New Releases by Richard Matheson

1981 Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film (Given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Films). A love story, wherein a young man uses hypnosis to find the woman in an old hotel portrait.

"The novel that inspired the thrilling new movie from Artisan Entertainment starring Kevin Bacon"--Cover.

Un homme qui voit soudain s'effacer tous les repères de son existence, une brèche vers un autre univers sous le canapé du salon, de sournoises invasions extraterrestres, l'humanité face à son dernier jour, une voix d'outre-tombe au téléphone... Ce deuxième des cinq volumes composant l'intégrale des nouvelles de Matheson - présentées dans l'ordre de leur composition et des traductions nouvelles ou soigneusement revues - correspond encore aux débuts fort prolifiques de l'auteur, puisqu'il couvre les seules années 1952-1953. Que ce soit dans le domaine du fantastique, de la science-fiction ou du suspense (Matheson commence alors à écrire pour les revues policières), il s'impose comme un maître de l'inquiétude et de la terreur en des récits denses, très variés dans l'approche narrative, aux chutes qui laissent pantois. Il traduit surtout à merveille, déjà, la grande maladie des temps modernes : la paranoïa. Ray Bradbury, un connaisseur, le salue ici comme un écrivain qui " transcende toutes les étiquettes ".

What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him abruptly 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. Can love bring together what Heaven and Hell have torn asunder?

Maximilian Delacorte was once the world''s greatest stage magician--until a mysterious disease ended his career forever. Now, after months of seclusion, Max has lured his family and associates to his lonely mansion for an afternoon of magic, madness and revenge. As grisly tricks lead to ever more surprising twists, not even The Great Delacorte can tell where the illusion ends and murder begins.

Hollywood screenwriter Matheson''s first novel is a glossy thriller set in the ruthless world of prime-time TV. When a young TV writer finally comes up with a blockbuster--a violent series called "The Mercenary"--the plots he creates chillingly become real. For a copycat killer is imitating events from the show. . . .

Originally published: New York: Viking Press, 1975.

Affected by radiation, the main character, a family man in suburbia begins to shrink so that the safe and comforting aspects of home become ever more menacing. An undoubted classic of the fifties sci fi and still one of the most intelligent and well crafted films of the genre which effectively captures the paranoia of Cold War America.