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- Legal Name: Matheson, Richard Burton
- Birthplace: Allendale, New Jersey, USA
- Birthdate: 20 February 1926
- Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Matheson
- IMDB Entry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0558577/
- Webpage: http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/matheson_richard
- Used These Alternate Names: Logan Swanson
- Interviews: Richard Matheson Interview , A Richard Matheson Update , Master of Imagination , Richard Matheson and the TV Movie , Richard Matheson and the Vampire Story , Richard Matheson , TZ Interview: Richard Matheson on 'The Honorable Tradition of Writing' , TZ Interview: Richard Matheson: Spinning fantasy from daily life , A Conversation with Richard Matheson & R. C. Matheson , A Conversation with Richard Matheson , A Conversation with Richard Matheson , TZ Interview: Richard Matheson , The Legend of Richard Matheson , Richard Matheson & Richard Christian Matheson: March 21, 1994 , Richard Matheson Interview
- ISFDB Record Number: 531
- Biography: Bio:Richard Matheson
- Bibliographic Comments: Author:Richard Matheson
- Author Tags: horror (13) , vampires (4) , dark fantasy (3) , into-movie (3) , ghosts (2) , possession (2) , zombies (2) , survival (2) , Merril01 (2) , world fantasy award for best novel winner (1) , telepathy (1) , haunted house (1) , post apocalypse (1) , murder (1) , Suspense (1) , young-adult fantasy (1) , near future (1) , war (1) , witches (1) , Fear (1) , female main character (1) , Merril03 (1) , Merril02 (1) , Merril04 (1) , Merril06 (1)
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- Kolchak
- Richard Matheson's Kolchak Scripts (2004) [C]
- Richard Matheson: Collected Stories
- 1 Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Volume One (2003) [C]
- 2 Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Volume Two (2005) [C]
- 3 Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Volume Three (2005) [C]
- Richard Matheson: Collected Stories (1989) [C]
- Shock
- 1
Shock! (1961) [C]
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Shock I: Thirteen Tales to Thrill and Terrify (1979)
- 2 Shock II (1964) [C]
- 3 Shock III (1966) [C]
- 4
Shock Waves (1970) [C]
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Shock 4 (1980)
- 1
Shock! (1961) [C]
also appeared as:
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I Am Legend (1954)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: The Omega Man: I Am Legend (unknown)
-
The Shrinking Man (1956)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1956)
- A Stir of Echoes (1958)
- Hell House (1971)
-
Bid Time Return (1975)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Somewhere in Time (1980)
- What Dreams May Come (1978)
- Earthbound (1982) [also as by Logan Swanson ]
- Seven Steps to Midnight (1993)
- Shadow on the Sun (1995)
- Now You See It . . . (1995)
- Camp Pleasant (2001)
- Abu and the Seven Marvels (2001)
- Hunted Past Reason (2002)
- Come Fygures, Come Shadowes (2003)
- Woman (2005)
- The Link (2006)
- Other Kingdoms (2011)
- Born of Man and Woman (1954)
- Third from the Sun (1955)
- The Shores of Space (1957)
- De Laatste Dag (1968)
- Stalen Jongens, Felle Knapen (1971)
- Nat Stro (1976)
- Regola per sopravvivere (1977)
- Miasmes de mort (1978)
- Les mondes macabres (1978)
- Le livre d'or de la Science-Fiction : Richard Matheson (1981)
- By the Gun (1994)
- I Am Legend (collection) (1995)
- The Incredible Shrinking Man (1995)
- Richard Matheson's "The Twilight Zone" Scripts (1998)
- Shock - Prima Parte - (2000)
- Shock Seconda parte (2001)
- Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (2002)
- Richard Matheson's "The Twilight Zone" Scripts Volume Two (2002)
- Duel: Terror Stories By Richard Matheson (2003)
- Off Beat: Uncollected Stories (2003)
- Darker Places (2004)
- Unrealized Dreams (2004)
- Duel & the Distributor: Stories & Screenplays (2004)
- Matheson Uncollected: Volume One (2008)
-
Button, Button: Uncanny Stories (2008)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: The Box: Uncanny Stories (2009)
- Visions Deferred: Richard Matheson's Censored I Am Legend Script (2009)
- Matheson Uncollected: Volume Two (2010)
- Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (2011)
- Steel and Other Stories (2011)
- Matheson Uncollected: Backteria and Other Improbable Tales (2013)
- Somewhere in Time / What Dreams May Come (1991) [O]
- Noir: Three Novels of Suspense (1997) [O]
