li> <li>"Mother by Protest" (a.k.a. "Trespass") (1953)</li> <li>"Little Girl Lost" (1953); adapted as a <i><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone" title="The Twilight Zone">Twilight Zone</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Little_Girl_Lost_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Little Girl Lost (The Twilight Zone)">episode</a> (1962)</li> <li>"Being" (1954)</li> <li>"The Curious Child" (1954)</li> <li>"When Day Is Dun" (1954)</li> <li>"Dance of the Dead" (1954); adapted as a <i><a href="/wiki/Masters_of_Horror" title="Masters of Horror">Masters of Horror</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Dance_of_the_Dead_(Masters_of_Horror)" title="Dance of the Dead (Masters of Horror)">episode</a> (2005)</li> <li>"The Man Who Made the World" (1954)</li> <li>"The Traveller" (1954)</li> <li>"The Test" (1954)</li> <li>"The Conqueror" (1954)</li> <li>"Dear Diary" (1954)</li> <li>"The Doll That Does Everything" (1954)</li> <li>"Descent" (1954)</li> <li>"Miss Stardust" (1955)</li> <li>"The Funeral" (1955); adapted as story segment for Rod Serling's <i><a href="/wiki/Night_Gallery" title="Night Gallery">Night Gallery</a></i> (1972)</li> <li>"Too Proud to Lose" (1955)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1955-09/Galaxy_1955_09#page/n59/mode/2up">"One for the Books"</a> (1955)</li> <li>"Pattern for Survival" (1955)</li> <li>"A Flourish of Strumpets" (1956)</li> <li>"The Splendid Source" (1956); adapted as a <i><a href="/wiki/Family_Guy" title="Family Guy">Family Guy</a></i> <a href="/wiki/The_Splendid_Source" title="The Splendid Source">episode</a><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Steel" (1956); adapted as a <i><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone" title="The Twilight Zone">Twilight Zone</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Steel_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Steel (The Twilight Zone)">episode</a> (1963); loosely filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/Real_Steel" title="Real Steel">Real Steel</a></i> (2011)</li> <li>"The Children of Noah" (1957)</li> <li>"A Visit to Santa Claus" (a.k.a. "I'll Make It Look Good", as Logan Swanson) (1957)</li> <li>"The Holiday Man" (1957)</li> <li>"Old Haunts" (1957)</li> <li>"The Distributor" (1958)</li> <li>"The Edge" (1958)</li> <li>"Lemmings" (1958)</li> <li>"Now Die in It" (1958)</li> <li>"Mantage" (1959)</li> <li>"Deadline" (1959)</li> <li>"The Creeping Terror" (a.k.a. "A Touch of Grapefruit") (1959)</li> <li>"No Such Thing as a Vampire" (1959); adapted as segment of the TV film <i><a href="/wiki/Dead_of_Night_(1977_film)" title="Dead of Night (1977 film)">Dead of Night</a></i> (1977)</li> <li>"Big Surprise" (a.k.a. "What Was in the Box") (1959); adapted as a <i><a href="/wiki/Night_Gallery" title="Night Gallery">Night Gallery</a></i> short</li> <li>"Crickets" (1960)</li> <li>"Day of Reckoning" (a.k.a. "The Faces," "Graveyard Shift") (1960)</li> <li>"First Anniversary" (1960); adapted as an <i><a href="/wiki/The_Outer_Limits_(1995_TV_series)" title="The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)">Outer Limits</a></i> <a href="/wiki/First_Anniversary_(The_Outer_Limits)" class="mw-redirect" title="First Anniversary (The Outer Limits)">episode</a> (1996)</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v019n04_1960-10_PDF/page/n45/mode/2up?view=theater">From Shadowed Places</a>" (1960)</li> <li>"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (1961); adapted as a <i><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone" title="The Twilight Zone">Twilight Zone</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Nightmare_at_20,000_Feet" title="Nightmare at 20,000 Feet">episode</a> in 1963, as segment four of <i><a href="/wiki/Twilight_Zone:_The_Movie" title="Twilight Zone: The Movie">Twilight Zone: The Movie</a></i> in 1983, and as one of the Twilight Zone radio dramas. Loosely inspired "Nightmare at 30,000 Feet" in the 2019 revival series. Has also been parodied numerous times, most notably as a segment of the fourth installment of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons">The Simpsons</a>'</i> <a href="/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror" title="Treehouse of Horror">Treehouse of Horror</a> series.</li> <li>"Finger Prints" (1962)</li> <li>"Mute" (1962); adapted as a <i><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone" title="The Twilight Zone">Twilight Zone</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Mute_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Mute (The Twilight Zone)">episode</a> (1963)</li> <li>"The Likeness of Julie" (as Logan Swanson) (1962); adapted into "Julie" in the 1975 TV film <i><a href="/wiki/Trilogy_of_Terror" title="Trilogy of Terror">Trilogy of Terror</a></i></li> <li>"The Jazz Machine" (1963)</li> <li>"Crescendo" (a.k.a. "Shock Wave") (1963)</li> <li>"Girl of My Dreams" (1963); adapted by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bloch" title="Robert Bloch">Robert Bloch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_J._Bird" title="Michael J. Bird">Michael J. Bird</a> as an episode of the 1968 Hammer TV series <i><a href="/wiki/Journey_to_the_Unknown" title="Journey to the Unknown">Journey to the Unknown</a></i></li> <li>"'Tis the Season to Be Jelly" (1963)</li> <li>"Deus Ex Machina" (1963)</li> <li>"Interest" (1965)</li> <li>"A Drink of Water" (1967)</li> <li>"Needle in the Heart" (a.k.a. "Therese") (1969); adapted into "Millicent and Therese" in the 1975 TV anthology film <i><a href="/wiki/Trilogy_of_Terror" title="Trilogy