![]() ![]() ![]() How long can one man survive in a world of vampires? This recording also includes a sampling of other horror stories by Richard Matheson, some comic, all scary: "Buried Talents," "The Near Departed," "Prey," "Witch War," "Dance of the Dead," "Dress of White Silk," "Mad House," "The Funeral," "From Shadowed Places," and "Person to Person. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. ![]() ![]() Every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, hungry for Neville's blood. (1954 /1999) Richard Matheson, Millennium, 6.99, pbk, 160pp, ISBN 1-85798-809-4. Abstract This article examines questions of colonization and alterity alongside those of adapta- tion in Richard Mathesons novel and three film adaptations. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. I Am Legend author Richard Matheson was himself a real legend The man behind the best ever vampire novel was a major inspiration to innumerable stars of SF and horror Alison Flood Tue. In Matheson's vampire classic I Am Legend, a plague has decimated the world, and transformed the unfortunate survivors into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. The reason I was so inspired by this novel is Matheson made a complete community and fictional characters into real people. ![]()
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