Richard Matheson (1926–2013)
Autore di I Am Legend {story collection}
Sull'Autore
Richard Matheson was born on February 20, 1926 in Allendale, New Jersey. He was eight when his stories appeared in a local newspaper, the Brooklyn Eagle. He served during World War II. He received a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1949. In 1950 he first was noticed as an mostra altro upcoming writer-to-watch, starting with the short story Born of Man and Woman. He wrote numerous novels and short stories during his lifetime including I am Legend, The Shrinking Man, What Dreams May Come, and Hell House. He won the World Fantasy Convention's Life Achievement Award, the Bram Stoker Award for Life Achievement, the Hugo Award, the Golden Spur Award, and the Writer's Guild Award. He also was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010. When Hollywood approached him for the rights to his novel The Shrinking Man, he negotiated the chance to write the screenplay. This began a long career in screenwriting and adapting. He wrote the screenplay for Steven Spielberg's Duel and 16 episodes of the television series The Twilight Zone. He won an Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1973 for The Night Stalker. He died on June 23, 2013 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Richard Matheson is not the same person as his son, Richard Christian Matheson.
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Serie
Opere di Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson Thrillers: I Am Legend, Someone is Bleeding, Ride the Nightmare, Fury on Sunday (2017) 8 copie
Prey 7 copie
Visions of Death: Richard Matheson's Edgar Allan Poe Scripts (House of Usher & Pit and the Pendulum) (1894) 6 copie
The Funeral 6 copie
Dance of the Dead 6 copie
Richard Matheson Suspense Novels : The Shrinking Man, Camp Pleasant, Hunger and Thirst, 7 Steps to Midnight (2020) 6 copie
Dress of White Silk 5 copie
Witch War 5 copie
El increíble hombre meguante 5 copie
Duel [short story] 5 copie
The Distributor [short story] 4 copie
He Wanted to Live 3 copie
The Box (2009) 3 copie
Gigamesh 42 3 copie
Buried Talents 3 copie
Hinter dem Horizont 3 copie
The Near Departed 3 copie
Mad House 3 copie
Drink My Blood [short story] 3 copie
1984 1/2 3 copie
Shoo Fly [short story] 3 copie
A Caixa 2 copie
Hell House 2 copie
Short Story Collection Volume I 2 copie
Where There's a Will 2 copie
The Box Publisher: Tor Books 2 copie
The Likeness of Julie 2 copie
Two O'clock Session 2 copie
A Splendid Source [short story] 2 copie
Em algum lugar do passado 2 copie
Purge Among Peanuts 2 copie
Man with a Club 2 copie
Eerste verjaardag 2 copie
The Window Of Time 2 copie
Shock Wave [short story] 2 copie
Mundo dos Vampiros 1 copia
Born of Man and Woman (abridged) 1 copia
Der Omega Mann 1 copia
Lemmings 1 copia
(all) 1 copia
A Casa Infernal 1 copia
SHOCK! (1) (i) One; SHOCK (2) (ii) Two; SHOCK (3) (iii) Three; SHOCK WAVES: The Children of Noah; Lemmings; The… (1961) 1 copia
The Foodlegger (short story) 1 copia
Deadline [short fiction] 1 copia
Duell 1 copia
Varulven — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Finger prints [short story] 1 copia
The Jazz Machine [short story] 1 copia
Dying Room Only [short story] 1 copia
Girl of My Dreams [short story] 1 copia
Button, Button [short story] 1 copia
Eliminazione lenta 1 copia
The Test [short story] 1 copia
Sorry, Right Number 1 copia
Nat stro 1 copia
Les enfants de Noé 1 copia
Counterfeit Bill 1 copia
Third From The Sun [short story] 1 copia
Matheson Richard 1 copia
Undeva, candva 1 copia
Shipshape Home 1 copia
Lover When You’re Near Me 1 copia
When the Waker Sleeps 1 copia
Trespass [novelette] 1 copia
Old Haunts 1 copia
The Holiday Man 1 copia
The Children of Noah 1 copia
Wet Straw 1 copia
Long Distance Call 1 copia
Legion Of Plotters 1 copia
When Day Is Dun [short story] 1 copia
Blood Son 1 copia
Person To Person 1 copia
From Shadowed Places 1 copia
Little Girl Lost [short story] 1 copia
The Last Day [short story] 1 copia
The Curious Child [short story] 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time (1970) — Collaboratore — 1,875 copie
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old & New (1985) — Collaboratore — 522 copie
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Collaboratore — 266 copie
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Collaboratore — 194 copie
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Collaboratore — 184 copie
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read with the Door Locked (1975) — Collaboratore — 165 copie
A Clutch of Vampires: These Being Among the Best from History and Literature (1929) — Collaboratore — 100 copie
Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1990) — Collaboratore — 92 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30-Year Retrospective (1980) — Collaboratore — 86 copie
La dimension fantastique, Tome 1 : Treize nouvelles de Hoffmann à Claude Seignolle (1998) — Collaboratore — 70 copie
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1985) — Collaboratore — 69 copie
The Best Horror Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1988) — Collaboratore — 46 copie
Science Fiction Hall Of Fame Volume Two. The Greatest Science Fiction Stories Of All Time Chosen By The Members Of The… (1970) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 35 copie
The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. I (1989) — Collaboratore — 27 copie
Van Jules Verne tot Isaac Asimov de vijftig beste science fiction verhalen (1981) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
Midnite Movies Double Feature: The Fall of the House of Usher / The Pit and the Pendulum (2004) 11 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1962, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1962) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1958, Vol. 15, No. 2 (1958) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1957, Vol. 13, No. 4 (1957) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
Amazing Stories Vol. 27, No. 4 [April-May 1953] — Autore — 4 copie
The Day After Doomsday; Earth Abides; I Am Legend; On The Beach; Alas, Babylon; Lucifer's Hammer (Leather Bound)(5… (2012) 2 copie
Configurations: American Short Stories for the EFL Classroom, Advanced Level (1984) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Ռիչարդ Մեթսոն
- Nome legale
- Matheson, Richard Burton
- Data di nascita
- 1926-02-20
- Data di morte
- 2013-06-23
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Allendale, New Jersey, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Calabasas, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
California, USA - Istruzione
- University of Missouri (BA ∙ journalism ∙ 1949)
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
short-story writer
screenwriter - Relazioni
- Matheson, Richard Christian (son)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Bram Stoker Award (Lifetime Achievement, 1990)
International Horror Guild Living Legend (1999)
World Horror Convention Grand Master Award (1993)
SF Hall Of Fame (2010) - Nota di disambiguazione
- Richard Matheson is not the same person as his son, Richard Christian Matheson.
Utenti
Discussioni
I Am Legend - Smeared Ink Chapter headings . . . is it planned, or a printing error? in Folio Society Devotees (Dicembre 2022)
What's your Opinion of Richard Matheson? in Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (Gennaio 2011)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 285
- Opere correlate
- 157
- Utenti
- 26,397
- Popolarità
- #791
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 858
- ISBN
- 719
- Lingue
- 25
- Preferito da
- 104
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