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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/
- 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's Kolchak Scripts) , Richard Matheson and the Vampire Story (Richard Matheson's Kolchak Scripts) , Richard Matheson (Dark Dreamers: Conversations With the Masters of Horror)
- Biography: Bio:Richard Matheson
- Bibliographic Comments: Author:Richard Matheson
- Author Tags: horror (11) , into-movie (3) , dark fantasy (2) , ghosts (2) , possession (2) , vampires (2) , survival (2) , Merril01 (2) , telepathy (1) , haunted house (1) , murder (1) , Suspense (1) , near future (1) , war (1) , witches (1) , Fear (1) , female main character (1) , Merril03 (1) , Merril02 (1) , Merril04 (1) , Merril06 (1)
- Richard Matheson: Collected Stories
- Richard Matheson: Collected Stories (1988) [C]
- 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]
- I Am Legend (1954)
-
The Shrinking Man (1956)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1956)
- Magazine Appearances:
- The Shrinking Man (Complete Novel) (1962)
-
A Stir of Echoes (1958)
also appeared as:
- Magazine Appearances:
- A Stir of Echoes (Complete Novel) (1959)
- 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)
- The Path: A New Look At Reality (1999)
- Camp Pleasant (2001)
- Abu and the Seven Marvels (2001)
- Hunted Past Reason (2002)
- Woman (2005)
- The Link (2006)
- Visions Deferred: Richard Matheson's Censored I Am Legend Script (2009)
- Born of Man and Woman (1954)
- Third from the Sun (1955)
- The Shores of Space (1957)
- I Am Legend (collection) (1995)
- The Incredible Shrinking Man (1995)
- Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories (2002)
- Off Beat (2002)
- Duel: Terror Stories By Richard Matheson (2003)
- Richard Matheson's Kolchak Scripts (2004)
- Darker Places (2004)
- Unrealized Dreams (2004)
- Duel & the Distributor: Stories & Screenplays (2004)
- The Richard Matheson Companion (2007)
- Button, Button: Uncanny Stories (2008)
- Somewhere in Time / What Dreams May Come (1991) [O]
- I Am Legend/Hell House (2006) [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 ]
- Someone Is Bleeding (1953)
- Fury On Sunday (1953)
- Ride the Nightmare (1959)
- The Beardless Warriors (1960)
- Journal of the Gun Years (1991)
- The Gunfight (1993)
- By the Gun (1994)
- The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok (1996)
- Little Jack Cornered (unknown)
- Of Death and Thirty Minutes (unknown)
- Born of Man and Woman (1950)
- Third from the Sun (1950)
-
The Waker Dreams (1950)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: When the Waker Sleeps (1966)
- When the Waker Sleeps (1950)
- Gunsight (1951)
- Clothes Make the Man (1951)
- Through Channels (1951)
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"Drink My Red Blood . . ." (1951)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Blood Son (1957)
- Variant Title: Drink My Blood (1968)
- Blood Son (1951)
- The Thing (1951)
- Witch War (1951)
- Dress of White Silk (1951)
- Return (1951)
- Mountains of the Mind (1951)
-
Richard Matheson's Letter to the Editor (1952)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Letter to the Editor (1952)
- Variant Title: Advance Notice (1970)
- Advance Notice (1952)
- SRL Ad (1952)
- The Foodlegger (1952) also appeared as:
- F- (1952)
-
Lover When You're Near Me (1952)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Lover, When You're Near Me (1952)
- 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 (1957)
- Little Girl Lost (1953)
- Dying Room Only (1953)
-
Sorry, Right Number (1953)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Long Distance Call (1953)
- Dear Diary (1954)
- The Traveller (1954)
- Go West, Young Man (1954)
- The Conqueror (1954)
- The Man Who Made the World (1954)
- Descent (1954)
- When Day Is Dun (1954)
- The Curious Child (1954)
- Being (1954)
- The Test (1954)
- The Doll That Does Everything (1954)
- Boy in the Rocks (1955)
- Too Proud to Lose (1955)
- Dance of the Dead (1955)
- The Funeral (1955)
- Miss Stardust (1955)
- Pattern for Survival (1955)
- One for the Books (1955)
- A Flourish of Strumpets (1956)
- Steel (1956)
- The Splendid Source (1956)
- The Children of Noah (1957)
- 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)
- And When the Sky Was Opened (1959)
- Graveyard Shift (1960)
- Day of Reckoning (1960)
- Crickets (1960)
- First Anniversary (1960)
- From Shadowed Places (1960)
- From Shadowed Places (1961)
-
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1962)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Nightmare at Twenty Thousand Feet (1962)
- The Likeness of Julie (1962) [also as by Logan Swanson ]
- Mute (1962)
- Finger Prints (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)
- A Drink of Water (1967)
- Prey (1969)
-
Therese (1969)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Needle in the Heart (1969)
- The Finishing Touches (1970)
- Come Fygures, Come Shadowes (1970)
-
A Visit to Santa Claus (1970)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: I'll Make It Look Good (1957) [as by Logan Swanson ]
- By Appointment Only (1970)
- Button, Button (1970)
- The Night Stalker (1971)
- Duel (1971)
- The Night Strangler (1972)
- Where There's a Will (1980) with Richard Christian Matheson
- The Doll (1982)
- And Now I'm Waiting (1983)
- Blunder Buss (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)
- Finishing Touches (1989)
- 'Til Death Do Us Part (1989)
- Two O'Clock Session (1991)
- The Legend of Hell House (1997)
- Always Before Your Voice (1999)
- Mirror, Mirror . . . (2002)
- And in Sorrow (2002)
- All and Only Silence (2002)
- Maybe You Remember Him (2002)
- Phone Call From Across the Street (2002)
- The Prisoner (2002)
- Relics (2002)
- Two O'clock Session (2002)
- The Night Killers (2003) 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)
- A World of His Own (2008)
- The Jazz Machine (1962)
- Contributors... (1951)
- They Write... (1952)
- Afterword (Magic Man and Other Science-Fantasy Stories) (1965)
- Introduction (Rod Serling's Other Worlds) (1978)
- Matheson-Editors Correspondence (1982) with Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas
- Introduction (The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories) (1985)
- Introduction to ``Last Rites'' (1988)
- Introduction (Richard Matheson:Collected Stories) (1989)
- An Open Letter to Robert Bloch (Psycho) (1994)
- Afterword (Taps and Sighs) (2000)
- Introduction (A Touch of the Creature: Unpublished Stories) (2000)
- Introduction (Helltracks) (2000)
- Introduction (The Shrinking Man) (2001)
- Afterword/Story Notes (2002)
- A Tribute to Jerry Sohl (2003)
- Introduction to Creature (2004)
- Introduction (Darker Places) (2004)
- Foreward, Backward, Upside Downward (Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World's Greatest Horror Writers) (2005)
- Introduction (Button, Button) (2008)
- A Richard Matheson Update (1986)