New Releases by Richard Matheson

Ein Roman, so unsterblich wie ein Vampir. Robert Neville ist der letzte lebende Mensch ... Alle anderen wurden durch eine Seuche zu Vampiren. Und diese Kreaturen gieren nach seinem Blut. Tagsüber ist er der Jäger, der in den verlassenen Ruinen der Zivilisation nach den schlafenden Untoten sucht und sie vernichtet. Nachts verbarrikadiert er sich in seinem Haus und betet darum, dass der neue Tag endlich anbricht. Wie lange kann ein einzelner Mann in einer Welt voller Vampire überleben? Dean Koontz: »Der intelligenteste und fesselndste Vampirroman seit Dracula.« Stephen King: »Richard Matheson ist der Autor, der mich am meisten beeinflusst hat.« Washington Post: »Man kann Richard Matheson mit Fug und Recht als den einflussreichsten amerikanischen Fantastik-Autor zwischen H. P. Lovecraft und Stephen King bezeichnen.« Der berühmte Klassiker I AM LEGEND in neuer Übersetzung. Er wurde bereits viermal verfilmt und 2012 zum »besten Vampirroman der letzten hundert Jahre« gekürt.

Durante una gita in barca, Scott Carey, un uomo come tanti, marito e padre, viene a contatto con una misteriosa sostanza radioattiva e dopo qualche settimana inizia a notare dei cambiamenti. Sta perdendo peso, ma sta anche diventando più basso. Gli esami medici confermano l''incredibile quanto innegabile verità: Scott sta rimpicciolendo, con ritmo costante e inesorabile. Tre millimetri al giorno, per la precisione. E non sembrano esserci vie di scampo. La moglie e la figlia diventano giganti irraggiungibili, il gatto di casa un minaccioso mostro carnivoro. Persa ogni speranza di tornare a una vita normale, Carey si trova a lottare per sopravvivere in un mondo sempre più ostile e minaccioso. Ed è solo l''inizio del suo viaggio verso l''ignoto. Rimasto presto solo, terrorizzato, deve affrontare i limiti estremi dell''esistenza: cosa succederà infatti quando arriverà a misurare zero millimetri? Ma soprattutto, cosa c''è oltre lo zero? Capolavoro del genere fantascientifico e horror, Tre millimetri al giorno alterna con crescente suspense scene drammatiche e d''azione e le riflessioni solitarie del protagonista sul destino che lo aspetta. Una potente metafora del ridimensionamento del ruolo del maschio americano nel secondo dopoguerra, ma anche un avvertimento contro i rischi del pericolo nucleare in piena Guerra Fredda e contro il folle e autodistruttivo atteggiamento dell''uomo verso il pianeta.

Robert Neville es el único superviviente de una guerra bacteriológica que ha asolado el planeta y convertido al resto de la humanidad en vampiros. Su vida se ha reducido a asesinar el máximo número posible de estos seres sanguinarios durante el día, y a soportar su asedio cada noche. Para ellos, el auténtico monstruo es este hombre que lucha por subsistir en un nuevo orden establecido. Todo un clásico en su género, éste es un perturbador relato sobre la soledad y el aislamiento y una reflexión sobre los binomios como normalidad y anormalidad, bien y mal, que se evidencian como una mera convención derivada del temor y el desconcierto ante lo diferente. Soy leyenda está considerada la mejor novela de vampiros del siglo XX y ha inspirado tres películas, la más reciente protagonizada por Will Smith. Recuperamos el clásico Soy leyenda, de Richard Matheson, en nuestra colección Minotauro Esenciales.

