Richard Matheson, Author Berkley Publishing Group $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-425-14099-4
The closing American frontier comes to grips with the encroaching forces of civilization in this compelling and historically accurate anthology by the author of Journal of the Gun Years. Central to most stories is the notion that civilization has...
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Richard Matheson, Author Gauntlet Press $50 (332p) ISBN 978-1-887368-58-2
Veteran Richard Matheson (I Am Legend, etc.) continues his banner year with A Stir of Echoes, a reprint in a limited signed edition of his classic genre-bending 1958 novel, along with the screenplay version that he wrote soon afterward and was...
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Richard Matheson, Author Gauntlet Press $150 (395p) ISBN 978-1-887368-64-3
Richard Matheson's Kolchak Scripts, edited by Mark Dawidziak, collects the veteran horror writer's scripts for the 1970s cult TV show, Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Dawidziak provides an introduction, stills from the show, the script of a never-pro
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Richard Matheson, Author Scream/Press $20 (168p) ISBN 978-0-910489-15-7
Matheson's first book (he is the son of the well-known fantasy writer Richard Matheson) contains 27 fantasy and horror stories, nine of which are original to the collection. The brevity of the tales is their chief virtue; the punchy narrative form...
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Richard Matheson, Author Berkley Publishing Group $4.99 (247p) ISBN 978-0-425-13901-1
Ex-Texas Ranger John Benton was once known as the fastest gun in the West, and his legend still looms large in Kellville, Texas. Louisa Harper, in an attempt to hasten a slowly blooming romance with her nebbishy fiance Robby Coles, lies to her...
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Richard Matheson, Author M. Evans and Company $16.95 (204p) ISBN 978-0-87131-689-9
This nicely executed western takes the form of annotated diaries by legendary gunfighter Clay Halser, first met as a minor hero in the Civil War. The taste of excitement sours upon Halser's return to his bucolic home town, and he is forced to leave...
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Richard Matheson, Author M. Evans and Company $16.95 (189p) ISBN 978-0-87131-726-1
In the prologue to this page-turning new novel by the author of Journal of the Gun Years , aging Texas Ranger John Benton hangs up his guns after killing a bank robber who's barely more than a child. Eight years later, in 1879, Benton has settled...
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Richard Matheson, Author Bantam Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09543-2
Screenwriter/producer Matheson's first novel dissects the high-octane Hollywood of network TV with blistering cynicism but ultimately fails to sustain psychological suspense. Writer/producer Alan White finally has a sure-fire hit with his series The
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Richard Matheson, Author M. Evans and Company $18.95 (171p) ISBN 978-0-87131-747-6
Though best known as a grandmaster of horror, Matheson is also a noted writer of westerns ( The Gunfight ) . This volume reprints four of his early sagebrush yarns--two short stories and two novellas--and presents two original stories. Matheson's...
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Richard Matheson, Author . Cemetery Dance $40 (185p) ISBN 978-1-58767-014-5
Matt Harper, a first-time counselor at a boy's summer camp, is witness to casual brutality that leads to murder in this short novel told with almost fable-like simplicity. Certainly the bullying, gluttonous headman Ed Nolan (who "has reduced
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Richard Matheson, Author Tor Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85712-7
In 1982, before Matheson achieved the cult-and-grandmaster status he enjoys today, Playboy Press published a version of this erotic ghost story that was so severely edited that the author took his name off the book, which was presented as by ``Logan
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Richard Matheson, Author Tor Books $19.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-312-85713-4
The prolific master of suspense and screenwriting (I Am Legend; The Incredible Shrinking Man) here comes up with a knockout tale the like of whose twists and final turns have not been seen since Henri Clouzot's devilish film thriller Diabolique....
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Richard Matheson, Author Cemetery Dance Publications $40 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58767-001-5
This is an apparently early, minor work from a major writer: Matheson, of course, is the author of such genre classics as Hell House and I Am Legend. When struggling young artist Ray Thompson quits his job at Douglas Aircraft to peddle his homemade...