- I Am Legend / Hell House (2006) [O]
- Legends of the Gun Years (2010) [O]
- Twilight Zone: The Original Stories (1985) with Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh [only as by Charles G. Waugh and Richard Matheson and Martin Harry Greenberg ]
- Through Channels (1989)
- Purge Among Peanuts (2001)
- The Prisoner (2001)
- The Path: A New Look At Reality (1993)
- Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master (1995) with Ricia Mainhardt
- Someone Is Bleeding (1953)
- Fury On Sunday (1953)
- Ride the Nightmare (1959)
- The Beardless Warriors (1960)
- Journal of the Gun Years (1991)
-
The Gun Fight (1993)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: The Gunfight (1993)
- The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok (1996)
- Passion Play (2000)
- Generations (2012)
- Born of Man and Woman (1950)
- Third from the Sun (1950)
-
The Waker Dreams (1950)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: When the Waker Sleeps (1950)
- The Hunt (1951)
- Clothes Make the Man (1951)
- Through Channels (1951)
-
"Drink My Red Blood . . ." (1951)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Blood Son (1951)
- Variant Title: Drink My Blood (1951)
- Variant Title: Drink My Red Blood (1951)
- The Thing (1951)
- Witch War (1951)
- Dress of White Silk (1951)
- Return (1951)
- Gunsight (1951)
- Mountains of the Mind (1951)
-
Richard Matheson's Letter to the Editor (1952)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Advance Notice (1952)
- SRL Ad (1952)
-
The Foodlegger (1952)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: F--- (1952)
-
Lover When You're Near Me (1952)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Lover, When You're Near Me (1952)
- Variant Title: La piovra immonda (1953)
- Shipshape Home (1952)
- To Fit the Crime (1952)
- Brother to the Machine (1952)
- Disappearing Act (1953) with Alfred Bester
- Mad House (1953)
- Wet Straw (1953)
- The Disinheritors (1953)
- Disappearing Act (1953)
- Death Ship (1953)
- The Last Day (1953)
- Slaughter House (1953)
- The Wedding (1953)
- Lazarus II (1953)
- Legion of Plotters (1953)
- Full Circle (1953)
-
Mother by Protest (1953)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Trespass (1953)
- Little Girl Lost (1953)
- Dying Room Only (1953)
-
Sorry, Right Number (1953)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Long Distance Call (1953)
- Dear Diary (1954)
- Go West, Young Man (1954)
- I Am Legend (excerpt) (1954)
- The Man Who Made the World (1954)
- The Traveller (1954)
- Descent (1954)
- When Day Is Dun (1954)
- The Conqueror (1954)
- The Curious Child (1954)
- Being (1954)
- The Test (1954)
- The Doll That Does Everything (1954)
- Dance of the Dead (1955)
- Too Proud to Lose (1955)
- The Funeral (1955)
- Miss Stardust (1955)
- Pattern for Survival (1955)
- One for the Books (1955)
- Boy in the Rocks (1955)
- Steel (1956)
- The Splendid Source (1956)
- A Flourish of Strumpets (1956)
- The Children of Noah (1957)
-
A Visit to Santa Claus (1957)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: I'll Make It Look Good (1957) [as by Logan Swanson ]
- The Holiday Man (1957)
- Old Haunts (1957)
- Lemmings (1958)
- The Distributor (1958)
- The Edge (1958)
- Mantage (1959)
- Big Surprise (1959)
-
A Touch of Grapefruit (1959)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: The Creeping Terror (1961)
- No Such Thing as a Vampire (1959)
- Deadline (1959)
- Graveyard Shift (1960)
- Day of Reckoning (1960)
- Crickets (1960)
- First Anniversary (1960)
- From Shadowed Places (1960)
- The Likeness of Julie (1962) [also as by Logan Swanson ]
- Mute (1962)
- Finger Prints (1962)
-
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1962)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Nightmare at Twenty Thousand Feet (1962)
- 'Tis the Season to Be Jelly (1963)
-
Crescendo (1963)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Shock Wave (1963)
- Girl of My Dreams (1963)
- Deus Ex Machina (1963)
- Interest (1965)
- Star Trek: "The Enemy Within" (1966)
- A Drink of Water (1967)
- Prey (1969)
-
Therese (1969)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Needle in the Heart (1969)
- Come Fygures, Come Shadowes (1970)
- By Appointment Only (1970)
- Button, Button (1970)
-
The Finishing Touches (1970)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Finishing Touches (1970)
- Duel (1971)
- Leo Rising (1972)
- Where There's a Will (1980) with Richard Christian Matheson [also as by Richard Matheson and Christian Matheson ]
