Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Remember that monster on the wing of the airplane?
William Shatner saw it on The Twilight Zone, John Lithgow saw it in the movie – even Bart Simpson saw it. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is just one of many classic horror stories by Richard Matheson that have insinuated themselves into our collective imagination.
Here are twenty of Matheson's most memorable tales of fear and paranoia, with an introduction by Stephen King.
Contents:
- Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1962)
- Dress of White Silk (1951)
- Blood Son (aka Drink My Red Blood...) (1951)
- Through Channels (1951)
- Witch War (1951)
- Mad House (1953)
- Disappearing Act (1953)
- Legion of Plotters (1953)
- Long Distance Call (aka Sorry, Right Number) (1953)
- Slaughter House (1953)
- Wet Straw (1953)
- Dance of the Dead (1954)
- The Children of Noah (1957)
- The Holiday Man (1957)
- Old Haunts (1957)
- The Distributor (1958)
- Crickets (1960)
- First Anniversary (1960)
- The Likeness of Julie (1962)
- Prey (1969)
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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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