The Link

Matheson's lifelong interest in the paranormal (Come Fygures, Come Shadowes ) shapes every element of this massive unproduced screen treatment, whose hero, Robert Allright, is a writer scripting a TV mini-series about modern psychic phenomena. As Allright works with paranormal investigator Cathy Graves and explores a mystery uncovered by his archeologist father in the Arizona desert, he discovers his own latent psychic talents and truths that build to cosmic revelations at the finale. Matheson peppers the story with innumerable historical incidents of supposed paranormal activity that make fascinating reading, but show just how impossible this story would have been to film. This lightly fleshed out screenplay is purely for Matheson completists. (Apr.)