of Terror">Trilogy of Terror</a></i></li> <li>"Prey" (1969); adapted into "Ameilia" in the 1975 TV anthology film <i><a href="/wiki/Trilogy_of_Terror" title="Trilogy of Terror">Trilogy of Terror</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)#Short_story" title="Button, Button (The Twilight Zone)">Button, Button</a>" (1970); filmed as a <i><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone" title="The Twilight Zone">The Twilight Zone</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Button, Button (The Twilight Zone)">episode</a> in 1986; filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Box_(2009_film)" title="The Box (2009 film)">The Box</a></i> (2009)</li> <li>"'Til Death Do Us Part" (1970)</li> <li>"By Appointment Only" (1970)</li> <li>"The Finishing Touches" (1970)</li> <li>"Duel" (1971); filmed as <i><a href="/wiki/Duel_(1971_film)" title="Duel (1971 film)">Duel</a></i> (1971)</li> <li>"Leo Rising" (1972)</li> <li>"Where There's a Will" (with Richard Christian Matheson) (1980)</li> <li>"And Now I'm Waiting" (1983)</li> <li>"Blunder Buss" (1984)</li> <li>"Getting Together" (1986)</li> <li>"Buried Talents" (1987)</li> <li>"The Near Departed" (1987)</li> <li>"Shoo Fly" (1988)</li> <li>"Person to Person" (1989)</li> <li>"CU: Mannix" (1991)</li> <li>"Two O'Clock Session" (1991)</li> <li>"The Doll"; adapted as an <i><a href="/wiki/Amazing_Stories_(1985_TV_series)" title="Amazing Stories (1985 TV series)">Amazing Stories</a></i> episode (1986)</li> <li>"Go West, Young Man" (1993)</li> <li>"Gunsight" (1993)</li> <li>"Little Jack Cornered" (1993)</li> <li>"Of Death and Thirty Minutes" (1993)</li> <li>"Always Before Your Voice" (1999)</li> <li>"Relics" (1999)</li> <li>"And in Sorrow" (2000)</li> <li>"The Prisoner" (2001)</li> <li>"Purge Among Peanuts" (2001)</li> <li>"He Wanted to Live" (2002)</li> <li>"The Last Blah in the Etc." (a.k.a. "All and Only Silence") (2002)</li> <li>"Life Size" (2002)</li> <li>"Maybe You Remember Him" (2002)</li> <li>"Mirror, Mirror..." (2002)</li> <li>"Phone Call From Across The Street" (2002)</li> <li>"Professor Fritz and the Runaway House" (2002)</li> <li>"That Was Yesterday" (2002)</li> <li>"Man With a Club" (2003)</li> <li>"Haircut" (2006)</li> <li>"Life Size" (2008)</li> <li>"An Element Never Forgets" (2010)</li> <li>"Backteria" (2011)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Short_story_collections">Short story collections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Short story collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Born_of_Man_and_Woman_(collection)" class="mw-redirect" title="Born of Man and Woman (collection)"><i>Born of Man and Woman</i></a> (1954)</li> <li><i>The Shores of Space</i> (1957)</li> <li><i>Shock!</i> (1961)</li> <li><i>Shock 2</i> (1964)</li> <li><i>Shock 3</i> (1966)</li> <li><i>Shock Waves</i> (1970); published as <i>Shock 4</i> in the UK (1980)</li> <li><i>Button, Button</i> (1970); basis for the movie <i>The Box</i> (2009)</li> <li><i>Richard Matheson: Collected Stories</i> (1989)</li> <li><i>By the Gun</i> (1993)</li> <li><i>Nightmare at 20,000 Feet</i> (2002)</li> <li><i>Pride</i> (2002); co-written with Richard Christian Matheson</li> <li><i>Duel</i> (2002)</li> <li><i>Offbeat: Uncollected Stories</i> (2002)</li> <li><i>Darker Places</i> (2004)</li> <li><i>Unrealized Dreams</i> (2004)</li> <li><i>Duel and the Distributor</i> (2005); previously unpublished screenplays of these two stories</li> <li><i>Button, Button: Uncanny Stories</i> (2008)</li> <li><i>Uncollected Matheson: Volume 1</i> (2008)</li> <li><i>Uncollected Matheson: Volume 2</i> (2010)</li> <li><i>Steel: And Other Stories</i> (2011)</li> <li><i>Bakteria and Other Improbable Tales</i> (2011) (e-book exclusive)</li> <li><i>The Best of Richard Matheson</i> (2017)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Films">Films</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Films"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>For television films, see <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Television">Television</a> section below.</i> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Incredible_Shrinking_Man" title="The Incredible Shrinking Man">The Incredible Shrinking Man</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Beat_Generation" class="mw-redirect" title="The Beat Generation">The Beat Generation</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/House_of_Usher_(film)" title="House of Usher (film)">House of Usher</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Master_of_the_World_(1961_film)" title="Master of the World (1961 film)">Master of the World</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Pit_and_the_Pendulum_(1961_film)" title="The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film)">The Pit and the Pendulum</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Burn_Witch_Burn_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Burn Witch Burn (film)">Burn Witch Burn</a></i> (1962); a.k.a. <i><a href="/wiki/Night_of_the_Eagle" title="Night of the Eagle">Night of the Eagle</a></i> (screenplay co-written with <a href="/wiki/Charles_Beaumont" title="Charles Beaumont">Charles Beaumont</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Baxt" title="George Baxt">George Baxt</a>, based on the novel <i>Conjure Wife</i> by <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Leiber" title="Fritz Leiber">Fritz Leiber</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tales_of_Terror" title="Tales of Terror">Tales of Terror</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Raven_(1963_film)" title="The