Yesterday, we learned that the great Richard Matheson, who helped bring an amazing maturity and cleverness to fabulist storytelling, had passed away. His longtime editor, Greg Cox, shared with us some ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Richard Matheson, the prolific sci-fi and fantasy writer whose "I Am Legend" and "The Shrinking Man" were transformed into films, has died. He was 87. A spokesman for the Academy ...

The closing American frontier comes to grips with the encroaching forces of civilization in this compelling and historically accurate anthology by the author of Journal of the Gun Years. Central to ...

Writer Richard Matheson, celebrated for writing classic sci-fi/horror novels such as I Am Legend and providing iconic moments of TV and film, has passed away at the age of 87. The Twilight Zone scribe ...

There’s few authors who have been as influential as Richard Matheson — and yet, unless you’re a hardcore fan of science fiction/fantasy/horror, you might not know his name. Yet the author and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Romero’s totemic film influenced all that came next, but it’s important to acknowledge the source text. To better understand how ...

At its annual awards ceremony on Wednesday, June 26, the Saturn Awards will honor late writer Richard Matheson, who died Sunday at the age of 87. We cannot think of a more fitting place for the man ...

Sci-fi, fantasy and horror novelist and screenwriter Richard Matheson, who paved the way for the likes of Stephen King, has died. Tor.com—a site associated with Matheson publisher MacMillan—explained ...

Richard Matheson's Kolchak Scripts, edited by Mark Dawidziak, collects the veteran horror writer's scripts for the 1970s cult TV show, Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Dawidziak provides an introduction, ...

Richard Matheson's horror stories are often considered some of the best ever, with his works often cited as inspirations by other writers like Stephen King. Several of Matheson's books have been ...

When The Box opens this weekend, devotees of Donnie Darko mastermind Richard Kelly will line up to buy tickets along with longtime fans of author Richard Matheson. In the film a couple is given a box ...