Richard Matheson

Richard Matheson
Matheson in 2008
Date personale
Născut	20 februarie 1926 Allendale⁠(d), New Jersey, SUA
Decedat	23 iunie 2013 (87 de ani) Los Angeles, California, SUA
Copii	Richard Christian Matheson[*][[Richard Christian Matheson (American writer and screenwriter)|​]] Ali Marie Matheson[*][[Ali Marie Matheson (screenwriter)|​]] Chris Matheson[*][[Chris Matheson (Film director, screenwriter)|​]]
Cetățenie	Statele Unite ale Americii
Ocupație	romancier, autor de povestiri, scenarist
Limbi vorbite	limba engleză
Pseudonim	Logan Swanson
Studii	University of Missouri[*][[University of Missouri (public research university in Columbia, Missouri, USA)|​]] Brooklyn Technical High School[*][[Brooklyn Technical High School (specialized high school in New York City)|​]]
Activitatea literară
Specie literară	Science fiction, fantasy, horror
Influențe Stephen King, Richard Christian Matheson, Joe Hill, Chris Carter
Semnătură

Richard Burton Matheson (n. 20 februarie 1926, Allendale^⁠(d), New Jersey, SUA – d. 23 iunie 2013, Los Angeles, California, SUA) a fost un autor american și scenarist, mai ales în genurile fantasy, horror și science-fiction. Este cel mai cunoscut pentru lucrările What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man și I Am Legend, toate fiind adaptate pentru film. A scris scenariul la câteva episoade din serialul Zona crepusculară.

Lucrări

Romane

• Someone is Bleeding (1953)
• Fury on Sunday (1953)
• I Am Legend (1954)

ro. Sunt o legendă, Editura Rao Books (2008)

• The Shrinking Man (1956); după care s-a făcut filmul The Incredible Shrinking Man
• A Stir of Echoes (1958); după care s-a făcut filmul Stir of Echoes
• Ride the Nightmare (1959)
• The Beardless Warriors (1960)
• Hell House (1971)
• The Night Stalker (1972); sub pseudonimul Jeff Rice
• The Night Strangler (1973)
• Bid Time Return (1975); după care s-a făcut filmul Somewhere in Time
• What Dreams May Come (1978)
• Earthbound (1989)
• Journal of the Gun Years (1991)
• The Gunfight (1993)
• 7 Steps to Midnight (1993)
• Shadow on the Sun (1994)
• Now You See It... (1995)
• The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickock (1996)
• The Path: A New Look at Reality (1999)
• Passion Play (2000)
• Hunger and Thirst (2000)
• Camp Pleasant (2001)
• Abu and the 7 Marvels (2002)
• Hunted Past Reason (2002)
• Come Fygures, Come Shadowes (2003)
• Woman (2006)
• Other Kingdoms (2010)
• Generations (2012)

