Richard Matheson (1926–2013)
Författare till I Am Legend {story collection}
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Richard Matheson was born on February 20, 1926 in Allendale, New Jersey. He was eight when his stories appeared in a local newspaper, the Brooklyn Eagle. He served during World War II. He received a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1949. In 1950 he first was noticed as an visa mer upcoming writer-to-watch, starting with the short story Born of Man and Woman. He wrote numerous novels and short stories during his lifetime including I am Legend, The Shrinking Man, What Dreams May Come, and Hell House. He won the World Fantasy Convention's Life Achievement Award, the Bram Stoker Award for Life Achievement, the Hugo Award, the Golden Spur Award, and the Writer's Guild Award. He also was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010. When Hollywood approached him for the rights to his novel The Shrinking Man, he negotiated the chance to write the screenplay. This began a long career in screenwriting and adapting. He wrote the screenplay for Steven Spielberg's Duel and 16 episodes of the television series The Twilight Zone. He won an Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1973 for The Night Stalker. He died on June 23, 2013 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Särskiljningsinformation:
(eng) Richard Matheson is not the same person as his son, Richard Christian Matheson.
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Serier
Verk av Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson Thrillers: I Am Legend, Someone is Bleeding, Ride the Nightmare, Fury on Sunday (2017) 8 exemplar
Prey 7 exemplar
Visions of Death: Richard Matheson's Edgar Allan Poe Scripts (House of Usher & Pit and the Pendulum) (1894) 6 exemplar
Dance of the Dead 6 exemplar
The Funeral 6 exemplar
Richard Matheson Suspense Novels : The Shrinking Man, Camp Pleasant, Hunger and Thirst, 7 Steps to Midnight (2020) 6 exemplar
Witch War 5 exemplar
Dress of White Silk 5 exemplar
Duel [short story] 5 exemplar
El increíble hombre meguante 5 exemplar
The Distributor [short story] 4 exemplar
The Near Departed 3 exemplar
Mad House 3 exemplar
Buried Talents 3 exemplar
Drink My Blood [short story] 3 exemplar
Gigamesh 42 3 exemplar
Halfwas helden rond Bastogne roman 3 exemplar
Hinter dem Horizont 3 exemplar
He Wanted to Live 3 exemplar
Shoo Fly [short story] 3 exemplar
The Box (2009) 3 exemplar
1984 1/2 3 exemplar
A Caixa 2 exemplar
Hell House 2 exemplar
Em algum lugar do passado 2 exemplar
The Window Of Time 2 exemplar
Shock Wave [short story] 2 exemplar
Short Story Collection Volume I 2 exemplar
Eerste verjaardag 2 exemplar
Where There's a Will 2 exemplar
Man with a Club 2 exemplar
Purge Among Peanuts 2 exemplar
"The Last Blah in the Etc." Chapbook 2 exemplar
A Splendid Source [short story] 2 exemplar
The Likeness of Julie 2 exemplar
Two O'clock Session 2 exemplar
Shipshape Home 1 exemplar
Deadline [short fiction] 1 exemplar
A Casa Infernal 1 exemplar
(all) 1 exemplar
Sorry, Right Number 1 exemplar
The Foodlegger (short story) 1 exemplar
Lemmings 1 exemplar
Professor Fitz and the Runaway House 1 exemplar
Matheson Richard 1 exemplar
Undeva, candva 1 exemplar
Lover When You’re Near Me 1 exemplar
The Twilight Zone: Death Ship the Television Script (Twilight Zone (Harvest Moon)) (2000) 1 exemplar
Varulven — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Brother To The Machine [short story] 1 exemplar
Third From The Sun [short story] 1 exemplar
Der Omega Mann 1 exemplar
Counterfeit Bill 1 exemplar
Les enfants de Noé 1 exemplar
Nat stro 1 exemplar
SHOCK! (1) (i) One; SHOCK (2) (ii) Two; SHOCK (3) (iii) Three; SHOCK WAVES: The Children of Noah; Lemmings; The… (1961) 1 exemplar
Duell 1 exemplar
Mundo dos Vampiros 1 exemplar
Pattern for Survival [short story] 1 exemplar
Fantastic #4 Jan/Feb '53 featuring Mad House 1 exemplar
The Creeping Terror [short story] 1 exemplar
Clothes Make the Man [short story] 1 exemplar
The Jazz Machine [short story] 1 exemplar
’Tis the Season to Be Jelly [short story] 1 exemplar
When the Waker Sleeps 1 exemplar
Dying Room Only [short story] 1 exemplar
The Test [short story] 1 exemplar
Blood Son 1 exemplar
Trespass [novelette] 1 exemplar
When Day Is Dun [short story] 1 exemplar
The Curious Child [short story] 1 exemplar
Person To Person 1 exemplar
From Shadowed Places 1 exemplar
The Last Day [short story] 1 exemplar
Little Girl Lost [short story] 1 exemplar
The Doll That Does Everything [short story] 1 exemplar
A Flourish of Strumpets [short story] 1 exemplar
Born of Man and Woman (abridged) 1 exemplar
