Richard Burton Matheson
Born	February 20, 1926 (1926-02-20) (age 82) Allendale, New Jersey, United States
Occupation	Novelist, Short story writer,
Nationality	American
Writing period	1950 - Present
Genres	Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror
Influenced Stephen King, Brian Lumley

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Born in Allendale, New Jersey to Norwegian immigrant parents, Matheson was raised in Brooklyn and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1943. He then entered the military and spent World War II as an infantry soldier. In 1949 he earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and moved to California in 1951. He married in 1952 and has four children, three of whom (Chris, Richard Christian, and Ali Matheson) are writers of fiction and screenplays. Allendale is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. ... This article is about the New York City borough, or Kings County, New York. ... Brooklyn Technical High School Brooklyn Tech Entrance Brooklyn Technical High School, commonly called Brooklyn Tech or just Tech, and also administratively sometimes as High School 430, is a New York City public high school that specializes in engineering, math and science and is the largest specialized high school for science... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years. ... Journalism is a discipline of gathering, writing and reporting news, and broadly it includes the process of editing and presenting the news articles. ... This article is about the university in Columbia. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Richard Christian Matheson is an American writer of horror fiction and screenplays. ...

Career

His first short story, "Born of Man and Woman," appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1950. The tale of a monstrous child chained in its parents' cellar, it was told in the first person as the creature's diary (in poignantly non-idiomatic English) and immediately made Matheson famous. Between 1950 and 1971, Matheson produced dozens of stories, frequently blending elements of the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres. This article is in need of attention. ... F&SF April 1971, special Poul Anderson issue. ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar, known as the year of cyclohexanol. ...

Several of his stories, like "Third from the Sun" (1950), "Deadline" (1959) and "Button, Button" (1970) are simple sketches with twist endings; others, like "Trespass" (1953), "Being" (1954) and "Mute" (1962) explore their characters' dilemmas over twenty or thirty pages. Some tales, such as "The Funeral" (1955) and "The Doll that Does Everything" (1954) incorporate zany satirical humour at the expense of genre clichés, and are written in an hysterically overblown prose very different from Matheson's usual pared-down style. Others, like "The Test" (1954) and "Steel" (1956), portray the moral and physical struggles of ordinary people, rather than the then nearly ubiquitous scientists and superheroes, in situations which are at once futuristic and everyday. Still others, such as "Mad House" (1953), "The Curious Child" (1954) and perhaps most famously, "Duel" (1971) are tales of paranoia, in which the everyday environment of the present day becomes inexplicably alien or threatening. A twist ending or surprise ending is an unexpected conclusion or climax to a work of fiction, and which often contains irony or causes the audience to reevaluate the narrative or characters. ... 1867 edition of Punch, a ground-breaking British magazine of popular humour, including a good deal of satire of the contemporary social and political scene. ... For other senses of this word, see paranoia (disambiguation). ...

He wrote a number of episodes for the American TV series The Twilight Zone, including "Steel," mentioned above and the famous "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", plus "Little Girl Lost",a story about a young girl tumbling into the fourth dimension;adapted the works of Edgar Allan Poe for Roger Corman and Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out for Hammer Films; and scripted Steven Spielberg's first feature, the TV movie Duel, from his own short story. He also contributed a number of scripts to the Warner Brothers western series "The Lawman" between 1958 and 1962. In 1973, Matheson earned an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for his teleplay for The Night Stalker, one of two TV movies written by Matheson that preceded the series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Matheson also wrote the screenplay for Fanatic (US title: Die! Die! My Darling!) starring Talullah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers. TV redirects here. ... The Twilight Zone is a television series created by Rod Serling. ... Steel is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone. ... “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone. ... Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, literary critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. ... Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926), sometimes nicknamed King of the Bs for his output of B-movies (though he himself rejects this appellation as inaccurate), is a prolific American producer and director of low-budget exploitation movies, many of which are some of the most influential movies made. ... Dennis Wheatley (8 January 1897-10 November 1977) was a British writer born in London. ... Hammer horror refers to horror films produced in the late 1950s through the 1970s by the British film studio Hammer Films. ... Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946)[1] is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. ... Duel is a 1971 telemovie about a trucker harassing a motorist on a remote and lonely road. ... The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. ... Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers, based in New York. ... Darren McGavin as Kolchak in The Night Stalker (1972) Kolchak: The Night Stalker is a television series that aired on ABC in 1974, about a newpaper reporter -- Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin -- who investigates crimes with mysterious and unlikely causes that the proper authorities wont accept. ... Tallulah Bankhead as the Fanatic Fanatic (US: Die! Die! My Darling!) is a 1965 British thriller directed by Silvio Narizzano for Hammer Films. ... Tallulah Bankhead, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 - December 12, 1968) was a United States actress, talk-show host, and bon vivant, born in Huntsville, Alabama. ... Stefanie Powers with Robert Wagner Stefanie Powers (born Stefania Zofia Federkiewicz[1] on November 2, 1942) is an American stage and film actress and singer. ...