Robert Neville è probabilmente l''ultimo uomo vivente sul pianeta... eppure non è solo. Un morbo incurabile ha trasformato uomini, donne e bambini in vampiri assetati di sangue. Di giorno Robert attraversa le rovine della civiltà, seguendo le tracce dei mostri come un cacciatore sulle orme della preda, li studia, sperimenta nuovi modi per sterminarli. Di notte si barrica in casa, assediato dalle creature delle tenebre, e implora che sorga presto il sole... Rovesciando la situazione di Dracula, vampiro nel mondo degli uomini, Matheson immagina un uomo solo in un mondo di creature mostruose, dando vita a uno degli scenari più fortunati della letteratura e del cinema novecentesco. Quello che - con la sua scrittura ossessivamente cristallina, asciutta, ipnotica - Matheson dipinge è un mondo apocalittico, straniato, nel quale ogni valore e ogni certezza vengono stravolti. Chi sono i buoni e chi i cattivi? Ci sono davvero dei buoni e dei cattivi? O ci sono solo eventi e creature che sfuggono alla comprensione razionale e alla catalogazione scientifica? L''orrore, suggerisce Matheson, ci abita accanto.

Adaptación al cómic de un clásico de la literatura universal La exploración que hace Richard Matheson de la horripilante mengua de un hombre cobra enérgica vida en esta adaptación al cómic. Scott Carey, cuyo tamaño se reduce algo menos de 0,4 centímetros al día, se enfrenta a lo grande y a lo pequeño sin que su cuerpo deje de menguar, menguar y menguar. La versión está a cargo de Ted Adams, presidente de la prestigiosa editorial norteamericana independiente IDW (Transformers, My Little Pony).

The definitive collection of terrifying stories by "one of the greatest writers of the 20th century" (Ray Bradbury), edited by award-winning author Victor LaValle 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. Since his first story appeared in 1950, virtually every major writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy has fallen under his influence, including Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub, and Joe Hill, as well as filmmakers like Stephen Spielberg and J.J. Abrams. Matheson revolutionized horror by taking it out of Gothic castles and strange cosmos and setting it in the darkened streets and suburbs we recognize as our own. He infused tales of the fantastic and supernormal with dark explorations of human nature, delving deep into the universal dread of feeling alone and threatened in a dangerous world. The Best of Richard Matheson brings together his greatest hits as chosen by Victor LaValle, an expert on horror fiction and one of its brightest talents, marking the first major overview of Matheson's legendary career. "[Matheson is] the author who influenced me most as a writer." -Stephen King "Richard Matheson's ironic and iconic imagination created seminal science-fiction stories . . . For me, he is in the same category as Bradbury and Asimov." -Steven Spielberg "He was a giant, and YOU KNOW HIS STORIES, even if you think you don't." -Neil Gaiman For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Journal of the Gun Years and The Gun Fight -- two great novels from New York Times bestselling author, Richard Matheson. 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 out a legendary career. But fame proves to be the one enemy he can’t outdraw.... The Gun Fight John Benton was one of the toughest men ever to wear a Texas Ranger badge. But eight years ago, he hung up his guns for good. Or so he hoped. When young Robby Coles challenges John to a fight over an imagined slight, Benton tries to laugh off the affair. But rumors and gossip spread like wildfire through their dusty town and soon enough the entire community seems to be pushing both men towards a confrontation neither truly wants. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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 ordinary workday, he finds his car missing from the employee parking lot. When he finally arrives home, there is a stranger living in his house—a man who claims to be him. Thrust suddenly into a surreal world where the evidence of his senses cannot be trusted and strangers are trying to kill him, Chris must avoid violent assassins while following a trail of cryptic clues to regain his life . . . "Matheson is the master of paranoia—pitting a single man against unknown horrors and examining his every slow twist in the wind. 7 Steps is a book to be devoured in one long swallow." — San Jose Mercury News "Richard Matheson is one of the great names in American terror fiction. 7 Steps to Midnight commands attention. . . . The writing is fortunately up to Matheson's high standards. This is a novel that flies across the page." — The Philadelphia Inquirer Praise for Richard Matheson "The author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson." —Stephen King "One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century." —Ray Bradbury

