Richard Matheson

Richard Matheson

Richard Matheson was born in Allendale, New Jersey, USA on February 20th, 1926 and passed away at the age of 87 on June 23rd, 2013.

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Richard Matheson Stats: The highest rated book by Richard Matheson on Book Notification is Nightmare At 20,000 Feet, a Collection. The second-highest rated book is I Am Legend / The Omega Man, a Standalone novel.

The most read book by Richard Matheson on Book Notification is I Am Legend / The Omega Man, a Standalone novel. The second most read book is Hell House, a Standalone novel.

Below is a complete list of Richard Matheson books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Someone is Bleeding
1953
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2
Fury on Sunday
1953
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3
Woman / Third from the Sun / Born of Man
1954
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4
8
I Am Legend / The Omega Man
1954
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5
The Incredible Shrinking Man / The Shrinking Man
1956
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6
6
A Stir of Echoes
1958
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7
Ride the Nightmare
1959
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8
The Beardless Warriors of World War II
1960
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9
Comedy of Terrors
1964
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10
7.8
Hell House
1971
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11
The Night Stalker
1973
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12
The Night Strangler
1974
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13
8
Somewhere In Time / Bid Time Return
1975
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14
9
What Dreams May Come
1978
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15
6
Earthbound
1982
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16
Journal of the Gun Years
1991
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17
8
The Gun Fight
1993
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18
7 Steps to Midnight
1993
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19
Shadow on the Sun
1994
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20
Now You See It...
1995
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21
The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok
1996
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22
Passion Play
2000
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23
Hunger and Thirst
2000
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24
8
Camp Pleasant
2001
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25
Hunted Past Reason
2002
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26
Abu and the 7 Marvels (With: William Stout)
2002
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27
Come Fygures, Come Shadowes
2003
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28
The Link
2006
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29
6
Other Kingdoms
2011
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30
Generations
2012
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31
Leave Yesterday Alone
2013
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List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Through Channels
1951
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2
Long Distance Call
1951
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3
Dress of White Silk
1951
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4
Witch War
1951
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5
Blood Son / Drink My Blood / Drink My Red Blood
1951
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6
Slaughter House
1953
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7
Wet Straw
1953
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8
Disappearing Act
1953
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9
Legion of Plotters
1953
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10
Mad House
1953
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11
Dance of the Dead
1954
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12
Old Haunts
1957
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13
The Children of Noah
1957
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14
The Holiday Man
1957
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15
4
The Distributor
1958
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16
First Anniversary
1960
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17
The Likeness of Julie
1962
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18
Pride (With: Richard Christian Matheson)
2002
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List of Short Story Collections in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Born Of Man And Woman
1954
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2
Third From The Sun: Tales Of Science Fiction And Fantasy
1954
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3
The Shores Of Space
1957
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4
8.7
Nightmare At 20,000 Feet
1961
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5
Shock!: Thirteen Tales To Thrill And Terrify
1961
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6
Shock Ii: Thirteen Tales To Haunt The Imagination
1964
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7
Shock Iii
1966
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8
Shock Waves
1970
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9
Duel
1971
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10
Collected Stories, Vol. 1
1989
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11
By The Gun
1994
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12
The Twilight Zone Scripts
1998
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13
Kolchak Scripts
2003
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14
Darker Places
2004
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15
Collected Stories, Vol. 2
2005
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16
Collected Stories, Vol. 3
2005
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17
Unrealized Dreams
2005
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18
Bloodlines
2006
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19
8
Button, Button: Uncanny Stories
2007
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20
Visions Of Death: Richard Matheson's Edgar Allan Poe Scripts, Vol. 1
2007
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21
The Box
2008
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22
Visions Deferred
2009
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23
Richard Matheson Uncollected: Backteria And Other Improbable Tales
2011
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24
8
Steel And Other Stories
2011
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25
7
Road Rage (With: Stephen King, Joe Hill, Chris Ryall)
2012
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26
The Best Of Richard Matheson
2017
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27
Off Beat: Uncollected Stories
2020
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List of Graphic Novels in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Completely Doomed
2007
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List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Path
1993
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2
Mediums Rare
2000
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3
A Primer of Reality
2002
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4
The Richard Matheson Companion
2007
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List of Foundations of Fear Anthology Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
An Exploration of Horror: Foundations of Fear (With: George R.R. Martin, Robert A. Heinlein, David G. Hartwell, Peter Straub, Daphne du Maurier, Clive Barker, Carlos Fuentes, Arthur Machen, Gerald Durrell)
1992
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2
Foundations of Fear: Volume I: Shadows of Fear (By: Robert A. Heinlein, David G. Hartwell, Peter Straub, H.P. Lovecraft, Daphne du Maurier, Arthur Machen, Jean Ray, Harriet Prescott Spofford)
1994
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3
Foundations of Fear: Volume II: Worlds of Fear (By: George R.R. Martin, David G. Hartwell, Thomas Hardy, Gertrude Atherton, Thomas M. Disch, Elizabeth Engstrom, Carlos Fuentes)
1994
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4
Foundations of Fear: Volume III: Visions of Fear (With: David G. Hartwell, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Philip K. Dick, Clive Barker, Octavia E. Butler, Gerald Durrell)
1994
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List of The Dark Descent Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Dark Descent: Volume I: The Color of Evil (By: Stephen King, Robert Bloch, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, David G. Hartwell, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, E. Nesbit, Charles L. Grant, H.P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Nathaniel Hawthorne, M.R. James, Karl Edward Wagner, Manly Wade Wellman, Russell Kirk, John Collier, Robert Aickman, Lucy Clifford, Michael Shea)
1987
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2
The Dark Descent: Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield (With: Stephen King, Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, Theodore Sturgeon, David G. Hartwell, Tanith Lee, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Michael Bishop, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, H.P. Lovecraft, Joanna Russ, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D.H. Lawrence, Dennis Etchison, Thomas M. Disch, Clive Barker, Robert Aickman, Robert Hichens, Edgar Allen Poe)
1990
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3
The Dark Descent: Volume III: A Fabulous, Formless Darkness (By: Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, David G. Hartwell, Algernon Blackwood, Edith Wharton, Thomas M. Disch, Robert Aickman)
1991
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List of Richard Matheson Anthologies in Publication Order

#ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1953
1953
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2
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3 - F-675
1954
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3
Star Science Fiction Stories 3
1955
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4
Best of Science Fiction: No. 10
1964
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5
If This Goes On
1965
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6
Fantastic Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine, January 1967
1967
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7
Space Suits & Gumshoes
1972
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8
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 5
1972
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9
The Devil's Generation
1973
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10
Great Black Magic Stories
1974
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11
Rod Serling's Other Worlds
1978
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12
65 Great Spine Chillers
1982
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13
6
Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor
1982
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14
Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction
1985
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15
The Dark Descent: Volume I: The Color of Evil
1987
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16
Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader
1987
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17
Duel — Horror Stories of the Road
1987
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18
The Monster Book of Monsters
1988
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19
The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
1988
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20
Weird Tales
1988
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21
Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror
1989
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22
Second Annual Collection
1989
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23
The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams
1990
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24
The Dark Descent: Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield
1990
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25
The Dark Descent: Volume III: A Fabulous, Formless Darkness
1991
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26
An Exploration of Horror: Foundations of Fear
1992
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27
Foundations of Fear: Volume I: Shadows of Fear
1994
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28
Foundations of Fear: Volume II: Worlds of Fear
1994
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29
Foundations of Fear: Volume III: Visions of Fear
1994
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30
Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master
1995
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31
American Pulp
1997
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32
The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings
1998
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33
Taps and Sighs
2000
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34
Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters
2002
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35
Kiss the Whip
2005
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36
Masques V
2006
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37
The Best of Cemetery Dance II
2008
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38
The Dead That Walk
2009
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39
Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead
2011
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40
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror
2012
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41
6
The Time Traveler's Almanac
2013
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42
7.2
Flight or Fright
2018
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Richard Matheson

Richard Matheson (Richard Burton Matheson) was born on February 20th, 1926. Richard passed away June 23rd, 2013 at 87 years old. Richard Matheson was born in Allendale, New Jersey, USA.

