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Fiction.
Horror.
Science Fiction.
Short Stories.
HTML:An essential collection of rare tales of terror from the multi-award-winning Twilight Zone scripter and I Am Legend author??only available in ebook format. A researcher encounters an exotic new strain of ??Backteria? that causes the infected person to vanish??leading the doctor on a path of discovery deep into a past he should have left buried. A simple ??Haircut? that starts off as a routine trim becomes a dark and terrifying experience when a barber is confronted with a sick customer who seems otherworldly. A case of mistaken identity leads to a darkly farcical story of marriage, murder, and a love that knows no bounds in ??Getting Together.? Backteria & Other Improbable Tales gathers these and sixteen more uncanny short stories from master storyteller Richard Matheson, ??one of the great names in American terror fiction? (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Stories include: ??Backteria?, ??He Wanted to Live?, ??Life Size?, ??Man with a Club?, ??Professor Fritz and the Runaway House?, ??Purge Among Peanuts?, ??The Prisoner?, ??The Last Blah in the ETC?, ??Counterfeit Bills?, ??1984 ½?, ??Pride?, ??Now Die In It?, ??Leo Rising?, ??Where There??s a Will? (written with Richard Christian Matheson), ??Getting Together?, ??Person to Person?, ??CU: Mannix?, ??Haircut?, ??An Element Never Forgets? ??The author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson.? ??Stephen King ??Perhaps no other living author is as responsible for chilling a generation with tantalizing nightmare visions.? ??The New York Times ??Matheson??s a writer who No library descriptions found. |
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