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À trente-six ans, Richard Collier se sait condamné à brève échéance. Pour tromper son désespoir, il voyage, au hasard, jusqu''à échouer dans un vieil hôtel aux bords du Pacifique. Envoûté par cette demeure surannée, il tombe bientôt sous le charme d''un portrait ornant les murs de l''hôtel : celui d''Elise McKenna, une célèbre actrice ayant vécu à la fin du XIXe siècle. La bibliothèque, les archives de l''hôtel lui livrent des bribes de son histoire, et peu à peu la curiosité cède le pas à l''admiration, puis à l''amour. Un amour au-delà de toute logique, si puissant qu''il lui fera traverser le temps pour rejoindre sa bien-aimée. Mais si l''on peut tromper le temps, peut-on tromper la mort ?

As the Army and the Apache experience an uneasy peace, the discovery of the body of a man who had been brutally murdered and mutilated threatens to ignite all-out war, and it is up to Indian Agent Billjohn Finley to prevent it.

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 tale of erotic suspense and enchantment.... 1918. A young American soldier recently wounded in the Great War, Alex White comes to Gatford to escape his troubled past. The pastoral English village seems the perfect spot to heal his wounded body and soul. True, the neighboring woods are said to be haunted by capricious, even malevolent, spirits, but surely those are just old wives'' tales. Aren''t they? A frightening encounter in the forest leads him into the arms of Magda Variel, an alluring red-haired widow rumored to be a witch. She warns him to steer clear of the wood and the perilous faerie kingdom it borders, but Alex cannot help himself. Drawn to its verdant mysteries, he finds love, danger...and wonders that will forever change his view of the world.

¿Qué nos ocurre tras la muerte? Chris Nielsen no tiene ni idea hasta que un grave accidente acaba con su corta vida y lo separa de su amada esposa, Annie. Ahora Chris tendrá que arreglárselas en el lugar desconocido que le espera después de dejar este mundo. Pero ni siquiera el cielo está completo sin Annie, y cuando la tragedia amenaza con separarlos para siempre, Chris arriesga su propia alma para salvarla de una eternidad de sufrimiento.

Richard Collier, un hombre de nuestros días, se obsesiona con una mujer de otra época, una célebre actriz de finales del siglo XIX. Su embelesamiento con Elise McKenna llega a intensificarse tanto que consigue transportarse físicamente al año 1896, donde conoce y corteja a la mujer de su vida. Pero, ¿por cuánto tiempo puede la pasión de los amantes resistir la despiadada marejada de la historia?

Scott Carey, un ciudadano normal y corriente, se percata un buen día que su estatura disminuye de modo progresivo. Impulsado por su enérgico temperamento, procura adaptarse a sus nuevas dimensiones. Su vida se convierte en una tragedia. Su esposa y su familia se convierten en gigantes inalcanzables y su gato en una peligrosa amenaza. Scott tiene que luchar para sobrevivir en un mundo de proporciones cada vez más gigantescas... Enfrentado a peligros inimaginables, e impulsado por un férreo afán de supervivencia, se prepara para ingresar en dimensiones desconocidas...

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 episode of the original Twilight Zone television series, is just one of over a dozen unforgettable tales in this outstanding collection, which includes two new stories that have never appeared in any previous Matheson collection. Also featured is a bizarre satirical fantasy, "The Splendid Source," that was turned into an episode of The Family Guy. 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 was recently inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Steel: And Other Stories demonstrates once again the full range of his legendary imagination. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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 infected person to vanish—leading the doctor on a path of discovery deep into a past he should have left buried. A simple "Haircut" that starts off as a routine trim becomes a dark and terrifying experience when a barber is confronted with a sick customer who seems otherworldly. A case of mistaken identity leads to a darkly farcical story of marriage, murder, and a love that knows no bounds in "Getting Together." Backteria & Other Improbable Tales gathers these and sixteen more uncanny short stories from master storyteller Richard Matheson, "one of the great names in American terror fiction" ( The Philadelphia Inquirer). Stories include: "Backteria", "He Wanted to Live", "Life Size", "Man with a Club", "Professor Fritz and the Runaway House", "Purge Among Peanuts", "The Prisoner", "The Last Blah in the ETC", "Counterfeit Bills", "1984 1⁄2", "Pride", "Now Die In It", "Leo Rising", "Where There's a Will" (written with Richard Christian Matheson), "Getting Together", "Person to Person", "CU: Mannix", "Haircut", "An Element Never Forgets" "The author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson." —Stephen King "Perhaps no other living author is as responsible for chilling a generation with tantalizing nightmare visions." — The New York Times "Matheson's a writer who just has the special knack, the deft skill to imagine terrifying scenarios on any scale, large and small, and give them chilling possibility." — Los Angeles Times

