Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Someone Is Bleeding | 1953 |
| Fury on Sunday | 1953 |
| I Am Legend | 1954 |
| The Shrinking Man / The Incredible Shrinking Man | 1956 |
| A Stir of Echoes | 1958 |
| Ride the Nightmare | 1959 |
| The Beardless Warriors | 1960 |
| Hell House | 1971 |
| Bid Time Return / Somewhere in Time | 1975 |
| What Dreams May Come | 1978 |
| Earthbound | 1982 |
| 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 Hickok | 1996 |
| Hunger and Thirst | 2000 |
| Passion Play | 2001 |
| Camp Pleasant | 2001 |
| Hunted Past Reason | 2002 |
| Come Fygures, Come Shadowes | 2003 |
| Woman | 2005 |
| The Link | 2006 |
| Other Kingdoms | 2011 |
| Generations | 2012 |
| Leave Yesterday Alone and Musings | 2014 |
| Kolchak: The Night Stalker: Nightkillers (With: Chuck Miller) | 2017 |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Pride (With: Richard Christian Matheson) | 2002 |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Born of Man and Woman / Third from the Sun | 1954 |
| The Shores of Space | 1957 |
| Shock! | 1961 |
| Shock II | 1964 |
| Shock III | 1966 |
| Shock Waves / Shock 4 | 1970 |
| Richard Matheson: Collected Stories | 1989 |
| By the Gun | 1993 |
| Nightmare at 20,000 Feet | 2002 |
| Off Beat: Uncollected Stories | 2002 |
| Duel: Terror Stories by Richard Matheson | 2003 |
| Darker Places | 2004 |
| Bloodlines | 2006 |
| Button, Button: Uncanny Stories / The Box | 2008 |
| Matheson Uncollected: Volume One | 2008 |
| Matheson Uncollected: Volume Two | 2010 |
| Steel and Other Stories | 2011 |
| Backteria and Other Improbable Tales | 2011 |
| The Best of Richard Matheson | 2017 |
Publication Order of Children’s Books
| Abu and the 7 Marvels | 2002 |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Path | 1993 |
| Mediums Rare | 2000 |
| A Primer of Reality | 2002 |
About Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson (1926 to 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter who worked mainly in horror, fantasy and science fiction. He is best known for “I Am Legend” (1954), a vampire novel that has been filmed three times, and for novels and stories behind films such as “The Incredible Shrinking Man”, “Duel” and “Somewhere in Time”.
Matheson was born in Allendale, New Jersey, on 20 February 1926 to Norwegian immigrant parents and was raised in Brooklyn by his mother after they divorced. He served with the US Army in Europe during the Second World War, an experience he later used for his 1960 novel “The Beardless Warriors”, and took a journalism degree at the University of Missouri in 1949 before moving to California.
His short story “Born of Man and Woman”, the diary of a monstrous child kept chained in a cellar, appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1950 and drew immediate attention. His first published novel was “Someone Is Bleeding” (1953). “I Am Legend” followed a year later, and he wrote the screenplay when “The Shrinking Man” (1956) was filmed in 1957.
Much of his career was spent writing for the screen. He wrote 16 episodes of The Twilight Zone, including “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”, adapted Edgar Allan Poe stories for Roger Corman, and turned his own short story “Duel” into the 1971 television film directed by Steven Spielberg. His teleplay for The Night Stalker won an Edgar Award. “Hell House” (1971) became the film The Legend of Hell House, “Bid Time Return” (1975) became Somewhere in Time, and both “What Dreams May Come” and “A Stir of Echoes” were filmed in the late 1990s.
In the 1990s he turned to Westerns, winning the Spur Award for “Journal of the Gun Years”. Several novels written much earlier, among them “Hunger and Thirst”, were first published late in his life, alongside new work such as “Hunted Past Reason” (2002) and “Other Kingdoms” (2011).
Matheson received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1984 and the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1991, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010. Stephen King has named him as an influence. He died at his home in Calabasas, California, on 23 June 2013, aged 87.
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