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Shock #2
Shock - Seconda Parte
Nota: seconda parte di "Shock", la prima è in "Shock - Prima parte"
In questo volume, che completa la seria Shock, Matheson ha raccolto il meglio della sua produzione di fantascienza e fantasy, con pochissime eccezioni (ad esempio, i testi contenuti nella raccolta Regola per sopravvivere che abbiamo già presentato a suo tempo nei "Classici Fantascienza"). Oltre venti "visioni" sul mondo del futuro e dell'ignoto, dove l'imprevisto conduce inevitabilmente allo shock; oltre venti finestre spalancate sulle fulminanti invenzioni da cui sono stati tratti alcuni dei più bei film americani - come quelli spregiudicati di Dan Curtis - e numerosi episodi della serie televisiva Ai confini della realtà, di cui Matheson è stato uno dei massimi autori.
Indice:
La ragazza dei miei sogni (Girl of My Dreams, 1963)
La stagione delle pappemolle (Tis the Seanson To Be Jelly ,1963)
Ritorno (Return, 1951)
La macchina del Jazz (The Jazz Machine, 1963)
I diseredati (The Disinheritors, 1952)
Slaughter house (Slaughter House,1953)
Vibrazione (Shock Wave,1963)
Quando chi è sveglio si addormenterà (When the Waker Sleeps, 1950)
Guerra stregata (Witch War, 1951)
Primo anniversario (First Anniversary, 1960)
Miss Stardust (Miss Stardust, 1955)
Il cerchio si chiude (Full Circle, 1953)
Incubo a 6000 metri (Nightmare a 20,000 Feet, 1951)
Una visita a babbo Natale (A Visit to Santa Claus, 1970)
Dita in movimento (Finger Prints, 1962)
Deus ex machina (Deus ex machina, 1963)
La cosa (The Thing, 1951)
Il conquistatore (The Conqueror, 1954)
Un sorso d'acqua (A Drink of Water, 1967)
Un uomo scomparso (Dying Room Only, 1953)
Commiato d'autore (Advance Notice, 1959)
Paglia umida (Wet Straw, 1953)
Therese (Therese, 1968)
Preda (Prey, 1969)
Venite ombre, venite simulacri (Come Fygures, Come Shadowes, 1970)
Tocco finale (The Finishing Touches, 1970)
Copertina di Franco Brambilla e Pierluigi Longo
In questo volume, che completa la seria Shock, Matheson ha raccolto il meglio della sua produzione di fantascienza e fantasy, con pochissime eccezioni (ad esempio, i testi contenuti nella raccolta Regola per sopravvivere che abbiamo già presentato a suo tempo nei "Classici Fantascienza"). Oltre venti "visioni" sul mondo del futuro e dell'ignoto, dove l'imprevisto conduce inevitabilmente allo shock; oltre venti finestre spalancate sulle fulminanti invenzioni da cui sono stati tratti alcuni dei più bei film americani - come quelli spregiudicati di Dan Curtis - e numerosi episodi della serie televisiva Ai confini della realtà, di cui Matheson è stato uno dei massimi autori.
Indice:
La ragazza dei miei sogni (Girl of My Dreams, 1963)
La stagione delle pappemolle (Tis the Seanson To Be Jelly ,1963)
Ritorno (Return, 1951)
La macchina del Jazz (The Jazz Machine, 1963)
I diseredati (The Disinheritors, 1952)
Slaughter house (Slaughter House,1953)
Vibrazione (Shock Wave,1963)
Quando chi è sveglio si addormenterà (When the Waker Sleeps, 1950)
Guerra stregata (Witch War, 1951)
Primo anniversario (First Anniversary, 1960)
Miss Stardust (Miss Stardust, 1955)
Il cerchio si chiude (Full Circle, 1953)
Incubo a 6000 metri (Nightmare a 20,000 Feet, 1951)
Una visita a babbo Natale (A Visit to Santa Claus, 1970)
Dita in movimento (Finger Prints, 1962)
Deus ex machina (Deus ex machina, 1963)
La cosa (The Thing, 1951)
Il conquistatore (The Conqueror, 1954)
Un sorso d'acqua (A Drink of Water, 1967)
Un uomo scomparso (Dying Room Only, 1953)
Commiato d'autore (Advance Notice, 1959)
Paglia umida (Wet Straw, 1953)
Therese (Therese, 1968)
Preda (Prey, 1969)
Venite ombre, venite simulacri (Come Fygures, Come Shadowes, 1970)
Tocco finale (The Finishing Touches, 1970)
Copertina di Franco Brambilla e Pierluigi Longo
352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1964
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About the author
Richard Matheson
759 books4,757 followersBorn in Allendale, New Jersey to Norwegian immigrant parents, Matheson was raised in Brooklyn and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1943. He then entered the military and spent World War II as an infantry soldier. In 1949 he earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and moved to California in 1951. He married in 1952 and has four children, three of whom (Chris, Richard Christian, and Ali Matheson) are writers of fiction and screenplays.
