Richard Matheson

On the isolated road of the American highway... terrorrides on 18 wheels! Tales of diesel-fueled fear from three masters of horrorfiction.With Throttle, acclaimednovelist/Eisner-winning graphic novelist Joe Hill collaborated with hisfather, Stephen King, for the first time on a tale that paid tribute toRichard Matheson's classic short story, Duel. Now, IDW is proud topresent comic book versions of both stories in Road Rage, adapted byChris Ryall with art by Nelson Daniel and RafaGarres.

Legend (persiska: Man afsaneh-am) Ray Bradbury har kallat honom en av 1900-talets viktigaste författare: Richard Matheson, författaren bakom Legend - en av skräckgenrens absolut största klassiker. Robert Neville är den siste mannen på jorden - men han är inte ensam. En fasansfull farsot har dragit fram och gjort att resten av mänskligheten - män, kvinnor och barn - har muterat och förvandlats till fruktansvärda, nattlevande varelser som törstar efter Roberts blod. Hopplösheten i Roberts liv är total, ändå förmår han inte göra slut på det. Han lever sitt liv på det enda sätt han kan: på dagarna åker han runt i det ödelagda Los Angeles och letar efter sina vilande fiender för att ta slut på dem, en efter en, med en påle i hjärtat. På natten barrikaderar han sig i sitt hus och ber om att få se ännu en gryning. Så en dag händer något som stör hans monotoni. Men är det en välsignelse eller en förbannelse? Legend har inspirerat kända författare som Stephen King, filmats inte mindre än 3 gånger (senast 2007 med Will Smith i huvudrollen), gjorts som radiopjäs och serietidning och översatts till otaliga språk.

This collection reprints the adaptation of the TV movie "The Night Strangler" written by the legendary RICHARD MATHESON, and the three issues of "Kolchak: The Night Stalker Files" comic by Chris Mills. Carl Kolchak doesn't have time for horror movies. His life is scary enough - and now he's between jobs and desperate for a paycheck. But when a young actress goes missing on the set of a low-budget monster flick, he soon discovers that making it big in Hollywood can be murder

One of the seminal texts of 1950's SF - the novel that inspired the film. Introduction by Lisa Tuttle.

Acclaimed novelist/Eisner-winning graphic novelist Joe Hill collaboratedwith his father, Stephen King, in Throttle, for the first time on a talethat paid tribute to Richard Matheson's classic tale, Duel. Now, IDW isproud to present comic-book tellings of both stories in Road Rage,adapted by Chris Ryall with art by Nelson Daniel and Rafa Garres.

Richard Matheson's classic short story is now the basis for Real Steel, a gritty, white-knuckle film starring Hugh Jackman. But "Steel," which was previously filmed as a powerful episode of the original Twilight Zone television series, is just one of over a dozen unforgettable tales in this outstanding collection, which includes two new stories that have never appeared in any previous Matheson collection. Also featured is a bizarre satirical fantasy, "The Splendid Source," that was turned into an episode of The Family Guy. Imagine a future in which the sport of boxing has gone high-tech. Human boxers have been replaced by massive humanoid robots. And former champions of flesh-and-blood are obsolete . . . . Richard Matheson was recently inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Steel: And Other Stories demonstrates once again the full range of his legendary imagination.

Together in one volume, the epic stories of two legendary gunfighters Journal of the Gun YearsWinner of the Spur Award for Best Western Novel Back East, they told tall tales of Marshal Clay Hauser, the steely-eyed Civil War veteran who became known as the "Hero of the Plains" for his daring exploits in the raucous cow towns of the frontier. But fame proves to be the one enemy he can never outdraw-and a curse that haunts him to his violent end . . . . The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok James Butler Hickok was a celebrity before there was a Hollywood. As a gunfighter and U.S. marshal, he carved out a legend greater than any fictional hero. Now read the unforgettable story of the man behind the myth. "Matheson excels at the depiction of one man alone, locked in a desperate struggle against a force or forces greater than himself."--Stephen King

The SF classic that inspired the blockbuster vampire movie starring Will Smith.

Originally published as a mass-market Western in 1994, Shadow on the Sun has been out of print for years and was largely overlooked by horror fans and general readers. Now at last this forgotten tale of supernatural terror returns to chill the blood of Matheson's many fans. Southwest Arizona, a century ago. An uneasy true exists between the remote frontier community of Picture City and the neighboring Apaches. That delicate peace is shredded when the bodies of two white men are found hideously mutilated. The angry townspeople are certain the "savages" have broken the treaty, but Billjohn Finley, the local Indian agent, fears that darker, more unholy forces may be at work. There's a tall, dark stranger in town, who rode in wearing the dead men's clothes. A stranger who may not be entirely human . . . .

What if you were told that you could make a fortune just by pushing a button on a box? But pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world . . . someone you don't know. Would you still push the button? "Button, Button," Richard Matheson's chilling tale of greed and temptation, is now the basis of The Box, the new film from the director of Donnie Darko. In addition, this outstanding collection also contains many other unforgettable stories by Matheson, the award-winning author of I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come. "The inventive plots and spare but convincing portraits of ordinary men and women caught up in forces beyond their control demonstrate why Stephen King has called Matheson his most significant influence."--Publishers Weekly

Back East, they told tall tales about Marshall Clay Halser, the fearless Civil War veteran who became known as the "Hero of the Plains" for his daring exploits in the Wild West. But the truth, as revealed in his private journals, is even more compelling. A callow youth in search of excitement, Halser travels to the raucous cow towns of the frontier, where his steady nerve and ready trigger finger soon mark him as a gunfighter to be reckoned with. As both an outlaw and a lawman, he carves out a legendary career. But fame proves to be the one enemy he can never outdraw-and a curse that haunts him to the bitter end . . . .

