Richard Matheson

Known for WritingBorn 1926-02-20Died 2013-06-23Allendale, New Jersey, USA

Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is best known as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 science fiction horror novel that has been adapted for the screen three times, the first of which, The Last Man on Earth, was co-scripted by him and starred Vincent Price. (The other two adaptations are The Omega Man with Charlton Heston and I Am Legend with Will Smith.) Matheson also wrote 16 television episodes of The Twilight Zone, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Steel", as well as several adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories for Roger Corman and American International Pictures – House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Tales of Terror and The Raven. He adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" as a screenplay directed by Steven Spielberg for the television film Duel that year. In addition, to I Am Legend and Duel, nine more of his novels and short stories have been adapted as motion pictures: The Shrinking Man (filmed as The Incredible Shrinking Man), Hell House (filmed as The Legend of Hell House), What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere in Time), A Stir of Echoes, Steel (filmed as Real Steel), and Button, Button (filmed as The Box). The movie Cold Sweat was based on his novel Riding the Nightmare, and Les seins de glace ("Icy Breasts") was based on his novel Someone is Bleeding. Both Steel and Button, Button had previously been episodes of The Twilight Zone. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Matheson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration

Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy

The Godfather Part II

The Twilight Zone

Back To "Somewhere In Time"

Star Trek

The Outer Limits

The Twilight Zone

The Dreamer of Oz

Night Gallery

Combat!

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Family Guy

Somewhere in Time

Amazing Stories

I Am Legend

Real Steel

What Dreams May Come

Masters of Horror

Ghost Story

Duel

The Incredible Shrinking Man

Have Gun, Will Travel

The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

The Martian Chronicles

Stir of Echoes

Soy leyenda

The Night Stalker

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Night Strangler

The Young Warriors

The Morning After

The Legend of Hell House

Night of the Eagle

The Stranger Within

House of Usher

Twilight Zone: The Movie

The Shrinking Man

Dying Room Only

Fanatic

Tales of Terror

Thriller

The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver

The Last Man on Earth

The Devil Rides Out

The Life After Death Project

Scream of the Wolf