Collection. "The Faces," "Graveyard Shift") (1960), "First Anniversary" (1960); adapted as an, "The Likeness of Julie" (as Logan Swanson) (1962); adapted into "Julie" in the 1975 TV film, "Needle in the Heart" (a.k.a. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and I Am … L’Homme qui rétrécit Richard Burton Matheson, né le 20 février 1926 à Allendale au New Jersey et mort le 23 juin 2013 (à 87 ans) à Calabasas en Californie, est un écrivain et scénariste américain. 0,09 Kg. Duel was derived from an incident in which he and a friend, Jerry Sohl, were dangerously tailgated by a large truck on the same day as the assassination of John F. He co-created, co-executive produced and co-wrote all thirteen episodes of the Cinemax series Chemistry. Ses genres de prédilection sont la science-fiction et l’ épouvante. [1] After returning home, he attended the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949. [12][13], At the annual World Fantasy Conventions he won two judged, annual literary awards for particular works: World Fantasy Awards for Bid Time Return as the best novel of 1975 and Richard Matheson: Collected Stories as the best collection of 1989. In 1973, Matheson earned an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for his teleplay for The Night Stalker, one of two TV movies written by Matheson and directed by Dan Curtis (the other was The Night Strangler that preceded the series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. He is best known as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 science fiction horror vampire novel that has been adapted for the screen four times, as well as the movie Somewhere In Time for which Matheson wrote the screenplay, based on his novel Bid Time Return. [3] In 1960, Matheson published The Beardless Warriors, a non-fantastic, autobiographical novel about teenage American soldiers in World War II. Trivia from The Twilight Zone. Some tales, such as "The Doll that Does Everything" (1954) and "The Funeral" (1955) incorporate zany satirical humour at the expense of genre clichés, and are written in an hysterically overblown prose very different from Matheson's usual pared-down style. In 1952, Matheson married Ruth Ann Woodson, whom he met in California. This file is licensed unner the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. The story was also adapted as a comic book mini-series, Richard Matheson's Hell House, written by Ian Edginton, with art by Simon Fraser. Matheson also wrote comedy and drama pilots for major studios and networks. Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. In 1999, Matheson published a non-fiction work The Path, inspired by his interest in psychic phenomena.[2]. He also wrote several movies—the offbeat comedy and box-office flop Loose Cannons, the biopic The Dreamer of Oz (about L. Frank Baum), a segment of Rod Serling's Lost Classics, and Trilogy of Terror II. La nouvelle paraît pour la première fois dans le magazine Playboy en juin 1970.. Publications en France. Richard Christian Matheson (born October 14, 1953) is an American writer of horror fiction and screenplays, the son of fiction writer and screenwriter Richard Matheson. Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) or Logan Swanson was an American author and screenwriter. 0,0960kg. Poids. Richard Matheson, Writer: The Incredible Shrinking Man. RIP. (2011). In the 1980s Matheson published the novel Earthbound, wrote several screenplays for the TV series Amazing Stories, and continued to publish short fiction. For the writer of "I Am Legend", "Hell House", and "What Dreams May Come", see, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Christian_Matheson&oldid=989233061, 20th-century American short story writers, BLP articles lacking sources from November 2019, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, Science fiction, fantasy, horror, film, television, This page was last edited on 17 November 2020, at 20:21. Étonnants classiques. Format. "Duel" was adapted into the 1971 TV movie of the same name. They had four children. References Matheson died on June 23, 2013 at his home in Los Angeles, California, aged 87. Richard Christian Matheson. Richard Burton Matheson fans. He also wrote new works, such as the suspense novel Hunted Past Reason (2002). Matheson also wrote 16 television episodes of The Twilight Zone for Rod Serling, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Steel". He adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" as a screenplay directed by a young Steven Spielberg, for the television film of the same name that year. Elle contient aussi un script de cinéma (Bobby) et une profession de foi de Matheson (Ce que je crois). Matheson wrote the screenplay. "Sorry, Right Number") (1953), "Mother by Protest" (a.k.a. "... the things Serling said at the beginning and the end, in the wraparounds, which I wrote. Stephen King has listed Matheson as a creative influence and his novel Cell is dedicated to Matheson, along with filmmaker George A. Romero. Matheson also adapted the short story which was made into an iconic episode of the TNT series Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King and won two Emmys. "[20], For the writer of "Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks", "Dystopia", and "Created By", see, Films (for TV movies see Television below), Alexander, Chris (March 2011).