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Richard Matheson


(Richard Burton Matheson)
USA flag (1926 - 2013)
Father of Richard Christian Matheson

aka Logan Swanson

Richard Matheson was 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 also won the Edgar, the Hugo, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards.
 

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, Western
 
Novels
   Fury on Sunday (1953)
   Someone Is Bleeding (1953)
   I Am Legend (1954)
     aka The Omega Man
   Woman (1954)
     aka Born of Man and Woman
   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 (1973) (with Jeff Rice)
   Somewhere in Time (1975)
     aka Bid Time Return
   What Dreams May Come (1979)
   Earthbound (1982) (as by Logan Swanson)
   Hunger and Thirst (1990)
   Journal of the Gun Years (1991)
   The Gun Fight (1993)
   7 Steps to Midnight (1993)
   The Path (1993)
   Shadow on the Sun (1994)
   Now You See It.... (1995)
   The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok (1996)
   Passion Play (2000)
   Camp Pleasant (2001)
   Abu and the 7 Marvels (2002)
   Hunted Past Reason (2002)
   Come Fygures, Come Shadowes (2003)
   The Link (2006)
   Other Kingdoms (2011)
   Generations (2012)
   Leave Yesterday Alone (2014)
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Collections
   The Shores of Space (1957)
   Shock! (1961)
   Shock 2 (1964)
   Shock 3 (1966)
   Shock 4 (1970)
   Shockwaves (1970)
   Richard Matheson's Twilight Zone Scripts (1986)
   Ghost Trilogy (1987)
   Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks (1987) (with Richard Christian Matheson)
     aka Scars
   By the Gun (1994)
   Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (2001)
   Pride (2002) (with Richard Christian Matheson)
   Offbeat (2002)
   Duel (2003)
   Collected Stories, Vol. 1 (2003)
   Richard Matheson's Kolchak Scripts (2003)
   Darker Places (2004)
   Collected Stories, Vol. 2 (2005)
   Collected Stories Vol. 3 (2005)
   Unrealized Dreams (2005)
   Bloodlines (2006)
   Visions of Death (2007)
   Button, Button (2008)
   Matheson Uncollected, Vol. 1 (2008)
   Road Rage (2009) (with Joe Hill and Stephen King)
   Visions Deferred (2009)
   The Box (2009)
   Matheson Uncollected, Vol. 2 (2010)
   Steel (2011)
   Richard Matheson Uncollected (2012)
   The Best of Richard Matheson (2017)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Anthologies edited
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Series contributed to
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
   2. The Night Strangler (1973) (with Jeff Rice)
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Richard Matheson recommends

Anthologies containing stories by Richard Matheson
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Automobilia (2024)
SpeKulative Stories Anthology
edited by
Jeffrey L Buford Jr and Jason J Marchi
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They're Here! (2023)
edited by
Hank Davis and Sean C W Korsgaard
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

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Awards
World Fantasy Best Novel winner (1976) : Somewhere in Time
World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement nominee (1978)
World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement winner (1984)
Bram Stoker Best Collection winner (1990) : Collected Stories, Vol. 1
World Fantasy Best Collection winner (1990) : Collected Stories, Vol. 1


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