His first short story, "Born of Man and Woman," appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1950. The tale of a monstrous child chained in its parents' cellar, it was told in the first person as the creature's diary (in poignantly non-idiomatic English) and immediately made Matheson famous. Between 1950 and 1971, Matheson produced dozens of stories, frequently blending elements of the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres.
Several of his stories, like "Third from the Sun" (1950), "Deadline" (1959) and "Button, Button" (1970) are simple sketches with twist endings; others, like "Trespass" (1953), "Being" (1954) and "Mute" (1962) explore their characters' dilemmas over twenty or thirty pages. Some tales, such as "The Funeral" (1955) and "The Doll that Does Everything" (1954) incorporate zany satirical humour at the expense of genre clichés, and are written in an hysterically overblown prose very different from Matheson's usual pared-down style. Others, like "The Test" (1954) and "Steel" (1956), portray the moral and physical struggles of ordinary people, rather than the then nearly ubiquitous scientists and superheroes, in situations which are at once futuristic and everyday. Still others, such as "Mad House" (1953), "The Curious Child" (1954) and perhaps most famously, "Duel" (1971) are tales of paranoia, in which the everyday environment of the present day becomes inexplicably alien or threatening.
He wrote a number of episodes for the American TV series The Twilight Zone, including "Steel," mentioned above and the famous "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"; adapted the works of Edgar Allan Poe for Roger Corman and Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out for Hammer Films; and scripted Steven Spielberg's first feature, the TV movie Duel, from his own short story. He also contributed a number of scripts to the Warner Brothers western series "The Lawman" between 1958 and 1962. In 1973, Matheson earned an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for his teleplay for The Night Stalker, one of two TV movies written by Matheson that preceded the series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Matheson also wrote the screenplay for Fanatic (US title: Die! Die! My Darling!) starring Talullah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers.
Novels include The Shrinking Man (filmed as The Incredible Shrinking Man, again from Matheson's own screenplay), and a science fiction vampire novel, I Am Legend, which has been filmed three times under the titles The Omega Man and The Last Man on Earth and once under the original title. Other Matheson novels turned into notable films include What Dreams May Come, Stir of Echoes, Bid Time Return (as Somewhere in Time), and Hell House (as The Legend of Hell House) and the aforementioned Duel, the last three adapted and scripted by Matheson himself. Three of his short stories were filmed together as Trilogy of Terror, including "Prey" with its famous Zuni warrior doll.
In 1960, Matheson published The Beardless Warriors, a nonfantastic, autobiographical novel about teenage American soldiers in World War II.
He died at his home on June 23, 2013, at the age of 87
http://us.macmillan.com/author/richar...
His first short story, "Born of Man and Woman," appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1950. The tale of a monstrous child chained in its parents' cellar, it was told in the first person as the creature's diary (in poignantly non-idiomatic English) and immediately made Matheson famous. Between 1950 and 1971, Matheson produced dozens of stories, frequently blending elements of the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres.
Several of his stories, like "Third from the Sun" (1950), "Deadline" (1959) and "Button, Button" (1970) are simple sketches with twist endings; others, like "Trespass" (1953), "Being" (1954) and "Mute" (1962) explore their characters' dilemmas over twenty or thirty pages. Some tales, such as "The Funeral" (1955) and "The Doll that Does Everything" (1954) incorporate zany satirical humour at the expense of genre clichés, and are written in an hysterically overblown prose very different from Matheson's usual pared-down style. Others, like "The Test" (1954) and "Steel" (1956), portray the moral and physical struggles of ordinary people, rather than the then nearly ubiquitous scientists and superheroes, in situations which are at once futuristic and everyday. Still others, such as "Mad House" (1953), "The Curious Child" (1954) and perhaps most famously, "Duel" (1971) are tales of paranoia, in which the everyday environment of the present day becomes inexplicably alien or threatening.
He wrote a number of episodes for the American TV series The Twilight Zone, including "Steel," mentioned above and the famous "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"; adapted the works of Edgar Allan Poe for Roger Corman and Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out for Hammer Films; and scripted Steven Spielberg's first feature, the TV movie Duel, from his own short story. He also contributed a number of scripts to the Warner Brothers western series "The Lawman" between 1958 and 1962. In 1973, Matheson earned an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for his teleplay for The Night Stalker, one of two TV movies written by Matheson that preceded the series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Matheson also wrote the screenplay for Fanatic (US title: Die! Die! My Darling!) starring Talullah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers.
