RICHARD MATHESON has died .
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RICHARD MATHESON has died .
I brought the news from F&SF mag's board .
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Really sorry to hear this. One of my favorite Science Fiction and movie screenplay writers. When I first read I Am Legend it truly blew my mind. At least he made it to 87.
I'm not so familiar with his work, but I am Legend is just a wonderful, gripping genre novel. Such a fine study of loneliness and isolation.
It's the only vampire novel where the writer made the old trope of 'a main character not realising that it was nearly sundown until it was too late' convincing.
The thing that rocked me was that the guy killing vampires (and possibly non-vampires) with stakes was perceived as the monster!
Sorry to hear of his passing. If you have any interest at all in Mathesons work, I highly recommend searching out his short story collections - the man was a master at the form.
I've enjoyed his stuff. Didn't he write the story that was the basis for Don't Be Afraid of the Dark with Kim Darby?
Not that I can find, Mark.
He wrote the most romantic screenplay of all, Somewhere In Time. I am glad I had a chance to meet him at an SIT event at Universal City. Sorry to hear of his passing.
So sorry to hear of his passing. I remember listening to audiobooks of both I Am Legend and The Incredible Shrinking Man in the mid-90s, back when the things came on cassette tapes. Both of them were great, gripping yarns.
Peter Bosch said:
He also wrote the novel, Bid Time Return, from which he adapted the movie. I have a copy of it from the time the movie was released, and the book was retitled.