Thom reviewed I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
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4 stars
Read in November 2007
Richard Matheson: I am legend. (1970, Walker)
122 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 1970 by Walker.
I Am Legend is a 1954 post-apocalyptic horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson that was influential in the modern development of zombie and vampire literature and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease. The novel was a success and was adapted into the films The Last Man on Earth (1964), The Omega Man (1971), and I Am Legend (2007). It was also an inspiration behind Night of the Living Dead (1968).
Read in November 2007