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Richard Matheson

(Richard Burton Matheson)

(1926 - 2013)
Father of Richard Christian Matheson

aka Logan Swanson

Richard Matheson was The New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It . . . , and What Dreams May Come. A Grand Master of Horror and past winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, he also won the Edgar, the Hugo, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards.

Awards: Stoker (1991), WFA (1990) see all

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, Western

Novels

   Fury on Sunday (1953)
   Someone Is Bleeding (1953)
   I Am Legend (1954)
     aka The Omega Man
   Woman (1954)
     aka Born of Man and Woman
   The Shrinking Man (1956)
     aka Incredible Shrinking Man
   A Stir of Echoes (1958)
   Ride the Nightmare (1959)
   The Beardless Warriors (1960)
   Comedy of Terrors (1964) (with Elsie Lee)
   Hell House (1971)
   The Night Stalker (1973) (with Jeff Rice)
   Somewhere in Time (1975)
     aka Bid Time Return
   What Dreams May Come (1979)
   Earthbound (1982) (as by Logan Swanson)
   Hunger and Thirst (1990)
   Journal of the Gun Years (1991)
   The Gun Fight (1993)
   7 Steps to Midnight (1993)
   The Path (1993)
   Shadow on the Sun (1994)
   Now You See It.... (1995)
   The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok (1996)
   Passion Play (2000)
   Camp Pleasant (2001)
   Abu and the 7 Marvels (2002)
   Hunted Past Reason (2002)
   Come Fygures, Come Shadowes (2003)
   The Link (2006)
   Other Kingdoms (2011)
   Generations (2012)
   Leave Yesterday Alone (2014)

Collections

   The Shores of Space (1957)
   Shock! (1961)
   Shock 2 (1964)
   Shock 3 (1966)
   Shock 4 (1970)
   Shockwaves (1970)
   Richard Matheson's Twilight Zone Scripts (1986)
   Ghost Trilogy (1987)
   Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks (1987) (with Richard Christian Matheson)
     aka Scars
   By the Gun (1994)
   Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (2001)
   Pride (2002) (with Richard Christian Matheson)
   Offbeat (2002)
   Duel (2003)
   Collected Stories, Vol. 1 (2003)
   Richard Matheson's Kolchak Scripts (2003)
   Darker Places (2004)
   Collected Stories, Vol. 2 (2005)
   Collected Stories Vol. 3 (2005)
   Unrealized Dreams (2005)
   Bloodlines (2006)
   Visions of Death (2007)
   Button, Button (2008)
   Matheson Uncollected, Vol. 1 (2008)
   Road Rage (2009) (with Joe Hill and Stephen King)
   Visions Deferred (2009)
   The Box (2009)
   Matheson Uncollected, Vol. 2 (2010)
   Steel (2011)
   Richard Matheson Uncollected (2012)
   The Best of Richard Matheson (2017)

Novellas and Short Stories

   The Man Who Made the World (1953)
   Richard Matheson's Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (2011)
   Slaughter House (2014)

Anthologies edited

Robert Bloch Tribute Anthology (1995)

Series contributed to

Kolchak: The Night Stalker
2. The Night Strangler (1973) (with Jeff Rice)

Non fiction show

Omnibus editions show

Books containing stories by Richard Matheson

Automobilia (2024)
SpeKulative Stories Anthology
edited by
Jeffrey L Buford Jr and Jason J Marchi

They're Here! (2023)
edited by
Hank Davis and Sean C W Korsgaard

Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

More books

Awards

	1991 Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement
	1990 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection : Collected Stories, Vol. 1
	1989 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection : Collected Stories, Vol. 1
	1984 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement
	1976 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel : Somewhere in Time

Award nominations

	2003 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
	2001 Retro Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Born of Man and Woman
	1990 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Collected Stories, Vol. 1
	1978 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement (nominee)