I Am Legend

From out of the night come the living dead with a single purpose: to destroy Robert Neville, the last man on earth.

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Two film versions of I Am Legend have already been made, including The Last Man on Earth, a low-budget Italian picture starring Vincent Price, and The Omega Man, a 1971 Warner Bros. release that featured Charlton Heston in the title role.

Richard Matheson is The New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It . . . , and What Dreams May Come. A Grand Master of Horror and past winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, he has also won the Edgar, the Hugo, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards.

He lives in Calabasas, California.