Novels include The Shrinking Man (filmed as The Incredible Shrinking Man, again from Matheson's own screenplay), and a science fiction vampire novel, I Am Legend, (filmed as The Omega Man, The Last Man on Earth and I Am Legend). Other Matheson novels turned into notable films include What Dreams May Come, Stir of Echoes, Bid Time Return (as Somewhere in Time), and Hell House (as The Legend of Hell House) and the aforementioned Duel, the last three adapted and scripted by Matheson himself. Three of his short stories were filmed together as Trilogy of Terror, including "Prey" with its famous Zuni warrior doll. The Incredible Shrinking Man is a 1957 science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold and adapted for the screen by Richard Matheson from his novel The Shrinking Man. ... Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897 Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings that subsist on human and/or animal lifeforce. ... This article is about Richard Mathesons novel. ... The Omega Man is a 1971 science fiction thriller starring Charlton Heston. ... The Last Man on Earth (originally titled LUltimo uomo della Terra) is a 1964 film based upon the Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend. ... I Am Legend is a 2007 post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith. ... DVD cover for What Dreams May Come What Dreams May Come is an Academy Award-winning 1998 dramatic film, starring Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr. ... Stir of Echoes is an supernatural/ Thriller American film which was released in 1999 starring Kevin Bacon and directed by David Koepp. ... Bid Time Return is a 1975 science fiction novel by Richard Matheson. ... This article is about the 1980 film. ... Hell House is a novel by American novelist Richard Matheson, published in 1971. ... The Legend of Hell House is a 1973 horror film by Academy Pictures. ... Duel is a 1971 telemovie about a trucker harassing a motorist on a remote and lonely road. ... Trilogy of Terror (also known in the United States as Tales of Terror and Terror of the Doll ) is a three part television horror thriller film, first aired on ABC on March 4, 1975. ...

In 1960, Matheson published The Beardless Warriors, a nonfantastic, autobiographical novel about teenage American soldiers in World War II. During the 1950s he published a handful of Western stories (later collected in By the Gun); and during the 1990s he published Western novels such as Journal of the Gun Years, The Gunfight, The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok and Shadow on the Sun. He has also written a blackly comic locked-room mystery novel, Now You See It..., aptly dedicated to Robert Bloch, and the suspense novels 7 Steps to Midnight and Hunted Past Reason. Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Not to be confused with William Wild Bill Hickok, American football player. ... A locked room mystery in crime fiction is a story in which the reader is presented with a puzzle and encouraged to solve it before finishing the story and being told the solution. ... Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917, Chicago-September 23, 1994, Los Angeles) was a prolific American writer. ...

Matheson cites specific inspirations for many of his works. Duel derived from an incident in which he and a friend, Jerry Sohl, were dangerously tailgated by a large truck on the same day as the Kennedy assassination. A scene from the 1953 movie Let's Do It Again in which Aldo Ray and Ray Milland put on each other's hats, one of which is far too big for the other, sparked the thought "what if someone put on his own hat and that happened," which became The Shrinking Man. Somewhere in Time began when Matheson saw a movie poster featuring a beautiful picture of Maude Adams and wondered what would happen if someone fell in love with such an old picture. In the introduction to Noir: 3 Novels of Suspense (1997), which collects three of his early books, Matheson has said that the first chapter of his suspense novel Someone is Bleeding (1953) describes exactly his meeting with his wife Ruth, and that in the case of What Dreams May Come, "the whole novel is filled with scenes from our past". Gerald Allan Sohl Sr. ... John F. Kennedy The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 PM Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC). ... Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Lets Do It Again. ... Aldo Ray, also known as Aldo DaRe (25 September 1926 - 27 March 1991) was an American film actor. ... Ray Milland (January 3, 1905 or 1907 – March 10, 1986) was an Oscar-winning Welsh actor and director who worked primarily in the United States. ... Maude Adams (1902) Maude Adams as Peter in an early stage production Maude Adams (born November 11, 1872; died July 17, 1953) was an American stage actress, most noted for her signature role, Peter Pan. ...