Povestiri scurte

• "Born of Man and Woman" (1950)
• "Third from the Sun" (1950); adaptat ca un episod Twilight Zone (1960)
• "The Waker Dreams" (a.k.a. "When the Waker Sleeps") (1950)
• "Blood Son" (1951)
• "Through Channels" (1951)
• "Clothes Make the Man" (1951)
• "Return" (1951)
• "The Thing" (1951)
• "Witch War" (1951)
• "Dress of White Silk" (1951)
• "F---" (a.k.a. "The Foodlegger") (1952)
• "Shipshape Home" (1952)
• "SRL Ad" (1952)
• "Advance Notice" (a.k.a. "Letter to the Editor") (1952)
• "Lover, When You're Near Me" (1952)
• "Brother to the Machine" (1952)
• "To Fit the Crime" (1952)
• "The Wedding" (1953)
• "Wet Straw" (1953)
• "Long Distance Call" (a.k.a. "Sorry, Right Number") (1953)
• "Slaughter House" (1953)
• "Mad House" (1953)
• "The Last Day" (1953)
• "Lazarus II" (1953)
• "Legion of Plotters" (1953)
• "Death Ship" (1953); adaptat ca un episod Twilight Zone (1963)
• "Disappearing Act" (1953); adaptat ca un episod Twilight Zone (1959)
• "The Disinheritors" (1953)
• "Dying Room Only" (1953)
• "Full Circle" (1953)
• "Mother by Protest" (a.k.a. "Trespass") (1953)
• "Little Girl Lost" (1953); adaptat ca un episod Twilight Zone (1962)
• "Being" (1954)
• "The Curious Child" (1954)
• "When Day Is Dun" (1954)
• "Dance of the Dead" (1954); adaptat ca un episod Masters of Horror (2005)
• "The Man Who Made the World" (1954)
• "The Traveller" (1954)
• "The Test" (1954)
• "The Conqueror" (19)
• "Dear Diary" (1954)
• "The Doll That Does Everything" (1954)
• "Descent" (1954)
• "Miss Stardust" (1955)
• "The Funeral" (1955); adaptate ca un segment al 'Night Gallery de Rod Serling
• "Too Proud to Lose" (1955)
• "One for the Books" (1955)
• "Pattern for Survival" (1955)
• "A Flourish of Strumpets" (1956)
• "The Splendid Source" (1956); baza episodului Family Guy "The Splendid Source".
• "Steel" (1956); adaptat ca un episod Twilight Zone (1963); vag filmat ca Real Steel (2011)
• "The Children of Noah" (1957)
• "A Visit to Santa Claus" (a.k.a. "I'll Make It Look Good," ca Logan Swanson) (1957)
• "The Holiday Man" (1957)
• "Old Haunts" (1957)
• "The Distributor" (1958)
• "The Edge" (1958)
• "Lemmings" (1958)
• "Now Die in It" (1958)
• "Mantage" (1959)
• "Deadline" (1959)
• "The Creeping Terror" (a.k.a. "A Touch of Grapefruit") (1959)
• "No Such Thing as a Vampire" (1959)
• "Big Surprise" (a.k.a. "What Was in the Box") (1959) Adaptat ca un segment scurt Night Gallery
• "Crickets" (1960)
• "Day of Reckoning" (a.k.a. "The Faces," "Graveyard Shift") (1960)
• "First Anniversary" (1960); adaptat ca un episod Outer Limits (1996)
• "From Shadowed Places" (1960)
• "Finger Prints" (1962)
• "Mute" (1962); adaptat ca un episod Twilight Zone (1963)
• "The Likeness of Julie" (ca Logan Swanson) (1962); adaptat în segmentul "Julie" al filmului TV din 1975 Trilogy of Terror
• "The Jazz Machine" (1963)
• "Crescendo" (a.k.a. "Shock Wave") (1963)
• "Girl of My Dreams" (1963)
• "'Tis the Season to Be Jelly" (1963)
• "Deus Ex Machina" (1963)
• "Interest" (1965)
• "A Drink of Water" (1967)
• "Needle in the Heart" (a.k.a. "Therese") (1969); adaptat în segmentul "Millicent and Therese" al filmului TV din 1975 Trilogy of Terror
• "Prey" (1969); adaptat în segmentul "Ameilia" al filmului TV din 1975 Trilogy of Terror
• "Button, Button" (1970); filmat ca un episod The Twilight Zone în 1986; baza filmului The Box (2009)
• "'Til Death Do Us Part" (1970)
• "By Appointment Only" (1970)
• "The Finishing Touches" (1970)
• "Duel" (1971); filmed as Duel (1971)
• "Big Surprise" (1971); adaptat ca un segment al Night Gallery de Rod Serling
• "Leo Rising" (1972)
• "Where There's a Will" (cu Richard Christian Matheson) (1980)
• "And Now I'm Waiting" (1983)
• "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (ca episod The Twilight Zone în 1963; ca segmentul patru al filmului Twilight Zone: The Movie, 1983; publicat pentru prima oară în 1984)
• "Getting Together" (1986)
• "Buried Talents" (1987)
• "The Near Departed" (1987)
• "Shoo Fly" (1988)
• "Person to Person" (1989)
• "CU: Mannix" (1991)
• "Two O'Clock Session" (1991)
• "The Doll" (Amazing Stories, 1986)
• "Go West, Young Man" (1993)
• "Gunsight" (1993)
• "Little Jack Cornered" (1993)
• "Of Death and Thirty Minutes" (1993)
• "Purge Among Peanuts" (2001)
• "He Wanted to Live" (2002)
• "Professor Fritz and the Runaway House" (2002)
• "Man With a Club" (2003)
• "Haircut" (2006)
• "Life Size" (2008)
• "An Element Never Forgets" (2010)
• "Backteria" (2011)

Colecții de povestiri scurte

• Born of Man and Woman (1954)
• The Shores of Space (1957)
• Shock! (1961)
• Shock 2 (1964)
• Shock 3 (1966)
• Shock Waves (1970) publicat ca Shock 4 în Regatul Unit (1980)
• Button, Button (1970)
• Richard Matheson: Collected Stories (1989)
• By the Gun (1993)
• Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (2000)
• Pride with Richard Christian Matheson (2002)
• Duel (2002)
• Offbeat: Uncollected Stories (2002)
• Darker Places (2004)
• Unrealized Dreams (2004)
• Duel and The Distributor (2005) Previously unpublished screenplays of these two stories
• Button, Button: Uncanny Stories (2008) (Tor Books)
• Uncollected Matheson: Volume 1 (2008)
• Uncollected Matheson: Volume 2 (2010)
• Steel: And Other Stories (2011)
• Bakteria and Other Improbable Tales (2011) (exclusiv e-book)