The visionary first novel by the author of What Dreams May Come in which a man paralyzed by a gunshot reflects on his sordid past and hopes for redemption. Hunger and Thirst is Richard Matheson''s first and until now previously unpublished novel, written fifty-plus years ago when Matheson was only twenty-three-years-old. Matheson''s agent told him it was unpublishable due to its length and so to that end, Matheson put the manuscript in a drawer and left for California where his writing career changed dramatically. Hunger and Thirst centers around Erick, who lies paralyzed on his hospital bed after being shot during a botched bank robbery. Erick contemplates how his life became such a mess—from his childhood, to his service in the war, his romantic life, and now—and holds out hope to be saved... Perfect for fans of Stephen King''s Gerald''s Game Praise for Richard Matheson "One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century."—Ray Bradbury "The author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson."—Stephen King

En 1940 una expedición de cinco personas se internó en la infame Casa Belasco para desentrañar los misterios de la que era considerada como la casa más peligrosa del mundo. Sólo uno de ellos consiguió salir con vida. Treinta años después, el millonario Rolf Randolph Deutsch contrata a cuatro extraños, entre ellos el único superviviente de la masacre de 1940, para demostrar la existencia de la vida después de la muerte. Para ello deberán pasar una semana en la Casa Belasco. La Casa Infernal les ha permitido entrar, pero ¿los dejará salir? De todas las novelas sobre casas encantadas, La Casa Infernal es la más aterradora que se ha escrito jamás. Destaca sobre las demás, como las montañas despuntan sobre las colinas.» Stephen King

From the iconic author of I Am Legend: The fascinating, unfinished teleplay of a saga encompassing the Titanic, Jack the Ripper, and the paranormal. Richard Matheson, the celebrated Twilight Zone scripter, explored his interests in metaphysics, spiritualism, and parapsychology in such stories as Hell House, Somewhere in Time, and What Dreams May Come. In the early 1980s, he approached the ABC television network with a twenty-hour mini-series about such phenomena in contemporary times—and included two in-depth historical accounts of the psychic events related to the Jack the Ripper murders and in the Titanic disaster. Titled The Link, Matheson turned in a 557-page outline that ABC executives requested he condense into seven hour-long episodes. Unable to realize his original vision under such restrictions, Matheson abandoned the television project and attempted to novelize the outline. After writing 800 pages that only comprised the first part of the novel, he decided it was too unwieldy and moved on to other stories. Now, Matheson''s fans can discover what might have been with this publication of The Link, which includes the entire original outline as well as part of the teleplay. The story follows Robert Allright, a writer working with paranormal investigator Cathy Graves to decipher a mystery unearthed by his father in an Arizona archeological dig. Allright''s only clue is the mystifying crystal that his father believes is the key to a great discovery. "The author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson." —Stephen King "Matheson peppers [ The Link] with innumerable historical incidents of supposed paranormal activity that make fascinating reading." — Publishers Weekly

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 singalongs. But when Matt Harper arrives there to work as a counselor, he discovers it is also a place of unrelenting abuse and brutality. The new camp director "Big Ed" Nolan is such a bully that the bucolic paradise feels more like a miniature Third Reich . . . until someone finally has enough and kills Big Ed. The suspects include a troubled young camper, a counselor who quit in the face of homophobic humiliation, and Big Ed''s own wife, Ellen. "[This] minimalist plot would be inadequate in other hands, but Matheson—author of Somewhere in Time and Hell House as well as classic Twilight Zone teleplays—has such a command of his craft that this book is a pure pleasure . . .The simple style recalls Hemingway" ( Publishers Weekly).