According to film critic Roger Ebert, Matheson's scientific approach to the supernatural in I Am Legend and other novels from the 1950s and early 1960s "anticipated pseudorealistic fantasy novels like Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist."^[1] Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films, individually and collectively. ... Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... For the film based on the novel, see Rosemarys Baby (film). ... The Exorcist is a horror novel written by William Peter Blatty first published in 1971. ...

Homages

A character named "Senator Richard Matheson" appeared in several episodes of The X-Files. The series's creator, Chris Carter, was a fan of Matheson's work on two series that influenced The X-Files (The Twilight Zone and Kolchak: The Night Stalker). Also, the TV series adaptation of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids had the Szalinski family relocating to the town of Matheson, Colorado. The X-Files is an American Peabody, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning science fiction television series created by Chris Carter, which first aired on 10 September 1993, and ended on 19 May 2002. ... Chris Carter (born October 13, 1956) is an American Jewish screenwriter and producer, best known as the creator of The X-Files. ... Darren McGavin as Kolchak in The Night Stalker (1972) Kolchak: The Night Stalker is a television series that aired on ABC in 1974, about a newpaper reporter -- Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin -- who investigates crimes with mysterious and unlikely causes that the proper authorities wont accept. ... Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a 1989 comedy film released through Walt Disney Pictures. ...

The telepath "John Matheson" in Crusade was named in honor of Matheson. Crusade is a spin-off TV show from J. Michael Straczynskis Babylon 5. ...

Stephen King has listed Richard Matheson as a creative influence and his novel Cell is dedicated to Matheson, along with filmmaker George A. Romero. For other persons named Stephen King, see Stephen King (disambiguation). ... Cell is an apocalyptic horror novel published by American author Stephen King in January 2006. ... George Andrew Romero (born February 4, 1940) is an American director, writer, editor and actor. ...

Matheson St. in the Konami game, Silent Hill was named in his honor. Konami Corporation ) (TYO: 9766 NYSE: KNM SGX: K20) is a leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines and video games. ... This article is about the video game franchise. ...

Richard's son, Richard Christian Matheson, penned the screenplay for "Battleground" for the first segment of Stephen King's Nightmares & Dreamscapes. He paid homage to his father by including the Zuni fetish doll from the last segment of Trilogy of Terror in a scene. Richard Christian Matheson is an American writer of horror fiction and screenplays. ... Battleground is a 1978 horror story by Stephen King published in Night Shift collection. ... Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King is an eight-episode anthology on TNT based on short stories written by Stephen King. ... The Zuni (also spelled Zuñi) or Ashiwi are a Native American tribe, one of the Pueblo peoples, most of whom live in the Pueblo of Zuñi on the Zuni River, a tributary of the Little Colorado River, in western New Mexico. ... Trilogy of Terror (also known in the United States as Tales of Terror and Terror of the Doll ) is a three part television horror thriller film, first aired on ABC on March 4, 1975. ...

In Richard Christian Matheson's novel Created By, the hero's father is named Burt, a reference to Matheson senior's middle name.

Richard Christian Matheson re-wrote his father's short story "Dance of the Dead" for the TV series Masters of Horror. It was directed by Tobe Hooper and starred Robert Englund and Ryan McDonald. Dance of the Dead is the third episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. ... Masters of Horror is an American television series created by director Mick Garris for the Showtime cable network. ... Tobe Hooper (born Tobias Paul Hooper on January 25, 1943) is an American television and film director best known for his work in the horror film genre, including Lifeforce, Poltergeist, Toolbox Murders and the cult classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). ... Robert Barton Englund (born June 6th, 1949), is an American actor from Glendale, California. ...

