This does nothing to take in the extraordinary short fiction that inspired some of those shows and flicks, like “Duel” and “The Distributor.” The man was a storytelling machine. The man also made some of the great Twilight Zone episodes like “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.” He penned original motion pictures, including some of the Poe films for Corman. His touch can be felt in numerous made of television properties such as Dead of Night (1977), Dan Curtis’ Dracula (1974), Trilogy of Terror (1975), and both The Night Stalker (1972) and The Night Strangler (1973). Likewise Stir of Echoes or What Dreams May Come. Likewise, The Shrinking Man (which often has Incredible added to its title between the first two words). I Am Legend has been made into several motion pictures, and I am sure there will be further attempts to capture its magic. Still, it fueled nightmares back then, and it continues to do so. His legacy is secured, though at the end of his life he seemed to regret some of the darker material he wrote. He has famously influenced quite a few creators, including the two blockbusters Stephens: King and Spielberg. Nolan, Charles Beaumont and others, he dabbled in all kinds of genre fiction and left behind dozens of bonafide masterpieces, a ton of interesting material, and quite a few screenplays for works that lodged firmly in the public consciousness. A part of the California writers that included such luminaries as Ray Bradbury, William F. Richard Matheson is one of those authors whose reach is quite long indeed. My World, My Rules:… on Relics, Rituals, and Revenge:… My World, My Rules:… on Do As Thou Vril: Catherine Cav…

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Hell House, which inspired the 1973 film The Legend of Hell House, is Matheson's most frightening and shocking book, and an acknowledged classic of the genre. For one night, they will investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townfolks refer to it as the Hell House. A wealthy publisher, brooding over his impending death, has paid a physicist and two mediums to establish the facts of life after death once and for all. But now, a new investigation has been launched, bringing four strangers to Belasco House in search of the ultimate secrets of life and death.

All previous attempts to probe its mysteries have ended in murder, suicide, or insanity. Everest of haunted houses, its shadowed walls have witnessed scenes of unimaginable horror and depravity. For over twenty years, Belasco House has stood empty.

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