Raven (1963 film)">The Raven</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Comedy_of_Terrors" title="The Comedy of Terrors">The Comedy of Terrors</a></i> (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_(1964_film)" title="The Last Man on Earth (1964 film)">The Last Man on Earth</a></i> (as "Logan Swanson", based on his novel <i>I Am Legend</i>) (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fanatic_(1965_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fanatic (1965 film)">Fanatic</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Young_Warriors_(film)" title="The Young Warriors (film)">The Young Warriors</a></i> (based on his novel <i>The Beardless Warriors</i>) (1967)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Devil_Rides_Out_(film)" title="The Devil Rides Out (film)">The Devil Rides Out</a></i> (based on the novel by <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Wheatley" title="Dennis Wheatley">Dennis Wheatley</a>) (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/De_Sade_(film)" title="De Sade (film)">De Sade</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cold_Sweat_(1970_film)" title="Cold Sweat (1970 film)">Cold Sweat</a></i> (based on his novel <i>Ride the Nightmare</i>) (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Omega_Man" title="The Omega Man">The Omega Man</a></i> (based on his novel <i>I Am Legend</i>) (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Legend_of_Hell_House" title="The Legend of Hell House">The Legend of Hell House</a></i> (based on his novel <i>Hell House</i>) (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Icy_Breasts" title="Icy Breasts">Icy Breasts</a></i> (based on his novel <i>Someone Is Bleeding</i>) (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Somewhere_in_Time_(film)" title="Somewhere in Time (film)">Somewhere in Time</a></i> (based on his novel <i>Bid Time Return</i>) (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Twilight_Zone:_The_Movie" title="Twilight Zone: The Movie">Twilight Zone: The Movie</a></i>: fourth segment, "<a href="/wiki/Twilight_Zone:_The_Movie#Fourth_segment_.28.22Nightmare_at_20.2C000_Feet.22.29" title="Twilight Zone: The Movie">Nightmare at 20,000 Feet</a>" (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jaws_3-D" title="Jaws 3-D">Jaws 3-D</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Loose_Cannons_(1990_film)" title="Loose Cannons (1990 film)">Loose Cannons</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/What_Dreams_May_Come_(film)" title="What Dreams May Come (film)">What Dreams May Come</a></i> (based on his novel) (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stir_of_Echoes" title="Stir of Echoes">Stir of Echoes</a></i> (1999) (based on his novel)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(film)" title="I Am Legend (film)">I Am Legend</a></i> (based on his novel) (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Box_(2009_film)" title="The Box (2009 film)">The Box</a></i> (based on his short story "Button, Button") (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Real_Steel" title="Real Steel">Real Steel</a></i> (based on his short story "Steel") (2011)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Buckskin_(TV_series)" title="Buckskin (TV series)">Buckskin</a></i>: "Act of Faith" (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wanted:_Dead_or_Alive_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV series)">Wanted Dead or Alive</a></i>: "The Healing Woman" (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone_(1959_TV_series)" title="The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)">The Twilight Zone</a></i>: (16 episodes) (1959–1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Have_Gun_Will_Travel" class="mw-redirect" title="Have Gun Will Travel">Have Gun Will Travel</a></i>: "The Lady on The Wall" (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bourbon_Street_Beat" title="Bourbon Street Beat">Bourbon Street Beat</a></i>: "Target of Hate" (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cheyenne_(1955_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cheyenne (1955 TV series)">Cheyenne</a></i>: "Home Is the Brave" (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lawman_(TV_series)" title="Lawman (TV series)">Lawman</a></i> (Six episodes) (1960–1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Thriller_(U.S._TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thriller (U.S. TV series)">Thriller</a></i>: "The Return of Andrew Bentley" (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Combat!" title="Combat!">Combat!</a></i>: "Forgotten Front" (as Logan Swanson) (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Alfred_Hitchcock_Hour" class="mw-redirect" title="The Alfred Hitchcock Hour">The Alfred Hitchcock Hour</a></i>: "Ride the Nightmare" (1962)</li> <li><i>The Alfred Hitchcock Hour</i>: "The Thirty-First of February" (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Girl_from_U.N.C.L.E." title="The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.">The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.</a></i>: "The Atlantis Affair" (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope_Presents_The_Chrysler_Theater" class="mw-redirect" title="Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theater">Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theater</a></i>: "Time of Flight" (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series" title="Star Trek: The Original Series">Star Trek: The Original Series</a></i>: "<a href="/wiki/The_Enemy_Within_(Star_Trek)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Enemy Within (Star Trek)">The Enemy Within</a>" (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Duel_(1971_film)" title="Duel (1971 film)">Duel</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Night_Stalker_(1972_film)" title="The Night Stalker (1972 film)">The Night Stalker</a></i> (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Night_Gallery" title="Night Gallery">Night Gallery</a></i> (1972): "<a href="/wiki/Night_Gallery#Season_2" title="Night Gallery">The Funeral</a>" (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Night_Strangler_(film)" title="The Night Strangler (film)">The Night Strangler</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dying_Room_Only" title="Dying Room Only">Dying Room Only</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ghost_Story_(TV_series)" title="Ghost Story (TV series)">Circle of Fear</a></i> (1973) (originally titled <i>Ghost Story</i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bram_Stoker%27s_Dracula_(1973_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bram Stoker's Dracula (1973 film)">Bram Stoker's Dracula</a></i> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Scream_of_the_Wolf" title="Scream of the Wolf">Scream of the Wolf</a></i> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Morning_After_(1974_film)" title="The Morning After (1974 film)">The Morning After</a></i> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Trilogy_of_Terror" title="Trilogy of Terror">Trilogy of Terror</a></i> (1975) (TV anthology film, directed by <a href="/wiki/Dan_Curtis" title="Dan Curtis">Dan Curtis</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dead_of_Night_(1977_film)" title="Dead of Night (1977 film)">Dead of Night</a></i> (1977) (TV anthology film, directed by Dan Curtis)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Strange_Possession_of_Mrs._Oliver" title="The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver">The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver</a></i> (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Martian_Chronicles_(TV_miniseries)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Martian Chronicles (TV miniseries)">The Martian Chronicles</a></i> mini-series (1979, 1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone_(1985_TV_series)" title="The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)">Twilight Zone</a></i>: "<a href="/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Button, Button (The Twilight Zone)">Button, Button</a>" (as Logan Swanson) (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amazing_Stories_(1985_TV_series)" title="Amazing Stories (1985 TV series)">Amazing Stories</a></i>: "The Doll" (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amazing_Stories_(1985_TV_series)" title="Amazing Stories (1985 TV series)">Amazing Stories</a></i>: "One for the Books" (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dreamer_of_Oz:_The_L._Frank_Baum_Story" title="The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story">The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rod_Serling%27s_Lost_Classics" class="mw-redirect" title="Rod Serling's Lost Classics">Rod Serling's Lost Classics</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Trilogy_of_Terror_II" title="Trilogy of Terror II">Trilogy of Terror II</a></i> (1996) (TV anthology film, directed by Dan Curtis)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nonfiction">Nonfiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Nonfiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Path: Metaphysics for the 90s</i> (1993)</li> <li><i>The Path: A New Look at Reality</i> (1999)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>California Sorcery</i>, edited by <a href="/wiki/William_F._Nolan" title="William F. Nolan">William F. Nolan</a> and William Schafer</li> <li>Jad Hatem, <i>Charité de l'infinitésimal</i>, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2007</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Matheson&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 25em ;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-isfdb-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-isfdb_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-isfdb_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-isfdb_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-isfdb_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-isfdb_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?531">Richard Matheson</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database" title="Internet Speculative Fiction Database">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a> (ISFDB). 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Biography.com (FYI and A&E Networks). Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biography.com/people/richard-matheson-21265767">the original</a> on September 13, 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(novel)" title="I Am Legend (novel)">I Am Legend</a></i> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Shrinking_Man" title="The Shrinking Man">The Shrinking Man</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Stir_of_Echoes" title="A Stir of Echoes">A Stir of Echoes</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Beardless_Warriors" title="The Beardless Warriors">The Beardless Warriors</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hell_House_(novel)" title="Hell House (novel)">Hell House</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bid_Time_Return" title="Bid Time Return">Bid Time Return</a></i> (1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/What_Dreams_May_Come_(Matheson_novel)" title="What Dreams May Come (Matheson novel)">What Dreams May Come</a></i> (1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Earthbound_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="Earthbound (novel)">Earthbound</a></i> (1982)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Short stories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Born_of_Man_and_Woman" title="Born of Man and Woman">Born of Man and Woman</a>" (1950)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Button,_Button_(Matheson_short_story)" class="mw-redirect" title="Button, Button (Matheson short story)">Button, Button</a>" (1970)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Screenplays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Incredible_Shrinking_Man" title="The Incredible Shrinking Man">The Incredible Shrinking Man</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/House_of_Usher_(film)" title="House of Usher (film)">House of Usher</a></i> (1960)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Last_Flight_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="The Last Flight (The Twilight Zone)">The Last Flight</a>" (1960)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Nick_of_Time_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Nick of Time (The Twilight Zone)">Nick of Time</a>" (1960)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_World_of_Difference" title="A World of Difference">A World of Difference</a>" (1960)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_World_of_His_Own" title="A World of His Own">A World of His Own</a>" (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Master_of_the_World_(1961_film)" title="Master of the World (1961 film)">Master of the World</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Pit_and_the_Pendulum_(1961_film)" title="The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film)">The Pit and the Pendulum</a></i> (1961)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Invaders_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="The Invaders (The Twilight Zone)">The Invaders</a>" (1961)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Once Upon a Time (The Twilight Zone)">Once Upon a Time</a>" (1961)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Night_of_the_Eagle" title="Night of the Eagle">Night of the Eagle</a></i> (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tales_of_Terror" title="Tales of Terror">Tales of Terror</a></i> (1962)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Little_Girl_Lost_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Little Girl Lost (The Twilight Zone)">Little Girl Lost</a>" (1962)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Young_Man%27s_Fancy_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Young Man's Fancy (The Twilight Zone)">Young Man's Fancy</a>" (1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Raven_(1963_film)" title="The Raven (1963 film)">The Raven</a></i> (1963)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Death_Ship_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Death Ship (The Twilight Zone)">Death Ship</a>" (1963)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Mute_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Mute (The Twilight Zone)">Mute</a>" (1963)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Nightmare_at_20,000_Feet" title="Nightmare at 20,000 Feet">Nightmare at 20,000 Feet</a>" (1963)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Steel_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Steel (The Twilight Zone)">Steel</a>" (1963)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Comedy_of_Terrors" title="The Comedy of Terrors">The Comedy of Terrors</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_(1964_film)" title="The Last Man on Earth (1964 film)">The Last Man on Earth</a></i> (1964)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Night_Call_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Night Call (The Twilight Zone)">Night Call</a>" (1964)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Spur_of_the_Moment_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Spur of the Moment (The Twilight Zone)">Spur of the Moment</a>" (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fanatic_(1965_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fanatic (1965 film)">Fanatic</a></i> (1965)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Young_Warriors_(film)" title="The Young Warriors (film)">The Young Warriors</a></i> (1966)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Enemy_Within_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)" title="The Enemy Within (Star Trek: The Original Series)">The Enemy Within</a>" (1966)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Devil_Rides_Out_(film)" title="The Devil Rides Out (film)">The Devil Rides Out</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/De_Sade_(film)" title="De Sade (film)">De Sade</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Duel_(1971_film)" title="Duel (1971 film)">Duel</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Night_Stalker_(1972_film)" title="The Night Stalker (1972 film)">The Night Stalker</a></i> (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Night_Strangler_(film)" title="The Night Strangler (film)">The Night Strangler</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Legend_of_Hell_House" title="The Legend