Richard Matheson

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  • Bibliography:
    76 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1954
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Multi-Author Series List

Hot Blood

Seeds of Fear (Apr-2005)

Star Trek

Matheson Uncollected (Aug-2008)

Book List in Order: 76 titles

  • I Am Legend

    THE LAST MAN ON EARTH IS NOT ALONE Robert Neville may well be the only survivor of an incurable plague that has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he scavenges...

  • Third From the Sun

    This is the best kind of science-fiction! The work of a curious mind unafraid to explore the limitless possibilities of human --and unhuman--vagaries. Utterly believable characters--people you might know, maybe even you yourself--are set against the ...

  • Hell House

    Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newspaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establis...

  • Bid Time Return

    • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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  • What Dreams May Come

    Richard Matheson's What Dreams May Come, a powerful tale of life--and love--after death was the basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Robin Williams. The New York Times bestsellerA LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS HEAVEN AND HELLWhat happens to us after we ...

  • The Shrinking Man

    The legendary novel of science-fiction horror: “The author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson” (Stephen King).   After he is exposed to a radioactive cloud, Scott Carey finds himself shrinking, slowly, day-by-day, in...

  • Shock 1

  • Shock 3

    The author, Richard Matheson (1926) recently died in June, 2013. An American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, He will probably be remembered more --- even though he had a huge output of writings -...

  • Darker



  • Somewhere in Time and What Dreams May Come

  • Journal of the Gun Years

    Back East, they told tall tales about Marshall Clay Halser, the fearless Civil War veteran who became known as the "Hero of the Plains" for his daring exploits in the Wild West. But the truth, as revealed in his private journals, is even more compel...

  • 7 Steps to Midnight

    In this suspense thriller by the author of I Am Legend and Now You See It, a man is on the run for his life after he’s replaced by an impostor.Government mathematician Chris Barton lives a routine life -- until, at the end of an ordi...

  • Gun Fight

    John Benton was one of the toughest men ever to wear a Texas Ranger badge. But eight years ago, in August 1871, he hung up his guns for good.Or so he hoped.Then young Robby Coles challenged him to a fight over some imagined slight to the boy's sixte...

  • Created by

    “Devastating . . . a masterly fable, told with insight, wit, and welcome venom . . . this is Hollywood Hell.” -- Clive BarkerAlan White is a hot young writer-producer looking for the one megahit every Hollywood writer dreams about. He thinks he...

  • By the Gun

    A lawman who is going blind prepares for a showdown -- by sharpening his other four senses against a senseless killer... A city boy steps off the stagecoach -- with a fool's dream of outshooting the fastest gunman in town... A ranchhand wins a ...

  • Earthbound

    A ghost story from the celebrated author of Hell House and I Am Legend, featuring a succubus homewrecker preying upon a troubled marriage.In 1982, before Matheson had fully achieved the cult-and-grandmaster status that he has today, Playboy Press pub...

  • Shadow on the Sun

    Originally published as a mass-market Western in 1994, Shadow on the Sun has been out of print for years and was largely overlooked by horror fans and general readers. Now at last this forgotten tale of supernatural terror returns to chill the blood...

  • Seven Steps to Midnight

  • Now You See It

    The author of I Am Legend transforms a lonely mansion into a madhouse where a group must face grisly tricks, shocking twists, and the mind of a killer.In Now You See It, the prolific master of suspense and horror delivers a knock-out tale the li...



  • The Incredible Shrinking Man

    Long out of print until now, the classic story--the basis of the 1957 Universal motion picture of the same name--is accompanied by several other tales of suspense by a multi-award-winning writer. Reprint....

  • The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok

    Wild Bill Hickok was a celebrity before there ever was a Hollywood. And he was dead before he was forty.Now Richard Matheson, Spur Award-winning author of Journal of the Gun Years, delves into the life and times of James Butler Hickok . . . gunfight...

  • Somewhere in Time

    Like What Dreams May Come, which inspired the upcoming movie starring Robin Williams, Somewhere in Time is the powerful story of a love that transcends time and space, written by one of the Grand Masters of modern fantasy.Matheson's classic novel tel...

  • The Path

    Richard Matheson's bestselling novel, What Dreams May Come, the basis for the hit movie starring Robin Williams, touched numerous readers with its convincing portrait of life after death, based on years of research and personal reflection. Like that ...

  • A Stir of Echoes

    This eerie ghost story, from Richard Matheson, the award-winning author of Hell House and I Am Legend, inspired the acclaimed 1999 film starring Kevin Bacon. Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he nev...

  • Passion Play

  • Mediums Rare

    Prolific screenwriter and genre novelist has long maintained an interest in parapsychology, telepathy, ESP and the like. His brief and elegantly printed new volume amounts to a lightly fictionalized history and quick, evocative episodes of paranormal...

