From rec.arts.sf.written Mon Mar 9 11:52:10 1992 Path: herkules.sssab.se!isy!liuida!sunic!seunet!mcsun!uunet!world!jwenn From: jwenn@world.std.com (John C Wenn) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Author Lists: Richard Matheson Message-ID: Date: 9 Mar 92 03:44:00 GMT Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Lines: 63 Richard Matheson is one of the most cinematic SF writers. A number of his books have been made into films: Somewhere in Time, I am Legend (filmed as The Last Man on Earth and as The Omega Man, Hellhouse (filmed as The Legend of Hell House) and The Incredible Shrinking Man. I think that Hellhouse (both the book and movie version) makes an interesting contrast with Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House (filmed as The Haunting). Both deal with a team of psychics investigating a powerful haunted house. Both are wonderful books with excellent movie adaptions, but they have completely different approaches. Matheson's story is a very scientific investigation while Jackson's story is more of a moody psychological piece. In addition to his books, Matheson has written extensively for TV (many Twilight Zones, a Star Trek, The Night Stalker, Duel, Night Gallery and many others) and Movies (several of his own books, several Poe adaptions for Roger Corman, a Twilight Zone segment, and others). [C] == Story Collection. [O] == Omnibus. Includes other books. [Abr.] == Abridgment of other title. [= ...] == Also known by this other title. /John arpa: jwenn@world.std.com abodyonvacationtendstoremainonvacationunlessacteduponbyanoutsideforce-ly ---------------------------------------------------------------- Matheson, Richard (Burton) (U.S.A., 2/20/1926- ) Horrifica Galactica (Bram Stoker for Lifetime Achievement 1991) Bid Time Return (1975) [= Somewhere in Time] Born of Man and Woman (1954) [rev. 1956] [C] Hellhouse (1971) I Am Legend (1954) [= The Omega Man] Richard Matheson: Collected Stories (1989) [C] Shock! (1961) [C] Shock II (1964) [C] Shock III (1966) [C] Shock 4 (1980) [C] Shock Waves (1970) [C] The Shores of Space (1957) [C] Somewhere in Time / What Dreams May Come (1991) [O/2N] The Shrinking Man (1956) [= The Incredible Shrinking Man] A Stir of Echoes (1958) Third from the Sun (1955) [C] [Abr./ Born of Man and Woman] Through Channels (1989) [CB] What Dreams May Come (1978) as Logan Swenson Earthbound (1982) [rev. 1989] Edited with Martin Greenberg and Charles Waugh The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories (1985) Non-Genre Fiction The Bearless Warriors (1960) Fury on Sunday (1953) Journal of the Gun Years (1991) Ride the Nightmare (1959) Someone is Bleeding (1953)