Richard Matheson on Screen

<p> Though innumerable biographies have been written about novelists playwrights and poets screenwriters are rarely granted this distinction even ones as prolific and successful as Richard Matheson. He has occupied a unique position in cinema as the writer or original author of films from <I>The Incredible Shrinking Man</I> in 1957 through <I>I Am Legend</I> in 2007. This book documents his rise to prominence parallel literary career and role in the horror and science fiction renaissance. In chronological order the exhaustively indexed narrative examines each film written by Matheson or based on his work with sections devoted to episodic television (including <I>The Twilight Zone</I>) and unproduced projects.</p>