Book Description
Horror.
Hell House
Author : Richard Matheson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Haunted houses
ISBN : 9780727860996
Hell House
Author : Richard Matheson
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 25,50 MB
Release : 1999-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312868857
Book Description
Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newpaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death. Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been abandoned and sealed since 1949 after a decade of drug addiction, alcoholism, and debauchery. For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townfolks refer to it as the Hell House.
The Cultural Gutter
Author : Carol Borden
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 0557958393
Book Description
Science fiction, fantasy, comics, romance, genre movies, games all drain into the Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful articles about disreputable art-media and genres that are a little embarrassing. Irredeemable. Worthy of Note, but rolling like errant pennies back into the gutter. The Cultural Gutter is dangerous because we have a philosophy. We try to balance enthusiasm with clear-eyed, honest engagement with the material and with our readers. This book expands on our mission with 10 articles each from science fiction/fantasy editor James Schellenberg, comics editor and publisher Carol Borden, romance editor Chris Szego, screen editor Ian Driscoll and founding editor and former games editor Jim Munroe.
Richard Matheson's Hell House
Author : Richard Matheson
Publisher : IDW Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,10 MB
Release : 2008-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781600102639
Book Description
IDW brings you this lavishly illustrated adaptation of Richard Matheson's tale of newspaper publisher Rudolph Deutsch facing his impending demise. To help Deutsch forestall his death and to learn the secrets of life after death, a team of experts must survive a night in Belasco House, a place known amongst the local townsfolk as "Hell House." The notorious Belasco House starts to exert its dark influence on the group of scientists and spiritualists as they unearth the perverse and wretched secrets from within its walls. Hell House has let them in... but will it ever let them leave?
The Best of Richard Matheson
Author : Richard Matheson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101993669
Book Description
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.
A Stir of Echoes
Author : Richard Matheson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429913711
Book Description
This eerie ghost story, from Richard Matheson, the award-winning author of Hell House and I Am Legend, inspired the acclaimed 1999 film starring Kevin Bacon. Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now he's hearing the private thoughts of the people around him-and learning shocking secrets he never wanted to know. But as Tom's existence becomes a waking nightmare, even greater jolts are in store as he becomes the unwilling recipient of a compelling message from beyond the grave! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
7 Steps to Midnight
Author : Richard Matheson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2003-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765308375
Book Description
When a mysterious impostor steals his identity and life, mathematician Chris Barton is thrust into a whirlwind of danger. Full of twists and surprises, this is the story of an ordinary man driven to the breaking point in a game where there are no rules, nothing it as it seems, and it is always "7 Steps to Midnight."
Hunted Past Reason
Author : Richard Matheson
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429955732
Book Description
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.
Excitable Boys
Author : Rain Graves
Publisher : Night Shade Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2002-04
Category : Horror tales
ISBN : 9780970009715
Book Description
An original anthology inspired by the annual World Horror Convention Gross Out Contents, featuring some of its most audacious winners and runners up. Edited by Kelly Laymon, and featuring cover and interior artwork by GAK! Contents: * Introduction: Take a Tour Through the Sewer - Kelly Laymon * Good Care - Rain Graves * The Constipated Cannibal - Michael McCarty * The McCrath Model SS40-C, Series S - Ed Lee * Full of It - Brian Keene * Attack of the Fifty-Foot Prison Bitch - Mark McLaughlin * A Heartful of Love, A Bowelful of Hate - Gavin Williams * Genital Grinder: A Snuff Film in Five Acts - Ryan Harding * Afterword: Just Like Chicken - Geoff Cooper
Reading Richard Matheson
Author : Cheyenne Mathews
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442234660
Book Description
Richard Matheson (1926–2013) was a prolific author and screenwriter whose career helped shape the horror and fantasy genres in literature, film, and television for over sixty years. Matheson authored more than ninety short stories and dozens of novels, many of which—including I Am Legend, A Stir of Echoes, What Dreams May Come, The Shrinking Man, Hell House, and Bid Time Return—have been adapted into feature films. Despite his extensive body of work and influence, however, Matheson has remained largely outside the scope of academic scrutiny. The essays in Reading Richard Matheson: A Critical Survey provide the first critical overview of Matheson’s texts, covering seven of Matheson’s novels, a sampling of short stories, and several adaptations for both film and television. The essays are arranged thematically and address the sociopolitical anxieties reflected in Matheson’s oeuvre; consider his precursors and successors; and situate him within narrative traditions of mythology, cinema, genre, and memory studies. By providing an overview of his career, Reading Richard Matheson illustrates how a commercial writer can contribute to academic discourses of literature and film. Though the essays use a variety of theoretical frameworks, the crossover nature of the collection reflects the broad range of Matheson’s output. As such, this volume will appeal to fans of Matheson’s work in general as well as scholars of literature, film studies, cultural studies, genre studies, media studies, memory studies, and popular culture.