  • Camp Pleasant

    This tale of summer camp horror and mystery by the author of I Am Legend is “a deeply engaging story with a clear writing style that is a pleasure to read” (Publishers Weekly).   Camp Pleasant is a place of natural beauty and campfire singal...

  • The Last Flight

  • The Beardless Warriors

    In 1944, long before he wrote such classic novels as I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come, author Richard Matheson served as an eighteen-year-old replacement in the 87th Division during the latter part of the war in Europe. His tour of duty there ins...



  • Nightmare At 20,000 Feet

    Personally selected by Richard Matheson, the bestselling author of I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come, the stories in Nightmare at 20,000 feet more than demonstrate why Matheson's regarded as one of our most influential horror writers.Featuring th...

  • Abu and the 7 Marvels

    From the land of genies and their magical feats comes this enchanting twist on the traditional quest tale. Abu, a young peasant, sets off with the most ancient genie in his country's domain in search of the seven marvels of the world in order to prov...

  • Hunted Past Reason

    The bestselling author of such classic novels as I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come, Richard Matheson is one of the twentieth century's acknowledged masters of suspense. Hunted Past Reason is a major literary event: Matheson's first new novel in se...

  • Pride

  • Duel

    Remember that murderous semi chasing Dennis Weaver down a lonely stretch of desert highway? Duel, Steven Spielberg's acclaimed first film, was adapted by Richard Matheson from his unforgettable story of the same name.But "Duel" is only one of the cla...

  • Come Fygures, Come Shadowes

  • Richard Matheson's Kolchak Scripts

  • Collected Stories, Volume 1

  • Darker Places

  • Collected Stories, Volume 2

    Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Volume Two, edited by Stanley Wiater, gathers 30 tales by America's master of the macabre along with tributes by Jack Finney and George Clayton Johnson. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information....



  • Seeds of Fear

    Hot Blood

    Fear, like love, needs time to grow.... It begins with the slightest feeling--from a shiver up your spin to a chill in your heart, you know that something is approaching, drawing ever closer in your mind's eye. Something sinful...seductive...and sav...

  • Woman

    AFTERWORDWhen I am asked how I got the idea for any particular novel, I can (usually) provide an answer.For I Am Legend, it came while I was viewing Bela Lugosi's Dracula. It occurred to me that if one vampire is scary, what if the whole world ...

  • Richard Matheson, Volume 3: Collected Stories

    RICHARD MATHESON: COLLECTED STORIES VOL. 3 IS THE LAST OF A THREE VOLUME SET OF RICHARD MATHESON'S COLLECTED STORIES. VOLUME THREE INCLUDES SOME OF MATHESON'S MOST FAMOUS STORIES INCLUDING DUEL UPON WHICH THE STEVEN SPIELBERG MOVIE WAS BASED. 33 STOR...

  • Unrealized Dreams

  • Bloodlines

  • Visions of Death

  • Button, Button

    This collection of stories features "Button, Button," the basis for the motion picture, "The Box," starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden. Button, Button: Uncanny Stories contains a number of tales that were also adapted for television, as well as...

  • The Richard Matheson Companion

  • Matheson Uncollected

    Star Trek

  • Richard Matheson's Hell House

    • IDW brings you this lavishly illustrated adaptation of Richard Matheson's tale of newspaper publisher Rudolph Deutsch facing his impending demise. To help Deutsch forestall his death and to learn the secrets of life after death, a team of ex...



  • Visions Deferred

  • The Box

    What if you were told that you could make a fortune just by pushing a button on a box? But pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world . . . someone you don't know. Would you still push the...

  • Other Kingdoms

    For over half a century, Richard Matheson has enthralled and terrified readers with such timeless classics as I Am Legend, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Duel, Somewhere in Time, and What Dreams May Come. Now the Grand Master returns with a bewitching...

  • Lyrics

    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 ne...

  • Backteria and Other Improbable Tales

    An essential collection of rare tales of terror from the multi-award-winning Twilight Zone scripter and I Am Legend author -- only available in ebook format.   A researcher encounters an exotic new strain of “Backteria” that causes the infec...

  • Steel

    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 f...

  • Road Rage

    • Acclaimed novelist/Eisner-winning graphic novelist Joe Hill collaborated with his father, Stephen King, in Throttle, for the first time on a tale that paid tribute to Richard Matheson's classic tale, Duel. Now, IDW is proud to present comic-...

  • Generations

    GENERATIONS is an autobiographical novel by Richard Matheson which will be published exclusively by Gauntlet Press. GENERATIONS takes place at a gathering of the Matheson family after the funeral of Matheson's father. While this meeting didn't actual...