Filme cinematografice

• The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
• Beat Generation (1959)
• House of Usher (1960)
• Master of the World (Stăpânul lumii, 1961)
• The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
• Burn Witch Burn (1962); a.k.a. Night of the Eagle (scenariu co-scris cu Charles Beaumont și George Baxt) pe baza romanulu Conjure Wife de Fritz Leiber
• Tales of Terror (1962)
• The Raven (Corbul, 1963)
• The Comedy of Terrors (1963)
• The Last Man on Earth (ca "Logan Swanson", bazat pe romanul lui Matheson I Am Legend) (1964)
• Fanatic (1965)
• The Young Warriors (bazat pe romanul lui Matheson The Beardless Warriors) (1967)
• The Devil Rides Out (1968) (bazat pe romanul lui Dennis Wheatley
• De Sade (1969)
• Cold Sweat (bazat pe romanul lui Matheson Ride the Nightmare) (1970)
• The Omega Man (Omul Omega; bazat pe romanul lui Matheson I Am Legend) (1971)
• The Legend of Hell House (bazat pe romanul lui Matheson Hell House) (1973)
• Les Seins de glace (bazat pe romanul lui Matheson Someone Is Bleeding) (1974)
• Somewhere in Time (Undeva, cândva; bazat pe romanul lui Matheson Bid Time Return) (1980)
• Twilight Zone: The Movie: Al patrulea segment "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (1983)
• Jaws 3-D (1983)
• Loose Cannons (1990)
• What Dreams May Come (O iubire fără sfârșit; bazat pe romanul lui Matheson)] (1998)
• Stir of Echoes (Ecouri din tenebre; 1999)
• I Am Legend (bazat pe romanul lui Matheson) (Legenda vie, 2007)
• The Box (Cutia; 2009)
• Real Steel (Pumni de oțel; 2011)

Televiziune

• Buckskin: "Act of Faith" (1959)
• Wanted Dead or Alive :"The Healing Woman" (1959)
• Twilight Zone: (16 episoade) (1959–1964)
• Have Gun Will Travel: "The Lady on The Wall" (1960)
• Bourbon Street Beat: "Target of Hate" (1960)
• Cheyenne: "Home Is The Brave" (1960)
• Lawman (Six episodes) (1960–1962)
• Thriller: "The Return of Andrew Bentley" (1961)
• Combat!: "Forgotten Front" (ca Logan Swanson) (1962)
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: "Ride the Nightmare" (1962)
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: "The Thirty-First of February" (1963)
• The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.: "The Atlantis Affair" (1966)
• Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theater : "Time of Flight" (1966)
• Star Trek: The Original Series: "The Enemy Within" (1966)
• Duel (1971)
• The Night Stalker (1972)
• Night Gallery (1972): " The Funeral" (1972)
• The Night Strangler (1973)
• Dying Room Only (1973)
• Circle of Fear (titlu original Ghost Story (1973))
• Bram Stoker's Dracula (1974)
• Scream of The Wolf (1974)
• The Morning After (1974)
• Trilogy of Terror (1975) film TV antologie.
• Dead of Night (1977). film TV antologie regizat de Dan Curtis.
• The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver (1977)
• The Martian Chronicles mini-series (1979, 1980)
• Twilight Zone: "Button, Button" (ca Logan Swanson) (1986)
• Amazing Stories: "The Doll" (1986)
• Amazing Stories: "One for the Books" (1987)
• Dreamer of Oz (1990). About L. Frank Baum.
• Rod Serling's Lost Classics (1994)
• Trilogy of Terror II (1996) film TV antologie.

Non-ficțiune

• The Path: Metaphysics for the 90s (1993)

Lectură suplimentară

• California Sorcery, editată de William F. Nolan și William Schafer
• Jad Hatem, Charité de l'infinitésimal, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2007

Legături externe

• Format:Commons category-inșine
• Richard Matheson la Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Matheson biography at tabula-rasa.info
• Richard Matheson featured on AMC-TV's Sci-Fi Department webshow
• Richard Matheson la Internet Movie Database
• en Richard Matheson la Memory Alpha (site wiki pentru Star Trek)
• Richard Matheson Archive of American Television Interview
• Richard Matheson la Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame