I am Legend by Richard Matheson I don’t like vampire novels much, so I wasn’t planning to read Richard Matheson’s classic vampire story I am Legend which was published in 1954, is also known by the title The Omega Man, and is, of course, the basis for the movie I am Legend. But then I […]
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The Incredible Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson Every day Scott Carey is getting shorter by 1/7 of an inch. The doctors have figured out why — he was exposed to a combination of insecticide and radioactivity — but so far they have not been able to make him stop shrinking. Now Scott is only one […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4.5 | Richard Matheson | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
The Shores of Space by Richard Matheson The four novels that I had previously read by New Jersey-born Richard Matheson — namely, 1954’s I Am Legend, 1956’s The Shrinking Man, 1958’s A Stir of Echoes and 1971’s Hell House — all demonstrated to this reader what a sure hand the late author had in the […]
Read MoreSandy Ferber´s rating: 4.5 | Richard Matheson | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson Richard Matheson is an author who never seems to let me down. The first two novels that I read by the man, I Am Legend (1954) and The Shrinking Man (1956), are superb and highly original sci-fi creations, and both have been memorably filmed. (I seem to be […]
Read MoreSandy Ferber´s rating: 4.5 | Richard Matheson | Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Hell House by Richard Matheson Richard Matheson’s short novel Hell House (1971) follows a group of four experts with various supernatural-related backgrounds who seek to prove or disprove the existence of ghosts in a super-creepy home that’s become known as Hell House. And a hellish house it is indeed. The roots of the story are […]
Read MoreJason Golomb´s rating: 3 | Richard Matheson | Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Steel and Other Stories by Richard Matheson Steel and Other Stories is a collection of stories written by Richard Matheson who is probably best known for his novels I am Legend and The Incredible Shrinking Man. Most were originally published in pulp magazines in the 1950s, though two are recent and have never been collected […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Richard Matheson | Audio, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
The Best of Richard Matheson by Richard Matheson Almost precisely two years ago, I had some words to say about a then-new anthology that had been released by Penguin Classics: Perchance to Dream, a 300+-page collection of short stories by the author Charles Beaumont. Flash forward two years, and I am now here to tell […]
Read MoreSandy Ferber´s rating: 4 | Richard Matheson | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 6 comments |
Thriller Viewers who tuned into the new Thriller program on NBC, on the night of September 13, 1960, a Tuesday, could have had little idea that the mildly suspenseful program that they saw that evening — one that concerned a male ad exec being stalked by a female admirer — would soon morph into the […]
Read MoreSandy Ferber´s rating: 5 | Charles Beaumont, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard | Film / TV, Horror | SFF Reviews | | 5 comments |
Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin Greenberg Though hardly a runaway success in its day, and a publication that faced financial hardships for much of its existence, the pulp magazine known as Weird Tales is today remembered by fans and collectors alike as one of the most influential […]
Read MoreWeird Tales: The Magazine that Never Dies edited by Marvin Kaye Marvin Kaye’s Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies anthology from 1988 takes a slightly different tack than its earlier sister volume, Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors. Whereas the editors of that earlier collection chose to select one story from each year of the magazine’s […]
Read MoreRivals of Weird Tales edited by Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg From 1923 – ’54, over the course of 279 issues, the pulp publication known as Weird Tales helped to popularize macabre fantasy and outré horror fiction, ultimately becoming one of the most influential and anthologized magazines of the century, and […]
Read MoreSandy Ferber´s rating: 5 | Anthony Boucher, C.L. Moore, Clark Ashton Smith, Fritz Leiber, H.P. Lovecraft, Henry Kuttner, Jack Williamson, L. Sprague De-Camp, Manly Wade Wellman, Norvell W. Page, Philip K. Dick, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Theodore Sturgeon | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
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