Richard Matheson (1926-2013) was born in New Jersey and started
living and working in California in 1951. In addition to novels in
the mystery, science fiction, horror, fantasy, and western fields,
he wrote many film and television scripts, including "Nightmare at
20,000 Feet" from The Twilight Zone. He also wrote episodes of Have
Gun, Will Travel, Night Gallery, and Star Trek. Several of his
novels and stories have been made into movies, including The
Shrinking Man, I Am Legend, and What Dreams May Come (starring
Robin Williams). Over the course of his career he won the World
Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award, the Bram Stoker Award for Life
Achievement, the Hugo Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Golden
Spur Award, and the Writer's Guild Award.
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Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for
major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film
of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers
Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America
Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the
2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution
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"His stories...still have the power to shock or to satisfy with
their graceful inevitability. Matheson is not primarily a monster
writer: rather, he examines how we create monsters from our own
fears and frailties...Nightmare at 20,000 Feet is a must-have
collection for...readers who like their horror spare, precise, and
chilling."-- "Amazon.com, editorial review"
"There are plenty of good frights to be had herein."--
"Booklist"
"Matheson has a diabolically clever way of turning everyday common
and seemingly harmless people and things into objects of
terror...All of the readers are scarily excellent, seriously
menacing and top-notch fright-meisters."--
"SoundCommentary.com"
"The well-known title tale about a nervous air traveler is a
showcase for the author's trademark less-is-more prose style, which
suspensefully delineates a psychological tug-of-war between man and
a monster that may be purely imagined. Timeless in their
simplicity, [Matheson's] stories are also relentless in their
approach to basic fears."-- "Publishers Weekly"
"Matheson has a diabolically clever way of turning everyday common and seemingly harmless people and things into objects of terror...All of the readers are scarily excellent, seriously menacing and top-notch fright-meisters."
-- "SoundCommentary.com""The well-known title tale about a nervous air traveler is a showcase for the author's trademark less-is-more prose style, which suspensefully delineates a psychological tug-of-war between man and a monster that may be purely imagined. Timeless in their simplicity, [Matheson's] stories are also relentless in their approach to basic fears."
-- "Publishers Weekly"His stories...still have the power to shock or to satisfy with their graceful inevitability. Matheson is not primarily a monster writer: rather, he examines how we create monsters from our own fears and frailties...Nightmare at 20,000 Feet is a must-have collection for...readers who like their horror spare, precise, and chilling.
-- "Amazon.com, editorial review"There are plenty of good frights to be had herein.
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