Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson is 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, among others. He was named a Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention, and received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He has also won the Edgar, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. In 2010, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. In addition to his novels, Matheson wrote several screenplays for movies and TV, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," based on his short story, along with several other Twilight Zone episodes. He was born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, and fought in the infantry in World War II. He earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. Matheson died in June, 2013, at the age of eighty-seven.
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A Richard Matheson Collection discounted ebundle includes: Hell House, Somewhere in Time, What Dreams May Come
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The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok and Shadow on the Sun
Richard Matheson
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Two great Western novels at one low price from the New York Times bestselling author, Richard Matheson
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Journal of the Gun Years and The Gun Fight
Richard Matheson
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Journal of the Gun Years and The Gun Fight -- two great novels from New York Times bestselling author, Richard Matheson.
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Other Kingdoms
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In this all-new novel by Richard Matheson, a young American soldier becomes entangled in a web of magic and seduction woven by a witch living in the countryside in post–WWI England.
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Legends of the Gun Years
Richard Matheson
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Together in one volume, the epic stories of two legendary gunfighters!
Journal of the Gun Years
Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Novel
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Hunted Past Reason
Richard Matheson
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It was supposed to be just an ordinary camping trip, two old friends hiking through the woods of northern California. But this self-enforced isolation exposes long-hidden rivalries and resentments...
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Shadow on the Sun
Richard Matheson
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Originally published as a mass-market Western in 1994, Shadow on the Sun has been out of print for years and was largely overlooked by horror fans and general readers.
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The Gun Fight
Richard Matheson
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Sometimes a lie can be more deadly than a six-gun…
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The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok
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The story of a legend . . . as told by a legend
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Journal of the Gun Years
Richard Matheson
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Back East, they told tall tales about Marshall Clay Halser, the fearless Civil War veteran who became known as the "Hero of the Plains" for his daring exploits in the Wild West. But the truth, as...
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Somewhere In Time
Richard Matheson
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Like What Dreams May Come, which inspired the movie starring Robin Williams, Somewhere in Time is the powerful story of a love that transcends time and space, written by one of the...
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Button, Button
Richard Matheson
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What if every time you pushed a button you received $50,000...but someone you didn't know died? Would you still push the button? How many times?
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I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
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Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone.
An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who...
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Earthbound
Richard Matheson
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An Erotic Ghost Story by the Author of Hell House and A Stir of Echoes
David and Ellen Cooper came to the lonely beachside cottage in hopes of rekindling their troubled marriage....
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A Stir of Echoes
Richard Matheson
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This eerie ghost story, from Richard Matheson, the award-winning author of Hell House and I Am Legend, inspired the acclaimed 1999 film starring Kevin Bacon.
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What Dreams May Come
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The New York Times bestseller
A LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS HEAVEN AND HELL
What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short,...
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Now You See It . . .
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Maximillian Delacorte was once the world's greatest stage magician. Now a recluse, suffering from a mysterious disease, he lures his family and associates to his lonely estate for an afternoon of...
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7 Steps to Midnight
Richard Matheson
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New York Times Bestselling Author of I Am Legend
When a mysterious imposter steals his identity and life, mathematician Chris Barton is suddenly thrust into a whirlwind...
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Nightmare At 20,000 Feet
Richard Matheson; With an Introduction by Stephen King
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Remember that monster on the wing of the airplane? William Shatner saw it on The Twilight Zone, John Lithgow saw it in the movie-even Bart Simpson saw it. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is just one of...
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The Beardless Warriors
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In 1944, long before he wrote such classic novels as I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come, author Richard Matheson served as an eighteen-year-old replacement in the 87th...
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
Richard Matheson
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Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller. Once an unremarkable husband and father, Scott finds himself shrinking with no end in sight. His wife and family turn into unreachable giants,...
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Hell House
Richard Matheson
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"Hell House is the scariest haunted house novel ever written. It looms over the rest the way a mountain looms over foothills." --Stephen King
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