Richard Matheson

Neville is essentially the last man on earth, and the loneliness of his situation is the central part of the story. Matheson is able to communicate Neville's emotional feelings vividly, making him very real. We gradually acquire the story of the deaths of Neville's wife and daughter, essentially experiencing the pain he goes through when these memories overcome him. We watch him drink himself into a stupor as each night finds him besieged in his fortified...

The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok: "Gunfighter. U.S. marshal. Legend. James Butler Hickok was a celebrity before there was a Hollywood...and he was dead before he was forty. Spur Award-winning author Richard Matheson delves into the life and times of the man behind the myth. The abusive childhood that turned him violent. The secret terrors hiding behind his fearless reputation. And the unforgettable events that caused his name to live on more than a...

"Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth. The sole survivor of a vampire pandemic, he spends his days hunting the undead through the ruins of Los Angeles. By night, he is the hunted; the undead are hungry for Neville's blood, and will stop at nothing to get it. As Robert works to understand the virus and find a cure for the affliction, his days of isolation and fear turn into months, then years. But as a new society spawns from the ashes of...

After Chris Nielsen dies in an accident, he tries to remain close to his mortal wife, Annie. But when his wife takes her own life, she is banished to an eternal damnation. Chris vows to find her so they can share eternity together.

A young writer sacrifices his life in the present to find happiness in the past, where true love awaits him.

The fall of the house of Usher: An English Lord fears that his sister has been buried alive, and sure enough, she is, but she revives, but not without causing much confusion among the other members of the cast. The pit and the pendulum: A young man's search for the truth of his sister's death uncovers a bizarre and ghastly secret.

The first settlers on Mars discover the shocking secrets of the Red Planet.

Existentialism goes pop in this benchmark of atomic-age science fiction, a superlative adaptation of a novel by the legendary Richard Matheson that has awed and unnerved generations of viewers with the question, What is humanity₂s place amid the infinity of the universe? Six months after being exposed to a mysterious radiation cloud, suburban everyman Scott Carey finds himself becoming smaller⁵ and smaller⁵ and smaller until he₂s left to fend...

The only survivor of a worldwide plague that wipes out the entire population fights for his life when the victims come back to life from their graves, thirsting for his blood.