- Bobby (1981)
- Bobby (1981)
- The Doll (1982)
- And Now I'm Waiting (1983)
- A World of His Own (teleplay) (1983)
- Blunder Buss (1984)
- Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (teleplay) (1984)
- Getting Together (1986)
- Buried Talents (1987)
- The Near Departed (1987)
-
Shoo Fly (1988)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Shoofly (unknown)
- Person to Person (1989)
- 'Til Death Do Us Part (1989)
- CU: Mannix (1991)
- Two O'Clock Session (1991)
- The Legend of Hell House (1997)
- A World of Difference (teleplay) (1998)
- The Last Flight (teleplay) (1998)
- A World of His Own (teleplay) (1998)
- Nick of Time (teleplay) (1998)
- The Invaders (teleplay) (1998)
- Once Upon a Time (teleplay) (1998)
- Little Girl Lost (teleplay) (1998)
- Always Before Your Voice (1999)
- Relics (1999)
- And in Sorrow (2000)
- The Prisoner (2001)
- Purge Among Peanuts (2001)
- Spur of the Moment (teleplay) (2002)
- Night Call (teleplay) (2002)
- That Was Yesterday (2002)
- Death Ship (teleplay) (2002)
- Mute (teleplay) (2002)
- Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (teleplay) (2002)
- Steel (teleplay) (2002)
- Mirror, Mirror . . . (2003)
- All and Only Silence (2003)
- Maybe You Remember Him (2003)
- Phone Call From Across the Street (2003)
- The Night Strangler (teleplay) (2004)
- The Night Stalker (teleplay) (2004)
- The Night Killers (teleplay) (2004) with William F. Nolan
- Intergalactic Report (2004)
- The Hill (2004)
- Cassidy's Shoes (2004)
- The Puppy (2004)
- Revolution (2004)
- Creature: A Screenplay (2004)
- Little Girl Knocking at My Door (2004)
- Haircut (2006)
- Man with a Club (2008)
- Professor Fritz and the Runaway House (2008)
- Colony Seven: An Unpublished Novel (2008)
- Life Size (2008)
- He Wanted to Live (2008)
- The Last Blah in the ETC (2008)
- Counterfeit Bills (2008)
- 1984 1/2 (2008)
- Pride (2008)
- Original Screenplay: Conjure Wife (2009) with Charles Beaumont
- Madri-Gall (a skit for the stage) (2009) with Richard Christian Matheson
- Now Die in It (2010)
- Portrait (2010)
- Portrait Illustration (2010)
- An Element Never Forgets (2010)
- Red is the Color of Desire (2010)
- The House of the Dead (2010)
- What Dreams May Come (screenplay) (2010)
- The Window of Time (2010)
- Dr. Morton's Folly (2011)
- Backteria (2013)
- A Murder Story Told In Two Hundred Clichés (2013)
- My Conversation with Superman (2013)
- Little Jack Cornered (unknown)
- Of Death and Thirty Minutes (unknown)
- The Jazz Machine (1962)
- Contributors... (1951)
- They Write . . . (1952)
- Afterword (Magic Man and Other Science-Fantasy Stories) (1965)
- To the Reader (What Dreams May Come) (1977)
- Introduction (Rod Serling's Other Worlds) (1978)
- And From Richard Matheson (1979)
- Ce que je crois (1981)
- Matheson-Editors Correspondence (1982) with Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas
- The Doll (teleplay) (1982)
- SF Unlimited (1984)
- Matheson Looks at His 'Nightmare' (1984)
- Introduction (The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories) (1985)
- More Than We Appear to Be (1985)
- Introduction to "Last Rites" (1988)
- Preface (Holiday) (1988)
- Dream/Press Introduction (Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Volume Two) (1989)
- Introduction (Richard Matheson:Collected Stories) (1989)
- An Open Letter to Robert Bloch (Psycho) (1994)
- Preface (What Dreams May Come) (1998)
- To the Reader (The Path: A New Look At Reality) (1999)
- Afterword (Taps and Sighs) (2000)
- Introduction (A Touch of the Creature) (2000)
- Introduction (Helltracks) (2000)
- Introduction (The Shrinking Man) (2001)
- Afterword (Off Beat: Uncollected Stories) (2003)
- Gauntlet Press Introduction 2003 (Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Volume Two) (2003)
- A Tribute to Jerry Sohl (2003)
- Afterword (Come Fygures, Come Shadowes) (2003)
- Introduction to Creature (2004)
- Introduction (Darker Places) (2004)
- Appreciation (The Complete Twilight Zone Scripts of Rod Serling, Vol. 1) (2004)
- Foreward, Backward, Upside Downward (Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World's Greatest Horror Writers) (2005)
- Introduction (Match to Flame: The Fictional Path to Fahrenheit 451) (2006)
- Introduction (Button, Button) (2008)
- Appreciations for William F. Nolan, The Multi-Genre Man (2008) with Joe R. Lansdale and John Maclay and Frank M. Robinson and Christopher Conlon and Gary A. Braunbeck
- For Ray Bradbury (2009)