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Richard Matheson, Author Cemetery Dance Publications $40 (140p) ISBN 978-1-58767-007-7
Prolific screenwriter and genre novelist Matheson (What Dreams May Come; I Am Legend; Passion Play [Forecasts, June 26], etc.) has long maintained an interest in parapsychology--divination, telepathy, ESP and the like. His brief and elegantly...
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Richard Matheson, Author Gauntlet Press $66 (400p) ISBN 978-1-887368-72-8
Richard Matheson's Duel & The Distributor, edited by Matthew R. Bradley, includes both the two short stories, first published in Playboy, and the screenplays derived from them, as well as an interview with Dennis Weaver, the star of Duel, the movie...
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Richard Matheson, Tor, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2768-0
Genre veteran Matheson (I Am Legend) frames this bittersweet blend of fantasy and romantic suspense as the "true" reminiscences of 82-year-old Alex White, the author of such novels as Midnight Blood Thirst and Midnight Flesh Hunger under the name...
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Richard Matheson. Tor, $14.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2942-4
Matheson’s latest collection features two recently published pieces, but is otherwise a repackaging of largely unremarkable speculative fiction stories originally published in the 1950s. Matheson’s inextinguishable imagination is apparent in “Dr....
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Richard Matheson, Author . Forge $13.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-87831-3
Originally published in 1960, this early novel by bestseller-list veteran Matheson (What Dreams May Come; I Am Legend) was probably inappropriately classified upon its original publication as just another post-WWII potboiler. Read again 40 years...
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Richard Matheson, Gauntlet (www.gauntletpress.com), $75 (384p) ISBN 978-1-934267-17-2
Gauntlet's second collection of Matheson rarities features almost a dozen short stories in a variety of genres, two unfinished novels, and an unpublished screenplay for his landmark novel What Dreams May Come. "The Hunt" follows a sheriff as he...
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Richard Matheson, Author . Tor $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0271-7
A tinted review in adult Forecasts indicates a book that's of exceptional importance to our readers, but hasn't received a starred or boxed review.HUNTED PAST REASONRichard Matheson. Tor, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-765-30271-3Testosterone, envy...
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Richard Matheson, Author . Tor $15.95 (205p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1257-0
Both longtime fans and readers who have never encountered horror and suspense author Matheson (I Am Legend
), winner of Stoker and World Fantasy lifetime achievement awards among many others, should enjoy this collection of a dozen stories...
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Richard Matheson, Author . Gauntlet $55 (0p) ISBN 978-1-887368-83-4
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....
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Richard Matheson, Author . Gauntlet $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-887368-75-9
Bad things happen to bad people in Matheson's systematic but suspenseful composition about a rapidly escalating war between the sexes. It's the night of the Emmys, and David, a radio show psychologist, and his wife, Liz, Emmy-nominated...
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Richard Matheson, Author . Gauntlet $55 (0p) ISBN 978-1-887368-61-2
This cunningly wrought horror collection from master storyteller Matheson contains six early tales and an unproduced screenplay adaptation of John Saul's 1989 novel, Creature
. In "Revolution," we learn that there's more in the blank
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Richard Matheson, Author . Gauntlet $40 (144p) ISBN 978-1-887368-60-5
Since it first appeared in fragmentary form in a short-fiction collection in 1970, this tale has earned legendary status among Matheson's fans as his great uncompleted novel about the dark side of modern spiritualism. Now a much larger fragment...
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Richard Matheson, Author . Tor $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0695-1
Science fiction's forward-looking sense of wonder curdles into an apprehensive glance over the shoulder in the 18 tales that comprise this latest repackaging of Matheson's (Nightmare at 20,000 Feet) seminal fantastic fiction. Although decked
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Richard Matheson, Author . Subterranean $40 (240p) ISBN 978-1-931081-58-0
Trunk tales and previously uncollected treasures make a rough but rewarding mix in this baker's dozen of dreads from dark-fantasy virtuoso Matheson (I Am Legend). More often than not the contents—which date back decades, and include four...
