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Richard Matheson

(Richard Burton Matheson)

(1926 - )
(Father of Richard Christian Matheson)
aka
Logan Swanson

About Richard Matheson

RICHARD MATHESON is The New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It . . . , and What Dreams May Come. A Grand Master of Horror and past winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, he has also won the Edgar, the Hugo, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards.

New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

The Richard Matheson Companion

Matheson Uncollected, Vol. 1

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

Button, Button
Uncanny Stories

Novels

Fury on Sunday (1953)
Someone Is Bleeding (1953)
Woman (1954)
I Am Legend (1954)
The Shrinking Man (1956)
aka Incredible Shrinking Man
A Stir of Echoes (1958)
Ride the Nightmare (1959)
The Beardless Warriors (1960)
Comedy of Terrors (1964) (with Elsie Lee)
Hell House (1971)
The Night Stalker (1972) (with Jeff Rice)
The Night Strangler (1973)
Somewhere in Time (1975)
aka Bid Time Return
What Dreams May Come (1978)
Earthbound (1982) (writing as Logan Swanson)
Journal of the Gun Years (1991)
The Gun Fight (1993)
The Path: A New Look at Reality (1993)
7 Steps to Midnight (1993)
Shadow on the Sun (1994)
Now You See It.... (1995)
The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok (1996)
Hunger and Thirst (2000)
Passion Play (2000)
Camp Pleasant (2001)
Abu and the 7 Marvels (2002)
Hunted Past Reason (2002)
Come Fygures, Come Shadowes (2003)
The Link (2006)

Omnibus

Darker (1988)
Noir (2005)

Collections

Third from the Sun: Tales of Science Fiction And Fantasy... (1954)
aka Born of Man and Woman
The Shores of Space (1957)
Shock!: Thirteen Tales to Thrill and Terrify (1961)
Shock 2 (1964)
Shock 3 (1966)
Shockwaves (1970)
Shock 4 (1970)
Richard Matheson's Twilight Zone Scripts (1986)
Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks (1986) (with Richard Christian Matheson)
aka Scars
Ghost Trilogy (1987)
Richard Matheson: Collected Stories (1989)
By the Gun (1993)
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (2000)
Offbeat: Uncollected Stories (2002)
Pride (2002) (with Richard Christian Matheson)
Duel (2002)
Darker Places (2004)
Richard Matheson's Kolchak Scripts (2004)
Unrealized Dreams (2004)
Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Vol. 3 (2005)
Bloodlines (2006)
Matheson Uncollected, Vol. 1 (2007)
Visions of Death: Richard Matheson's Edgar Allan Poe Scripts Vol. 1 (2007)
Kiss the Whip (2007) (with Robert Bloch, Henry Clement, Jean-Paul Denard and Jeremy Reed)
Button, Button: Uncanny Stories (2008)

Graphic Novels

Completely Doomed (2007) (with Robert Bloch, David J Schow and F Paul Wilson)

Anthologies edited

Robert Bloch Tribute Anthology (1995)

Non fiction

Robert Bloch : Appreciations of the Master (1995) (see Robert Bloch)
Medium's Rare (2000)
A Primer of Reality (2002)
The Richard Matheson Companion (2007)

Anthologies containing stories by Richard Matheson

Science-Fiction Carnival (1953)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 4th Series (1955)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 5th Series (1956)
Zacherley's Midnight Snacks (1960)
The Fiend in You (1962)
The Masque of the Red Death: And Other Tales of Horror (1964)
The Pseudo-People (1965)
The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural (1967)
The Midnight People (1968)
The Others (1969)
The Witchcraft Reader (1969)
The Hollywood Nightmare (1970)
The Year's Best Horror Stories (1971)
A Clutch of Vampires (1974)
The Devil's Children (1974)
More of Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors (1974)
Christopher Lee's 'X' Certificate (1975)
Fear (1975)
The Black Magic Omnibus Volume 2 (1976)
The Master's Choice Book 2 (1979)
Dark Forces (1980)
The Gruesome Book (1983)
Machines That Kill (1984)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1985)
Masters of Darkness (1986)
A Century of Horror 1970-1979: The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1987)
Masques 2 (1987)
Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader (1987)
Hot Blood: Tales of Provocative Horror (1989)
The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989)
aka Demons and Dreams
Between Time and Terror (1990)
Urban Horrors (1990)
Vampires: The Greatest Stories (1991)
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1992)
Nursery Crimes (1993)
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream...Nightmare (1993)
Visions of Fear (1994)
The Vampire Omnibus (1995)
Rivals of Dracula (1996)
Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction (1997)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
The Road to Science Fiction 4: From Here to Forever (1997)
The Unexplained: Stories of the Paranormal (1998)
Vampire and Werewolf Stories (1998)
California Sorcery (1999)
My Favorite Horror Story (2000)

Short stories

	Born of Man and Woman (1950)
	Third from the Sun (1950)
	When the Waker Sleeps (1950)
	Blood Son (1951) aka Drink My Blood
	Clothes Make the Man (1951)
	Dress of White Silk (1951)
	Drink My Blood (1951)
	F--- (1951)
	Return (1951)
	The Thing (1951)
	Witch War (1951)
	Brother to the Machine (1952)
	The Disinheritors (1952)
	Lover, When You're Near Me (1952)
	Mad House (1952)
	Shipshape Home (1952)
	SRL AD (1952)
	To Fit the Crime (1952)
	Death Ship (1953)
	Disappearing Act (1953)
	Dying Room Only (1953)
	Full Circle (1953)
	The Last Day (1953)
	Lazarus II (1953)
	Legion of Plotters (1953)
	Little Girl Lost (1953)
	Long Distance Call (1953)
	The Man Who Made the World (1953)
	Mother By Protest (1953)
	Slaughter House (1953)
	Trespass (1953)
	The Wedding (1953)
	Wet Straw (1953)
	Being (1954)
	The Conquerer (1954)
	The Curious Child (1954)
	Dance of the Dead (1954)
	Dear Diary (1954)
	Descent (1954)
	The Doll That Does Everything (1954)
	I Am Legend (1954)
	The Test (1954)
	The Traveller (1954)
	When Day is Dun (1954)
	The Funeral (1955)
	Miss Stardust (1955)
	One for the Books (1955)
	Pattern for Survival (1955)
	A Flourish of Strumpets (1956)
	The Splendid Source (1956)
	Steel (1956)
	The Children of Noah (1957)
	The Distributor (1957)
	The Holiday Man (1957)
	Lemmings (1957)
	The Edge (1958)
	Advance Notice (1959)
	Big Surprise (1959)
	The Creeping Terror (1959)
	Deadline (1959)
	Mantage (1959)
	No Such Thing as a Vampire (1959)
	Crickets (1960)
	Day of Reckoning (1960)
	First Anniversary (1960)
	From Shadowed Places (1960)
	Graveyard Shift (1960)
	Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1961)
	Finger Prints (1962)
	The Likeness of Julie (1962)
	Mute (1962)
	Deus Ex Machina (1963)
	Girl of My Dreams (1963)
	The Jazz Machine (1963)
	Shock Wave (1963)
	'Tis the Season to Be Jelly (1963)
	A Drink of Water (1967)
	Therese (1968)
	Prey (1969)
	Come Fygures, Come Shadowes (1970)
	The Finishing Touches (1970)
	A Visit to Santa Claus (1970)
	Duel (1971)
	Where There's a Will (1980) (with Richard Christian Matheson)
	More Than We Appear To Be (1985)
	Getting Together (1986)
	Buried Talents (1987)
	The Near Departed (1987)
	Shoo Fly (1988)
	Always Before Your Voice (1999)
	By Appointment Only

Awards

	World Fantasy Best Novel winner (1976) : Somewhere in Time
	World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement nominee (1978)
	World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement winner (1984)
	World Fantasy Best Collection winner (1990) : Richard Matheson: Collected Stories
	Bram Stoker Best Collection winner (1990) : Richard Matheson: Collected Stories

Books about Richard Matheson

The Devils of His Own Creation: The Life and Work of Richard Matheson (2002) by Terry Brejla

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