Autograph, (Horror Writer), S. 3x5 1 exemplar
A Richard Matheson Collection: Hell House, Somewhere in Time, What Dreams May Come (2019) 1 exemplar
Legion Of Plotters 1 exemplar
Eliminazione lenta 1 exemplar
Button, Button [short story] 1 exemplar
Girl of My Dreams [short story] 1 exemplar
Old Haunts 1 exemplar
The Holiday Man 1 exemplar
The Children of Noah 1 exemplar
Wet Straw 1 exemplar
Long Distance Call 1 exemplar
Finger prints [short story] 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time (1970) — Bidragsgivare — 1,863 exemplar
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old & New (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 519 exemplar
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 263 exemplar
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 193 exemplar
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 184 exemplar
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read with the Door Locked (1975) — Bidragsgivare — 161 exemplar
A Clutch of Vampires: These Being Among the Best from History and Literature (1929) — Bidragsgivare — 100 exemplar
Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1990) — Bidragsgivare — 90 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30-Year Retrospective (1980) — Bidragsgivare — 86 exemplar
La dimension fantastique, Tome 1 : Treize nouvelles de Hoffmann à Claude Seignolle (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 70 exemplar
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 69 exemplar
The Best Horror Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1988) — Bidragsgivare — 46 exemplar
Science Fiction Hall Of Fame Volume Two. The Greatest Science Fiction Stories Of All Time Chosen By The Members Of The… (1970) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 35 exemplar
The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. I (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 27 exemplar
Van Jules Verne tot Isaac Asimov de vijftig beste science fiction verhalen (1981) — Bidragsgivare — 15 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1963, Vol. 24, No. 6 (1963) — Författare — 13 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1962, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1962) — Bidragsgivare — 11 exemplar
Midnite Movies Double Feature: The Fall of the House of Usher / The Pit and the Pendulum (2004) 11 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1957, Vol. 13, No. 4 (1957) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1958, Vol. 15, No. 2 (1958) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Amazing Stories Vol. 27, No. 4 [April-May 1953] — Författare — 4 exemplar
The Day After Doomsday; Earth Abides; I Am Legend; On The Beach; Alas, Babylon; Lucifer's Hammer (Leather Bound)(5… (2012) 2 exemplar
Tordenøglen - og andre historier fra fremmede verdener (1982) — Författare, vissa utgåvor — 2 exemplar
Configurations: American Short Stories for the EFL Classroom, Advanced Level (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Ռիչարդ Մեթսոն
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Matheson, Richard Burton
- Födelsedag
- 1926-02-20
- Avled
- 2013-06-23
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Allendale, New Jersey, USA
- Dödsort
- Calabasas, California, USA
- Bostadsorter
- New York, New York, USA
California, USA - Utbildning
- University of Missouri (BA ∙ journalism ∙ 1949)
- Yrken
- novelist
short-story writer
screenwriter - Relationer
- Matheson, Richard Christian (son)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Bram Stoker Award (Lifetime Achievement, 1990)
International Horror Guild Living Legend (1999)
World Horror Convention Grand Master Award (1993)
SF Hall Of Fame (2010) - Särskiljningsnotis
- Richard Matheson is not the same person as his son, Richard Christian Matheson.
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
I Am Legend - Smeared Ink Chapter headings . . . is it planned, or a printing error? i Folio Society Devotees (december 2022)
What's your Opinion of Richard Matheson? i Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (januari 2011)
Recensioner
Listor
Favourite Books (1)
Overdue Podcast (1)
Best Dystopias (2)
Lucy's Long List (1)
Horror: Top 10 (1)
Which house? (1)
1970s Horror (1)
Macho Fiction (1)
Kayla (2)
Horror Stories (2)
SF Masterworks (2)
1950s (3)
1970s (1)
Ghosts (1)
um actually (1)
SF Masterworks (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 284
- Även av
- 156
- Medlemmar
- 26,229
- Popularitet
- #799
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 853
- ISBN
- 718
- Språk
- 25
- Favoritmärkt
- 104