  • Matheson Uncollected: Backteria and Other Improbable Tales

    In 2008, Gauntlet Press published MATHESON UNCOLLECTED: VOLUME ONE, followed by VOLUME TWO in 2010, both as signed limited editions. This winter, we're bringing you MATHESON UNCOLLECTED: BACKTERIA AND OTHER IMPROBABLE TALES, a tradepaperback which wi...

  • Slaughter House

    In Acres of Diamonds, Russell H. Conwell shows us how to identify the riches and opportunity that lie all around us. Many people search their entire life for opportunity never realizing that everything they need to succeed is already within their rea...

  • Leaqve Yesterday Alone

    In October 2012, Richard Matheson found a journal he started in 1993, in which he wrote a page a day on and off for several years. He eventually put it away, adding to it again from 2003-2005. This journal, MUSINGS is the closest to being a Richard M...

  • Fury On Sunday

    An early pulse-pounding thriller from the Twilight Zone scribe and multi-award-winning author of I Am Legend.   Vincent was a brilliant pianist, but a disturbed personality. The asylum he was committed to could not hold him. He escaped on an ear...

  • Ride the Nightmare

    In this pulp noir thriller for fans of Cornell Woolrich, a man’s past invades his serene family life, and it’s not going away quietly.At 32, Chris Martin lives a conventional life. He’s married with a daughter, runs his own small business, and ...

  • Someone Is Bleeding

    A simple crush could lead to an early grave in this pulp noir thriller for fans of Cornell Woolrich.Young novelist Dave Newton is instantly smitten when he meets blonde, beautiful Peggy. But Peggy has a past full of abuse and terror -- and she’s in...

  • Fury on Sunday & The Agony Column

    Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-suspense double novels. The first novel is “Fury on Sunday” by one of the great science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers of the 20th Century, Richard Matheson. It is one of his...

  • The Waker Dreams

    There's nothing like exciting fantasy to escape boredom. The problem is to know whether it's actually a fantasy. Dipping low and weaving in and out among the glittering towers, one might see the moving walks, the studied revolution of the giant stree...

  • KOLCHAK: The Night Strangler Files

    This collection reprints the adaptation of the TV movie “The Night Strangler” written by the legendary RICHARD MATHESON, and the three issues of “Kolchak: The Night Stalker Files” comic by Chris Mills. Carl Kolch...

  • Offbeat: Uncollected Stories

    In the aptly titled Offbeat, Richard Matheson, a modern master of strange fiction, offers thirteen excursions into the unsettling and bizarre. In these stories you will encounter a major league pitcher with a horrific secret for his astonishing su...

  • Journal of the Gun Years and the Gun Fight

    JOURNAL OF THE GUN YEARS A callow youth in search of excitement, Clay Halser travels the raucous frontier towns where a steady nerve and ready trigger finger soon mark him as a gunfighter to be reckoned with. As both an outlaw and lawman, he carves ...

  • The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok and Shadow on the Sun

    A fictional account of the life of James Butler Hickok recreates the events that caused the gunfighter and U.S. Marshal to turn violent and the exploits that transformed him into a legend of the Western frontier. ...

  • The Best of Richard Matheson

    Among the greats of 20th-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson. Though known by many for novels like I Am Legend and his sixteen Twilight Zone episodes, Matheson truly shines in his chilling, masterful short stories. Sinc...

  • The Man Who Made The World

    The patient was obviously deranged, but Dr. Janishefsky had to make sure first. So he sat back in his chair and began to question -- The Man Who Made The World. A classic science fiction story by the acclaimed author of "We Are Legend."...

  • Return of Sally

    is a bone-chilling tale of vengeance and the horrifying echoes of the past. Decades after the mysterious disappearance of a young girl named Sally Barrett, the town of Millhaven has moved on, burying her memory under layers of time and whispers. But ...

  • Ghost Trilogy

    • / Horror
    • Buy Buy

  • Shock II

    • / Horror
    • Buy Buy

  • Shock Waves

    • / Horror
    • Buy Buy

  • Drink My Blood

    in The Midnight People
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

Award-Winning Books by Richard Matheson

Abu and the 7 Marvels
2003 Benjamin Franklin Award -- Young Adult Fiction
Bid Time Return
1976 World Fantasy Award -- Novel
I Am Legend
2011 Bram Stoker Award -- Vampire Novel of Century
Journal of the Gun Years
1991 SPUR Award -- Western Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard Matheson has published 76 books.

Richard Matheson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Return of Sally, was published in December 2024.

The first book by Richard Matheson, I Am Legend, was published in January 1954.

No. Richard Matheson does not write books in series.
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