Collected Stories, Volume 1

Richard Matheson

Edge Books, 2003 - Fiction - 399 pages

THE FIRST OF 3 VOLUMES OF ALL OF RICHARD MATHESON'S PUBLISHED SHORT STORIES

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User Review  - tjsjohanna - LibraryThing

Another good volume of stories - some horror, some hard sci-fi, some just speculative. As with the previous volume, I enjoyed the author's comments after each story.

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User Review  - tjsjohanna - LibraryThing

Interesting collection - standard fare for sci-fi. I liked the short blurbs after each story that gave a little background.

Contents

• Editors Preface: 1
• Born of Man and Woman: 15
• From Ray Bradbury: 43

About the author

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 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.

Stanley Wiater has been interviewing and writing about Stephen King for more than two decades. The award-winning author or editor of ten books, he is currently the writer and host of the television series "Dark Dreamers"", " which showcases those who explore the dark side of the arts.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Collected Stories, Volume 1; Collected Stories, Richard Matheson
• Author: Richard Matheson
• Editor: Stanley Waiter
• Publisher: Edge Books, 2003
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: May 30, 2008
• ISBN: 1887368620, 9781887368629
• Length: 399 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Erotica; Fiction / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies; Fiction / Horror