Bibliography

Novels

• Someone is Bleeding (1953)
• Fury on Sunday (1953)
• I Am Legend (1954) filmed as The Last Man on Earth, The Omega Man & I Am Legend
• The Shrinking Man (1956); filmed as The Incredible Shrinking Man and subsequently reprinted under that title; also the basis of the film The Incredible Shrinking Woman
• A Stir of Echoes (1958); filmed as Stir of Echoes
• Ride the Nightmare (1959)
• The Beardless Warriors (1960)
• Comedy of Terrors with Elsie Lee (1964); filmed as The Comedy of Terrors
• Hell House (1971); filmed as The Legend of Hell House
• The Night Stalker with Jeff Rice (1972)
• The Night Strangler (1973)
• Bid Time Return (1975); filmed as Somewhere in Time and subsequently reprinted under that title
• What Dreams May Come (1978); filmed as What Dreams May Come
• Earthbound (editorially abridged version published under the pseudonym "Logan Swanson" 1982; restored text published under Matheson's own name 1989)
• Journal of the Gun Years (1992)
• The Gunfight (1993)
• 7 Steps to Midnight (1993)
• Shadow on the Sun (1994)
• Now You See It... (1995)
• The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickock (1996)
• Passion Play (2000)
• Hunger and Thirst (2000)
• Camp Pleasant (2001)
• Abu and the 7 Marvels (2002)
• Hunted Past Reason (2002)
• Come Fygures, Come Shadowes (2003)
• Woman (2006)

This article is about Richard Mathesons novel. ... The Last Man on Earth (originally titled LUltimo uomo della Terra) is a 1964 film based upon the Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend. ... The Omega Man is a 1971 science fiction thriller starring Charlton Heston. ... I Am Legend is a 2007 post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith. ... The Incredible Shrinking Man is a 1957 science fiction film directed by Jack Arnold and adapted for the screen by Richard Matheson from his novel The Shrinking Man. ... The Incredible Shrinking Woman is a 1981 science fiction/comedy film, starring Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, John Glover and Elizabeth Wilson, and directed by Joel Schumacher. ... A Stir of Echoes is a 1958 novel by Richard Matheson that served as the inspiration for the 1999 film, Stir of Echoes. ... Stir of Echoes is an supernatural/ Thriller American film which was released in 1999 starring Kevin Bacon and directed by David Koepp. ... ‹ The template below (Expand) is being considered for deletion. ... A hell house, also commonly known as a Doom House, is a haunted house-style attraction typically run by North American fundamentalist Christian churches or parachurch groups. ... The Legend of Hell House is a 1973 horror film by Academy Pictures. ... Bid Time Return is a 1975 science fiction novel by Richard Matheson. ... This article is about the 1980 film. ... DVD cover for What Dreams May Come What Dreams May Come is an Academy Award-winning 1998 dramatic film, starring Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr. ... This article is about the film. ... For other uses, see Alias. ...