Richard Matheson is probably best known for his Standalone Novels. There are currently 31 novels available. The first standalone was released in 1953 with the novel Someone is Bleeding. The most recently released novel was Leave Yesterday Alone which was released in 2013.

Richard Matheson also wrote the Short Story Collections series which has 27 books including Born Of Man And Woman and Third From The Sun: Tales Of Science Fiction And Fantasy.

Richard Matheson has made the Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! list in Japan one time. It was for Now You See It.. in 2007. It was tied for #7 on the list, alongside The Narrows by Michael Connelly.

Mirroring the Kono Mystery ga Sugoi! list, Matheson's novel Now You See It.. was also ranked #7 on the 2007 Honkaku Mystery Best 10 list.

Richard Matheson: Awards & Accolades

Richard Matheson has won multiple awards including: The World Fantasy Award, Life Achievement, in 1984 and the Bram Stoker Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, in 1990. Richard Matheson was also nominated for the British Fantasy Award, The Karl Edward Wagner Award (Important Contribution), in 1996.

Matheson's books have also won multiple awards, Somewhere In Time / Bid Time Return won the World Fantasy Award, Novel, in 1976. Collected Stories, Vol. 1 won the Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection, in 1989 as well as the World Fantasy Award - Collection in 1990. Second Annual Collection won the World Fantasy Award, Anthology, in 1990. Journal of the Gun Years won the Spur Awards, Western Novel, in 1991.

Richard Matheson books have also been nominated for multiple awards, Abu and the 7 Marvels was nominated for the Bram Stoker Awards, Superior Achievement in Work for Young Readers, in 2002. Flight or Fright was nominated for the Goodreads Awards, Best Horror, in 2018.

Related Authors

The most common authors followed by users who also follow Richard Matheson are:

  1. Stephen King, author of The Dark Tower Series.
  2. Neil Gaiman, author of the American Gods Series.
  3. Ray Bradbury, author of the novel: Fahrenheit 451.
  4. J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter Series.
  5. J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings Series.

Richard Matheson: F.A.Q

When was Richard Matheson Born?

Richard Matheson was born on February 20th, 1926.

When did Richard Matheson die?

Richard Matheson died on June 23rd, 2013 at 87 years old.

Where was Richard Matheson Born?

Richard Matheson was born in Allendale, New Jersey, USA.

What awards has Richard Matheson won?

Richard Matheson has won the following awards: Life Achievement at the World Fantasy Award (1984) and the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Bram Stoker Awards (1990).

What book awards has Richard Matheson won?

Somewhere In Time / Bid Time Return: World Fantasy Award Novel (1976).
Collected Stories, Vol. 1: Bram Stoker Awards Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (1989), World Fantasy Award Collection (1990).
Second Annual Collection: World Fantasy Award Anthology (1990).
Journal of the Gun Years: Spur Awards Western Novel (1991).

What was the first book Richard Matheson wrote?

The first book written by Richard Matheson was Through Channels, published in 1951.

What was the most recent book Richard Matheson wrote?

His most recently released work was Off Beat: Uncollected Stories on November 19th, 2020.

How many books has Richard Matheson written?

Richard Matheson has written 81 books excluding contributions to anthologies. 31 Standalone Novels, 18 Short Stories/Novellas, 27 books in the Short Story Collections, 1 book in the Graphic Novels, 4 books in the Non-Fiction Books.

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