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Editorial Reviews
JG Faherty, Dark Scribe Magazine
Let's start off with the most important thing you need to know about this book: it contains a never-before-seen novel (actually, more of a novella) by Richard Matheson. If you're a fan of Matheson, that's all I have to say, and you'll be ordering the book before you reach the next paragraph.
Let's start off with the most important thing you need to know about this book: it contains a never-before-seen novel (actually, more of a novella) by Richard Matheson. If you're a fan of Matheson, that's all I have to say, and you'll be ordering the book before you reach the next paragraph.
That being said, and assuming you're back to finish this review, let's get to the rest of the book.
The Richard Matheson Companion is a book for fans, as we've said, but also for those of us who like to know more about a writer than just the names of his stories and novels. You know the type; they're the ones who buy the various Stephen King companions, or The Science of the X-Files, or all those books that discuss the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They purchase old scripts. They're the historians of the genre. Sometimes we can't understand how people can get so immersed in something, and then we take a look around and realize a scary fact:
They are us.
All of us have a subject or a person we want to know more about - everything about. That being said, Richard Matheson was not on my list. I've always enjoyed his stories and novels. Like many of the writers who contributed recollections and tributes to this book, I'm of that age where I first heard about him from his movies - for me they were The Incredible Shrinking Man and The Omega Man. When my father told me they were based on books, I had to go to the library and read them.
Then, when I found out he'd written Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, one of my all-time favorite Twilight Zone episodes, I went back to the library and tried to find everything by Matheson that they had. That included Hell House, another great one.
But for me, the name Matheson will always be associated with TV and movies, because he wrote screenplays that I drooled over in my formative years: the two Night Stalker TV movies; Die! Die! My Darling!, Stir of Echoes, Duel, and "Prey" (from Trilogy of Terror).
All in all, I thought I was pretty `up' on Richard Matheson, until I read The Richard Matheson Co