Short stories

• "Born of Man and Woman" (1950)
• "Third from the Sun" (1950); adapted as a Twilight Zone episode (1960)
• "The Waker Dreams" (AKA "When the Waker Sleeps") (1950)
• "Through Channels" (1951)
• "Clothes Make the Man" (1951)
• "Return" (1951)
• "The Thing" (1951)
• "Witch War" (1951)
• "Dress of White Silk" (1951)
• "F---" (AKA "The Foodlegger") (1952)
• "Shipshape Home" (1952)
• "SRL Ad" (1952)
• "Advance Notice" (AKA "Letter to the Editor") (1952)
• "Lover, When You're Near Me" (1952)
• "To Fit the Crime" (1952)
• "The Wedding" (1953)
• "Wet Straw" (1953)
• "Long Distance Call" (AKA "Sorry, Right Number") (1953)
• "Slaughter House" (1953)
• "Mad House" (1953)
• "The Last Day" (1953)
• "Lazarus II" (1953)
• "Legion of Plotters" (1953)
• "Death Ship" (1953)
• "Disappearing Act" (1953)
• "The Disinheritors" (1953)
• "Dying Room Only" (1953)
• "Full Circle" (1953)
• "Mother by Protest" (AKA "Trespass") (1953)
• "Little Girl Lost" (1953)
• "The Curious Child" (1954)
• "When Day Is Dun" (1954)
• "Dance of the Dead" (1954)
• "The Traveller" (1954)
• "The Test" (1954)
• "The Conqueror" (1954)
• "Dear Diary" (1954)
• "The Doll That Does Everything" (1954)
• "Descent" (1954)
• "Miss Stardust" (1955)
• "The Funeral" (1955)
• "Too Proud to Lose" (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)
• "A Visit to Santa Claus" (AKA "I'll Make It Look Good," as Logan Swanson) (1957)
• "The Holiday Man" (1957)
• "Old Haunts" (1957)
• "The Distributor" (1958)
• "The Edge" (1958)
• "Lemmings" (1958)
• "Mantage" (1959)
• "Deadline" (1959)
• "The Creeping Terror" (AKA "A Touch of Grapefruit") (1959)
• "No Such Thing as a Vampire" (1959)
• "Crickets" (1960)
• "Day of Reckoning" (AKA "The Faces," "Graveyard Shift") (1960)
• "First Anniversary" (1960)
• "From Shadowed Places" (1960)
• "Finger Prints" (1962)
• "Mute" (1962)
• "The Likeness of Julie" (as Logan Swanson) (1962)
• "The Jazz Machine" (1963)
• "Crescendo" (AKA "Shock Wave") (1963)
• "Girl of My Dreams" (1963)
• "'Tis the Season to Be Jelly" (1963)
• "Deus Ex Machina" (1963)
• "Interest" (1965)
• "A Drink of Water" (1967)
• "Needle in the Heart" (AKA "Therese") (1969)
• "Prey" (1969) (Later adapted to the Zuni Fetish Doll, in the Trilogy of Terror)
• "Button, Button" (1970); filmed as The Box (2008)
• "'Til Death Do Us Part" (1970)
• "By Appointment Only" (1970)
• "The Finishing Touches" (1970)
• "Duel" (1971); filmed as Duel (1971)
• "Where There's a Will" (with Richard Christian Matheson) (1980)
• "And Now I'm Waiting" (1983)
• "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (as The Twilight Zone episode in 1963; as segment four of Twilight Zone: The Movie, 1983; first published in 1984)
• "Getting Together" (1986)
• "The Near Departed" (1987)
• "Shoo Fly" (1988)
• "Person to Person" (1989)
• "Two O'Clock Session" (1991)
• "The Doll" (as Twilight Zone episode in 1982, published as story in 1993)
• "Go West, Young Man" (1993)
• "Gunsight" (1993)
• "Little Jack Cornered" (1993)
• "Of Death and Thirty Minutes" (1993)

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Short story collections

• Born of Man and Woman (1954)
• The Shores of Space (1957)
• Shock! (1961)
• Shock 2 (1964)
• Shock 3 (1966)
• Shock Waves (1970)
• Button, Button (1970) being filmed as The Box
• Shock 4 (1980)
• Richard Matheson: Collected Stories (1989)
• By the Gun (1993)
• Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (2000)
• Pride with Richard Christian Matheson (2002)
• Duel (2002)
• Offbeat: Uncollected Stories (2002)
• Darker Places (2004)
• Unrealized Dreams (2004)

The Box is a film written and directed by Richard Kelly (based on the story Button, Button written by Richard Matheson). ...

Nonfiction

• The Path: Metaphysics for the 90s (1993)

Additional reading

• California Sorcery, edited by William F. Nolan and William Schafer

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References

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Richard Matheson

• Six Degrees of Inspiration: Richard Matheson by MR Hunter
• Interview of Matheson by MR Hunter
• Richard Matheson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Offical Somewhere In Time Website (INSITE)
• Review of I Am Legend
• Interview in Actusf.com (in French)
• Matheson biography at tabula-rasa.info
• Richard Matheson featured on AMC-TV's Sci-Fi Department webshow
• The I Am Legend Book Archive
• Richard Matheson at the Internet Movie Database