I Am Legend

Richard Matheson

Macmillan, 1995 - Fiction - 317 pages

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.

By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.

How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?

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User Review  - ragwaine - LibraryThing

I got this on audio to read "I Am Legend" but I enjoyed the short stories too. All of it felt kind of dated, reminded me of writing from Bradbury or Frederic Brown. In "I Am Legend" the sex-deprived ...

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User Review  - Preston.Kringle - LibraryThing

I Am Legend and Other Stories is a book that emotes a various of thoughts. Starting with the first story that of I Am Legend, which is the main reason in which I began to read this book due to the ...

About the author

Richard Matheson (1926-2013) was The New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Now You See It..., and What Dreams May Come, among others. He was named a Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention, and received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He has also won the Edgar, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. In 2010, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. In addition to his novels Matheson wrote several screenplays for movies and TV, including several Twilight Zone episodes.

Bibliographic information

• Title: I Am Legend; A Tom Doherty Associates book
• Author: Richard Matheson
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Macmillan, 1995
• ISBN: 031286504X, 9780312865047
• Length: 317 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Horror; Fiction / Occult & Supernatural; Fiction / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic