Rosetta Books, 2011 A troubled in marriage couple revisit the spot of their honeymoon in the hope of rekindling the flame of their marriage. David is determined to do this however when his wife goes out walking one night and he decides to surprise her with a cosy fire in the living room or their rental property he is surprised when another woman is standing in the doorway. Her...
RosettaBooks, 2014 The first edition appeared in 1953. In the early hours of a Sunday morning, lunatic pianist Vincent Radin escapes from an insane asylum and sets out on a revenge-fueled rampage. His aim is to find the two people who have hurt him most — his erstwhile manager and his lover’s new husband — and end their lives. The second of Richard Matheson’s published novels,...
Severn House Publishers, 2004 The first edition appeared in 1971. A dying millionaire offers a physicist and two psychics a hundred thousand dollars apiece to spend a week in a haunted house to prove or disprove the existence of an afterlife. Sounds simple enough, right? Tensions run high between the investigators. Barrett thinks Florence's beliefs are crap and his scientific...
Gauntlet Pr, 2000 Richard Matheson's FIRST and previously UNPUBLISHED novel, written over 50 years ago when Matheson was 23, the book was considered unpublishible by his then agent due to its length. The book sat in Matheson's cabinet for over 50 years and only now sees the light of day. The story of Erick, who after a botched robbery in which he was shot, lays in his room...
ISBN: 978 0 57508 1 987 Year: 2007 Publisher: Orion An acclaimed SF novel about vampires becomes a stunning new movie starring Will Smith. The last man on earth is not alone… Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth. but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood. By day he is the hunter,...
B&N, 2011 Few of Richard Matheson's readers know that he had hopes for writing popular music. At a very early age, Matheson taught himself how to write sheet music, but his family could not afford art supplies and so he had to give up composition. But music never left his mind and when Matheson found a creative new outlet through his writing (cheaper than music, requiring only...
RosettaBooks, 2011 Mediums Rare is a short compendium of famous psychics throughout history, told in a fictitous format. Masterson starts out with the story of King Croesus of Lydia, which took place around five forty-six b.c. Croesus wanted to declare war on a neighboring country. So, he sent out an envoy to seven oracles to ask them the same question. "What is King Croesus...
Thor Books, 2002 The titular story is the basis for The Twilight Zone episode with William Shatner. Well if you like the show, read the book. Your heartbeat stays erratic the whole time.
Tor Books,2003 A fast paced novel from a master of horror that reads like an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Also, this particular book it written as a play script.
Lion Books , 1953 Richard Matheson's first novel, a noir/thriller from 1953. Young author Dave is caught in a love triangle with Peggy, a beautiful and frightened woman-child, and his old college rival Jerry, a shady lawyer with mob connections. Dave knows one of the other two is a killer. But which one? Jerry tells him that Peggy stabbed her first husband to death; Dave isn't...
A novel in the tradition of Jack Finney's Time and Again, as well as Matheson's own What Dreams May Come. Somewhere in Time inspired a 1980 film starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour that has become a genuine cult classic.
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1998. The book was initially published as "Bid Time Return" in 1975, but after the success of the movie was reprinted under the movie name. A terminally ill man falls in love with a famous turn of the century actress. The only trouble is that they are separated by a span of about seventy five years. What is a man to do? Why travel back in...
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1998. The book was initially published as "Bid Time Return" in 1975, but after the success of the movie was reprinted under the movie name. A terminally ill man falls in love with a famous turn of the century actress. The only trouble is that they are separated by a span of about seventy five years. What is a man to do? Why travel back in...
Tor Books, 2011 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’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...
Rosetta Books, 2011 The story follows Robert Allright as he explores both his own demons and those of psychics past, as he struggles to decipher his father's dying wish to explore an archeological dig in Arizona. His only clue is a mystifying crystal that his father believes is the key to a great discovery.
Rosetta Books, 2011 The book was originally published in 1956. Scott Carey is exposed to a one in a million chemical reaction (brought about by a mysterious sea-spray and being drenched in pesticides) and finds himself shrinking 1/7th of an inch every morning. While the Scientific explanation is a little bit of a throwaway, and left me going `huh?' (like Bruce Banner getting...
The book was written in 1978 by Richard Matheson. The plot centers on Chris, a man who dies and goes to Heaven, but eventually descends into Hell to rescue his wife. It was adapted in 1998 into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same title starring Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Annabella Sciorra. Matheson stated in an interview, "I think What Dreams May Come is the...
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