of Hell House">The Legend of Hell House</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dying_Room_Only" title="Dying Room Only">Dying Room Only</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bram_Stoker%27s_Dracula_(1974_film)" title="Bram Stoker's Dracula (1974 film)">Bram Stoker's Dracula</a></i> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Morning_After_(1974_film)" title="The Morning After (1974 film)">The Morning After</a></i> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Scream_of_the_Wolf" title="Scream of the Wolf">Scream of the Wolf</a></i> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Trilogy_of_Terror" title="Trilogy of Terror">Trilogy of Terror</a></i> (1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dead_of_Night_(1977_film)" title="Dead of Night (1977 film)">Dead of Night</a></i> (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Strange_Possession_of_Mrs._Oliver" title="The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver">The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver</a></i> (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Martian_Chronicles_(miniseries)" title="The Martian Chronicles (miniseries)">The Martian Chronicles</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Somewhere_in_Time_(film)" title="Somewhere in Time (film)">Somewhere in Time</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jaws_3-D" title="Jaws 3-D">Jaws 3-D</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Twilight_Zone:_The_Movie" title="Twilight Zone: The Movie">Twilight Zone: The Movie</a></i> (1983)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)" title="Button, Button (The Twilight Zone)">Button, Button</a>" (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Loose_Cannons_(1990_film)" title="Loose Cannons (1990 film)">Loose Cannons</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dreamer_of_Oz:_The_L._Frank_Baum_Story" title="The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story">The Dreamer of Oz</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Twilight_Zone:_Rod_Serling%27s_Lost_Classics" title="Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics">Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Trilogy_of_Terror_II" title="Trilogy of Terror II">Trilogy of Terror II</a></i> (1996)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Adaptations<br />by others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/And_When_the_Sky_Was_Opened" title="And When the Sky Was Opened">And When the Sky Was Opened</a>" (1959)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Third_from_the_Sun" title="Third from the Sun">Third from the Sun</a>" (1960)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cold_Sweat_(1970_film)" title="Cold Sweat (1970 film)">Cold Sweat</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Omega_Man" title="The Omega Man">The Omega Man</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Incredible_Shrinking_Woman" title="The Incredible Shrinking Woman">The Incredible Shrinking Woman</a></i> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/What_Dreams_May_Come_(film)" title="What Dreams May Come (film)">What Dreams May Come</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stir_of_Echoes" title="Stir of Echoes">Stir of Echoes</a></i> (1999)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Dance_of_the_Dead_(Masters_of_Horror)" title="Dance of the Dead (Masters of Horror)">Dance of the Dead</a>" (2005)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/My_Ambition" title="My Ambition">My Ambition</a>" (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(film)" title="I Am Legend (film)">I Am Legend</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/I_Am_Omega" title="I Am Omega">I Am Omega</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Box_(2009_film)" title="The Box (2009 film)">The Box</a></i> (2009)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Splendid_Source" title="The Splendid Source">The Splendid Source</a>" (2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Real_Steel" title="Real Steel">Real Steel</a></i> (2011)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Christian_Matheson" title="Richard Christian Matheson">Richard Christian Matheson</a> (son)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Matheson_(screenwriter)" title="Chris Matheson (screenwriter)">Chris Matheson</a> (son)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Bram_Stoker_Award_for_Lifetime_Achievement" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Bram_Stoker_Award_for_Lifetime_Achievement" title="Template:Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Bram_Stoker_Award_for_Lifetime_Achievement" title="Template talk:Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Bram_Stoker_Award_for_Lifetime_Achievement" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Bram_Stoker_Award_for_Lifetime_Achievement" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Bram_Stoker_Award_for_Lifetime_Achievement" title="Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement">Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fritz_Leiber" title="Fritz Leiber">Fritz Leiber</a> / <a href="/wiki/Frank_Belknap_Long" title="Frank Belknap Long">Frank Belknap Long</a> / <a href="/wiki/Clifford_D._Simak" title="Clifford D. 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Grant">Charles L. Grant</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigel_Kneale" title="Nigel Kneale">Nigel Kneale</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Farris" title="John Farris">John Farris</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a> / <a href="/wiki/J._N._Williamson" title="J. N. Williamson">J. N. Williamson</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_H._Greenberg" title="Martin H. Greenberg">Martin H. 