Together in one volume, the epic stories of two legendary gunfighters! Journal of the Gun Years Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Novel Back East, they told tall tales of Marshal Clay Hauser, the steely-eyed Civil War veteran who became known as the "Hero of the Plains" for his daring exploits in the raucous cow towns of the frontier. But fame proves to be the one enemy he can never outdraw–and a curse that haunts him to his violent end . . . . The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok James Butler Hickok was a celebrity before there was a Hollywood. As a gunfighter and U.S. marshal, he carved out a legend greater than any fictional hero. Now read the unforgettable story of the man behind the myth. "Matheson excels at the depiction of one man alone, locked in a desperate struggle against a force or forces greater than himself." --Stephen King At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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 seven years-and a gripping tale of madness, paranoia, and murder. It's supposed to be just an ordinary camping trip, two old acquaintances hiking through the wilderness toward a remote cabin in the woods of northern California. Bob Hansen, a middle-aged family man and author, isn't anticipating anything worse than sore muscles and maybe a few chilly nights. But the enforced isolation of the hike soon exposes long-hidden rivalries and resentments between Bob and his guide through the forest, a fading TV actor whom Bob has known for several years. The deeper they get into the primeval wilderness and the farther from civilization, the greater the tension between the two men becomes-until the simmering hostility erupts into a terrifying life-or-death struggle for survival. Two men entered the woods, but only one may emerge alive. Hunted Past Reason is a nail-biting thriller in the classic Matheson tradition. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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 button? "Button, Button," Richard Matheson's chilling tale of greed and temptation, is now the basis of The Box, the new film from the director of Donnie Darko. In addition, this outstanding collection also contains many other unforgettable stories by Matheson, the award-winning author of I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come. "The inventive plots and spare but convincing portraits of ordinary men and women caught up in forces beyond their control demonstrate why Stephen King has called Matheson his most significant influence." --Publishers Weekly At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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 compelling. A callow youth in search of excitement, Halser travels to the raucous cow towns of the frontier, where his steady nerve and ready trigger finger soon mark him as a gunfighter to be reckoned with. As both an outlaw and a lawman, he carves out a legendary career. But fame proves to be the one enemy he can never outdraw–and a curse that haunts him to the bitter end . . . . At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

When Richard Collier, a dying screenwriter, becomes infatuated with Elise McKenna, a celebrated actress at the turn of the century, his love proves strong enough to bring him through time to her side.

The New York Times bestseller A LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS HEAVEN AND HELL What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death. But even Heaven is not complete without Annie, and when tragedy threatens to divide them forever, Chris risks his very soul to save Annie from an eternity of despair. Richard Matheson's powerful tale of life---and love---after death was the basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Robin Williams.

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 the story "Duel," a nail-biting tale of man versus machines that inspired Steven Spielberg's first film. Remember that monster on the wing of the airplane? William Shatner saw it on The Twilight Zone, John Lithgow saw it in the movie-even Bart Simpson saw it. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is just one of many classic horror stories by Richard Matheson that have insinuated themselves into our collective imagination. Here are more than twenty of Matheson's most memorable tales of fear and paranoia, including: "Prey," in which a terrified woman is stalked by a malevolent Tiki doll, as chillingly captured in yet another legendary TV moment; "Blood Son," a disturbing portrait of a strange little boy who dreams of being a vampire; "Dress of White Silk," a seductively sinister tale of evil and innocence. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.