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Richard Matheson, Author, Stephen King, Introduction by . Tor $24.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0411-7
Although Matheson (I Am Legend; Hell House; etc.) needs no introduction to most horror fans, Stephen King provides one for this collection of classic weird tales in which he appreciatively remembers his mentor's "gut-bucket short stories...
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Richard Matheson, Author, Yuri Rasovsky, Read by , read by Yuri Rasovsky. Blackstone Audio $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-1260-4
Matheson's legendary 1956 sci-fi tale of Scott Carey, a family man who is slowly shrinking into obscurity and a terrifying new world inside his own house, is beautifully realized by Yuri Rasovsky's memorable reading. Enthusiastic and...
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Richard Matheson, Author, Robertson Dean, Read by , read by Robertson Dean. Blackstone Audio $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-0331-2
Robert Neville has witnessed the end of the world. The world's population has been obliterated by a vampire virus, though Neville has somehow survived. As he toils to make sense of it all and protect himself against the hounding vampires who seek...
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Richard Matheson, read by Mark Bramhall. Blackstone Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 5.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-4417-3995-7%E2%80%A8
When two locals are found dead and mutilated, residents of the frontier com- munity Picture City are convinced the nearby Apaches are responsible. However, Billjohn Finley, provincial agent for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, believes the Native...
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Richard Matheson, Author, William Stout, Illustrator , illus. by William Stout. Gauntlet $21.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-887368-49-0
Really outstanding fairy tales please all ages, especially ones that pop out of magic bottles (or small press publishers) when you least expect them. Whimsical and diabolically clever, this sure-to-be classic follows a humble Persian boy, Abu, as he
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Richard Matheson, Author, Stanley Wiater, Editor Gauntlet Press $16.95 (399p) ISBN 978-1-887368-62-9
Richard Matheson: Collected Stories, Volume One, edited by Stanley Wiater, gathers 29 tales by the master fantasist, arranged roughly in chronological order of publication by the author himself, starting with ""Born of Man and Woman"" (1950). ...
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Richard Matheson, Author, Stanley Wiater, Editor Gauntlet Press $16.95 (392p) ISBN 978-1-887368-42-1
The 14 complete scripts in Richard Matheson's The Twilight Zone Scripts: Volume One, edited by Stanley Wiater, will be great fun for fans and scriptwriters. In the episode called ""Invaders,"" tiny spacemen land at a desolate farmhouse and the...
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Richard Matheson, Author, Stanley Wiater, Editor Gauntlet Press $16.95 (392p) ISBN 978-1-887368-52-0
Richard Matheson's The Twilight Zones Scripts: Volume 2, edited by horror expert Stanley Wiater, collects six of Matheson's teleplays from Rod Serling's classic TV series. This has been a banner year for the veteran author, whose recent work...
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Richard Matheson, Author, Richard Matheson, Joint Author Gauntlet Press $30 (32p) ISBN 978-1-887368-63-6
Ever wonder how two authors collaborate on a story? Now you can see the process in action in Pride, the tale of a divorced mother of three who remarries a man who wants his own children, by Richard Matheson and Richard Christian Matheson. The...
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Richard Matheson. Gauntlet (www.gauntletpress.com), $24.95 (376p) ISBN 978-1-934267-40-0
Matheson (1926–2013) died with a number of works still unpublished, including the two collected in this volume. "Leave Yesterday Alone," written in 1950 (just before Matheson's first professional science fiction sale), is a pulp novel about college...
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Edited by Victor LaValle. Penguin Classics, $17 trade paper (407p) ISBN 978-0-14-313017-8
Richard Matheson (I Am Legend) is one of the giants of genre writing, and his talents are on full display in this collection, edited and introduced by LaValle (The Changeling). Classic stories such as “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” in which an airline...
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