Collected Stories
World Fantasy Award winner 1990.
A collection of short stories. This collection was later split into three volumes.
Contents:
- Introduction by the author
- Appreciations by Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, William F. Nolan, Jack Finney, George Clayton Johnson, Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Dennis Etchison, and Richard Christian Matheson
- Born of Man and Woman
- Third from the Sun
- When the Waker Sleeps
- Blood Son
- Clothes Make the Man
- Dress of White Silk
- Return
- The Thing
- Through Channels
- Witch War
- Advance Notice
- Brother to the Machine
- F--
- Lover When You're Near Me
- Mad House
- Shipshape Home
- SRL Ad
- To Fit the Crime
- Death Ship
- Disappearing Act
- The Disinheritors
- Dying Room Only
- Full Circle
- The Last Day
- Lazarus II
- Legion of Plotters
- Little Girl Lost
- Long Distance Call
- Slaughter House
- Trespass
- The Wedding
- Wet Straw
- Being
- The Conqueror
- The Curious Child
- Dear Diary
- Descent
- The Doll that Does Everything
- The Man Who Made the World
- The Test
- The Traveller
- When Day is Dun
- Dance of the Dead
- The Funeral
- Miss Stardust
- One for the Books
- Pattern for Survival
- A Florish of Strumpets
- The Splendid Source
- Steel
- A Visit to Santa Claus
- The Children of Noah
- The Holiday Man
- Lemmings
- Old Haunts
- The Distributor
- The Edge
- Big Surprise
- The Creeping Terror
- Deadline
- Mantage
- No Such Thing as a Vampire
- Crickets
- Day of Reckoning
- First Anniversary
- From Shadowed Places
- Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
- Finger Prints
- The Likeness of Julie
- Mute
- Deus Ex Machina
- Girl of My Dreams
- The Jazz Machine
- Shock Wave
- 'Tis the Season to be Jelly
- Interest
- A Drink of Water
- Therese
- Prey
- Button Button
- By Appointment Only
- Finishing Touches
- 'Til Death Do Us Part
- The Near Departed
- Buried Talents
- Duel
- Bibliography
Richard Matheson
Richard Burton Matheson (1926–2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He may be known best as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 horror novel that has been adapted for the screen four times, although five more of his novels have been adapted as major motion pictures: The Shrinking Man, Hell House, What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere in Time), A Stir of Echoes and The Box. Matheson also wrote numerous television episodes of The Twilight Zone for Rod Serling, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Steel". He later adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" as a screenplay which was promptly directed by a young Steven Spielberg, for the television movie of the same name.
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