Matheson's classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his soul mate in the form of a celebrated actress of the previous century. "Somewhere in Time" won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1979 movie version, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, remains a cult classic whose fans continue to hold yearly conventions to this day.

This collection of stories features "Button, Button," the basis for the major motion picture, "The Box," starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden. Button, Button: Uncanny Stories contains a number of tales that were also adapted for television, as well as a new introduction by Richard Matheson himself. What if every time you pushed a button you received $50,000...but someone you didn't know died? Would you still push the button? How many times? "Button, Button", which inspired a memorable Twilight Zone episode, is just one of a dozen unforgettable tales in this collection by Richard Matheson, the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come.

"Ja - legenda" Richarda Matesona - kniga poistine legendarnaja kak legendarno imja ee sozdatelja. Roman porodil tseloe napravlenie v literature, iz nego vyrosli takie moschnye figury sovremennogo literaturnogo mira kak Rej Bredberi, Stiven King... - dvukh etikh imen dostatochno dlja otsenki sily vlijanija. Luchshie rezhissery planety - Stiven Spilberg, Rodzher Korman i drugie - postavili filmy po proizvedenijam Matesona. Vtoroj roman, voshedshij v etu knigu, "Neverojatnyj umenshajuschijsja chelovek", ne menee znamenit, chem pervyj. Chelovek - peschinka pered temnoj moschju prirody, no i eta malaja molekula zhizni vsemi silami dolzhna zaschischat sebja, chtoby dokazat i sebe i miru svoe pravo na zemnoe suschestvovanie.

Predstavte sebe, chto vy umerli! No, kak vyjasnjaetsja, zhizn prodolzhaetsja i za porogom smerti. Bolee togo, vperedi zhdet beskonechnoe stranstvie po neizvedannym miram i vselennym. Imenno v takoe puteshestvie suzhdeno otpravitsja Krisu Nilsenu, chtoby spastis ot otchajanija i vnov obresti nadezhdu i ljubov.Srazu zhe posle publikatsii roman R.Matesona stal bestsellerom i vyzval burnye diskussii ne tolko v literaturnykh krugakh, no i sredi uchenykh. Nazvannyj edva li ne osnovopolagajuschim proizvedeniem o zhizni posle smerti, on leg v osnovu odnogo iz samykh krasivykh filmov Gollivuda, glavnuju rol v kotorom ispolnil Robin Uiljams. Fantasticheskaja melodrama, postavlennaja Vinsentom Uordom, s triumfom demonstrirovalas vo mnogikh stranakh mira i byla udostoena premii "Oskar".

Predstavte sebe, chto vy umerli! No, kak vyjasnjaetsja, zhizn prodolzhaetsja i za porogom smerti. Bolee togo, vperedi zhdet beskonechnoe stranstvie no neizvedannym miram i vselennym. Imenno v takoe puteshestvie suzhdeno otpravitsja Krisu Nilsenu, chtoby spastis ot otchajanija i vnov obresti nadezhdu i ljubov. Srazu zhe posle publikatsii roman R. Matesona stal bestsellerom i vyzval burnye diskussii ne tolko v literaturnykh krugakh, no i sredi uchenykh. Nazvannyj edva li ne osnovopolagajuschim proizvedeniem o zhizni posle smerti, on leg v osnovu odnogo iz samykh krasivykh filmov Gollivuda, glavnuju rol v kotorom ispolnil Robin Uiljame. Fantasticheskaja melodrama, postavlennaja Vinsentom Uordom, s triumfom demonstrirovalas vo mnogikh stranakh mira i byla udostoena premii "Oskar".

"Noir" contains three long-lost thrillers by Richard Matheson, the grand master of suspense. Originally published in the 1950s, at the very beginning of Matheson's distinguished career, these page-turning classics have been largely out-of-print for decades. Now readers everywhere can savor three unforgettable tales of crime, corruption, and cold-blooded murder. . . ."Someone Is Bleeding--"Dave Newton has fallen hard for Peggy, a leggy blonde with a lurid past and a heartbreaking smile. But as bloody corpses begin to litter his path, Dave is forced to confront the terrifying possibility that the woman he loves is a deranged killer "Fury on Sunday--"In the wee hours of one fateful Sunday morning, a homicidal maniac embarks on a rampage of terror and violence that threatens everyone who crosses his path, culminating in a deadly confrontation in a Manhattan apartment building."Ride the Nightmare--"Chris and Helen had the perfect suburban life--until Helen discovers her husband's guilty secret. Overnight, their peaceful existence descends into a vortex of fear and brutality that may cost them the life of their only child

This eerie ghost story, from Richard Matheson, the award-winning author of Hell House and I Am Legend, inspired the acclaimed 1999 film starring Kevin Bacon. Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now he's hearing the private thoughts of the people around him-and learning shocking secrets he never wanted to know. But as Tom's existence becomes a waking nightmare, even greater jolts are in store as he becomes the unwilling recipient of a compelling message from beyond the grave