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Nolan</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellen_Datlow" title="Ellen Datlow">Ellen Datlow</a> / <a href="/wiki/Al_Feldstein" title="Al Feldstein">Al Feldstein</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Hautala" title="Rick Hautala">Rick Hautala</a> / <a href="/wiki/Joe_R._Lansdale" title="Joe R. Lansdale">Joe R. Lansdale</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clive_Barker" title="Clive Barker">Clive Barker</a> / <a href="/wiki/Robert_McCammon" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert McCammon">Robert McCammon</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._L._Stine" title="R. L. Stine">R. L. Stine</a> / <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Jones_(author)" title="Stephen Jones (author)">Stephen Jones</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Ketchum" title="Jack Ketchum">Jack Ketchum</a> / <a href="/wiki/Tanith_Lee" title="Tanith Lee">Tanith Lee</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Moore" title="Alan Moore">Alan Moore</a> / <a href="/wiki/George_A._Romero" title="George A. Romero">George A. Romero</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Etchison" title="Dennis Etchison">Dennis Etchison</a> / <a href="/wiki/Thomas_F._Monteleone" title="Thomas F. Monteleone">Thomas F. Monteleone</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linda_Addison_(poet)" title="Linda Addison (poet)">Linda Addison</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graham_Masterton" title="Graham Masterton">Graham Masterton</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owl_Goingback" title="Owl Goingback">Owl Goingback</a> / <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Ligotti" title="Thomas Ligotti">Thomas Ligotti</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carol_J._Clover" title="Carol J. Clover">Carol J. Clover</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jewelle_Gomez" title="Jewelle Gomez">Jewelle Gomez</a> / <a href="/wiki/Marge_Simon" title="Marge Simon">Marge Simon</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quercus_(publisher)" title="Quercus (publisher)">Jo Fletcher</a> / <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Holder" title="Nancy Holder">Nancy Holder</a> / <a href="/wiki/Koji_Suzuki" title="Koji Suzuki">Koji Suzuki</a> (2021)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="World_Fantasy_Award—Collection" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:World_Fantasy_Award_Best_Collection" title="Template:World Fantasy Award Best Collection"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:World_Fantasy_Award_Best_Collection" title="Template talk:World Fantasy Award Best Collection"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:World_Fantasy_Award_Best_Collection" title="Special:EditPage/Template:World Fantasy Award Best Collection"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="World_Fantasy_Award—Collection" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award" title="World Fantasy Award">World Fantasy Award</a>—<a href="/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award%E2%80%94Collection" title="World Fantasy Award—Collection">Collection</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1975–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Worse_Things_Waiting" title="Worse Things Waiting">Worse Things Waiting</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Manly_Wade_Wellman" title="Manly Wade Wellman">Manly Wade Wellman</a> (1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Enquiries_of_Doctor_Eszterhazy" title="The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy">The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Avram_Davidson" title="Avram Davidson">Avram Davidson</a> (1976)</li> <li><i>Frights</i> by Kirby McCauley (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Murgunstrumm_and_Others" title="Murgunstrumm and Others">Murgunstrumm and Others</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Hugh_B._Cave" title="Hugh B. Cave">Hugh B. Cave</a> (1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shadows_(anthology)" title="Shadows (anthology)">Shadows</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_L._Grant" title="Charles L. Grant">Charles L. Grant</a> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amazons!" title="Amazons!">Amazons!</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jessica_Amanda_Salmonson" title="Jessica Amanda Salmonson">Jessica Amanda Salmonson</a> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Forces_(book)" title="Dark Forces (book)">Dark Forces</a></i> by Kirby McCauley (1981)</li> <li><i>The Dark Country</i> by <a href="/wiki/Terri_Windling" title="Terri Windling">Terri Windling</a> and Mark Alan Arnold (1982)</li> <li><i>Nightmare Seasons</i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_L._Grant" title="Charles L. Grant">Charles L. Grant</a> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/High_Spirits_(short_story_collection)" title="High Spirits (short story collection)">High Spirits</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Robertson_Davies" title="Robertson Davies">Robertson Davies</a> (1984)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Books_of_Blood" title="Books of Blood">Books of Blood, Vols. I-III</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Clive_Barker" title="Clive Barker">Clive Barker</a> (1985)</li> <li><i>Imaginary Lands</i> by <a href="/wiki/Robin_McKinley" title="Robin McKinley">Robin McKinley</a> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tales_of_the_Quintana_Roo" title="Tales of the Quintana Roo">Tales of the Quintana Roo</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/James_Tiptree_Jr." title="James Tiptree Jr.">James Tiptree Jr.</a> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Jaguar_Hunter" title="The Jaguar Hunter">The Jaguar Hunter</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Shepard" title="Lucius Shepard">Lucius Shepard</a> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Angry_Candy" title="Angry Candy">Angry Candy</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Harlan_Ellison" title="Harlan Ellison">Harlan Ellison</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Storeys_from_the_Old_Hotel" title="Storeys from the Old Hotel">Storeys from the Old Hotel</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Gene_Wolfe" title="Gene Wolfe">Gene Wolfe</a> (1989, tie)</li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Richard Matheson: Collected Stories</a></i> by <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Richard Matheson</a> (1990)</li> <li><i>The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories</i> by <a href="/wiki/Carol_Emshwiller" title="Carol Emshwiller">Carol Emshwiller</a> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ends_of_the_Earth_(Shepard_stories)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Ends of the Earth (Shepard stories)">The Ends of the Earth</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Shepard" title="Lucius Shepard">Lucius Shepard</a> (1992)</li> <li><i>The Sons of Noah & Other Stories</i> by <a href="/wiki/Jack_Cady" title="Jack Cady">Jack Cady</a> (1993)</li> <li><i>Alone with the Horrors</i> by <a href="/wiki/Ramsey_Campbell" title="Ramsey Campbell">Ramsey Campbell</a> (1994)</li> <li><i>The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist</i> by <a href="/wiki/Bradley_Denton" title="Bradley Denton">Bradley Denton</a> (1995)</li> <li><i>The Grass Princess</i> by <a href="/wiki/Gwyneth_Jones_(novelist)" title="Gwyneth Jones (novelist)">Gwyneth Jones</a> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_of_the_Sky,_the_Wall_of_the_Eye" title="The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye">The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Lethem" title="Jonathan Lethem">Jonathan Lethem</a> (1997)</li> <li><i>The Throne of Bones</i> by <a href="/wiki/Brian_McNaughton" title="Brian McNaughton">Brian McNaughton</a> (1998)</li> <li><i>Black Glass</i> by <a href="/wiki/Karen_Joy_Fowler" title="Karen Joy Fowler">Karen Joy Fowler</a> (1999)</li> <li><i>Moonlight and Vines</i> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Lint" title="Charles de Lint">Charles de Lint</a> / <i>Reave the Just and Other Tales</i> by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_R._Donaldson" title="Stephen R. Donaldson">Stephen R. Donaldson</a> (2000, tie)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>Beluthahatchie and Other Stories</i> by <a href="/wiki/Andy_Duncan_(writer)" title="Andy Duncan (writer)">Andy Duncan</a> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Skin_Folk" title="Skin Folk">Skin Folk</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Nalo_Hopkinson" title="Nalo Hopkinson">Nalo Hopkinson</a> (2002)</li> <li><i>The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories</i> by <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Ford" title="Jeffrey Ford">Jeffrey Ford</a> (2003)</li> <li><i>Bibliomancy</i> by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Hand" title="Elizabeth Hand">Elizabeth Hand</a> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Black_Juice" title="Black Juice">Black Juice</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Margo_Lanagan" title="Margo Lanagan">Margo Lanagan</a> (2005)</li> <li><i>The Keyhole Opera</i> by <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Holland_Rogers" title="Bruce Holland Rogers">Bruce Holland Rogers</a> (2006)</li> <li><i>Map of Dreams</i> by <a href="/wiki/M._Rickert" title="M. Rickert">M. Rickert</a> (2007)</li> <li><i>Tiny Deaths</i> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Shearman" title="Robert Shearman">Robert Shearman</a> (2008)</li> <li><i>The Drowned Life</i> by <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Ford" title="Jeffrey Ford">Jeffrey Ford</a> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/There_Once_Lived_a_Woman_Who_Tried_To_Kill_Her_Neighbor%27s_Baby:_Scary_Fairy_Tales" class="mw-redirect" title="There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales">There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Lyudmila_Petrushevskaya" title="Lyudmila Petrushevskaya">Lyudmila Petrushevskaya</a> / <i>The Best of Gene Wolfe</i> by <a href="/wiki/Gene_Wolfe" title="Gene Wolfe">Gene Wolfe</a> (2010, tie)</li> <li><i>What I Didn't See and Other Stories</i> by <a href="/wiki/Karen_Joy_Fowler" title="Karen Joy Fowler">Karen Joy Fowler</a> (2011)</li> <li><i>The Bible Repairman and Other Stories</i> by <a href="/wiki/Tim_Powers" title="Tim Powers">Tim Powers</a> (2012)</li> <li><i>Where Furnaces Burn</i> by <a href="/wiki/Joel_Lane" title="Joel Lane">Joel Lane</a> (2013)</li> <li><i>The Ape's Wife and Other Stories</i> by <a href="/wiki/Caitl%C3%ADn_R._Kiernan" title="Caitlín R. 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