Novels include The Shrinking Man (filmed as The Incredible Shrinking Man, again from Matheson's own screenplay), and a science fiction vampire novel, I Am Legend, which has been filmed three times under the titles The Omega Man and The Last Man on Earth and once under the original title. Other Matheson novels turned into notable films include What Dreams May Come, Stir of Echoes, Bid Time Return (as Somewhere in Time), and Hell House (as The Legend of Hell House) and the aforementioned Duel, the last three adapted and scripted by Matheson himself. Three of his short stories were filmed together as Trilogy of Terror, including "Prey" with its famous Zuni warrior doll.
In 1960, Matheson published The Beardless Warriors, a nonfantastic, autobiographical novel about teenage American soldiers in World War II.
He died at his home on June 23, 2013, at the age of 87
http://us.macmillan.com/author/richar...
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December 21, 2023
This second Shock title is a collection of thirteen stories that originally appeared from 1952-'62, roughly a third each from magazines in the mystery (Ed McBain's, Ellery Queen's), men's (Rogue, Playboy), and science fiction (If, Imagination, F&SF) genres. They're light and entertaining tails, but I didn't find any of them shocking. They're written in Matheson's familiar and comfortable slick and clever style, relying more on humor and twists than darkness or mayhem. Some of them have not aged well (for example, the title of the first story is A Flourish of Strumpets), but they're fun and easy entertainments. My favorites were No Such Thing as a Vampire and Mute.
May 1, 2012
Richard Matheson is a pillar within horror fiction. But unlike some of today's over-the-top horror writers (I will omit names, but you know of whom I speak), Matheson's approach to writing horror was a stripped down, psychological endeavor. His stories unnerved readers. His stories made readers think. Combine these two attributes--unnerving and thinking--and it is not a stretch to say that Matheson was successful because even when the reader was to "justify" a story within their mind, Matheson "rewired" the reader to experience a new way of thinking and deciphering and displaying the world. In this collection, SHOCK II does this in spades. From the opening story "A Flourish of Strumpets," a story about man's unquenchable desire of the flesh, to the story "No Such Things as a Vampire," a story that might be one of the best revenge stories I have ever read, Matheson takes the fantastic and embeds it into realistic settings.
But Matheson doesn't just look at the fantastic. In the story "Descent" Matheson takes a look at the status of the Cold War, and gives his own commentary about the subject. Normally, I would think a story like this would be outdated; this is not the case...I dare say that this story is more prescient today concerning nuclear annihilation (I'm looking at you North Korea) than when it was written. Additionally, Matheson has fun in his storytelling. Within this collection, there are pieces that are written in the format of a play ("The Man Who Made the World"), and as epistolary ("Graveyard Shift"); and these pieces lose none of their oomph because of these playful formats. That might be because Matheson was a genius with a pen. But I digress.
All things considered, Matheson makes storytelling fun, but he can also deliver a poignant, heartfelt story of family, and the travails of family, as the story "Lazarus II" depicts. When reading this story I was torn between hating the mother, and hating the fact that, as a parent, I sometimes have to remind myself that my children's lives are not my own, they are their's, period.
Thirteen tales. 192 pages. Read them as a whole, or devour them over a few weeks. Regardless how you enjoy these stories, I'm willing to bet that you'll find yourself looking for more of Richard Matheson the next time you decide to haunt your favorite bookshop or library.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
But Matheson doesn't just look at the fantastic. In the story "Descent" Matheson takes a look at the status of the Cold War, and gives his own commentary about the subject. Normally, I would think a story like this would be outdated; this is not the case...I dare say that this story is more prescient today concerning nuclear annihilation (I'm looking at you North Korea) than when it was written. Additionally, Matheson has fun in his storytelling. Within this collection, there are pieces that are written in the format of a play ("The Man Who Made the World"), and as epistolary ("Graveyard Shift"); and these pieces lose none of their oomph because of these playful formats. That might be because Matheson was a genius with a pen. But I digress.
All things considered, Matheson makes storytelling fun, but he can also deliver a poignant, heartfelt story of family, and the travails of family, as the story "Lazarus II" depicts. When reading this story I was torn between hating the mother, and hating the fact that, as a parent, I sometimes have to remind myself that my children's lives are not my own, they are their's, period.
Thirteen tales. 192 pages. Read them as a whole, or devour them over a few weeks. Regardless how you enjoy these stories, I'm willing to bet that you'll find yourself looking for more of Richard Matheson the next time you decide to haunt your favorite bookshop or library.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
September 16, 2025
Recopilación de relatos de terror y ciencia ficción de 180 páginas, publicado en 1964. Esta obra se compone de trece magníficos relatos. En "Intercambio", una serie de mujeres visitan cada noche la casa de nuestro protagonista para proponerle relaciones. Éste es casado y se niega, pero pronto descubrirá que les ocurre a todos los hombres del barrio. En el segundo relato nos encontramos en un futuro distópico en el que haces fotoeléctricos vigilan nuestro comportamiento. Está prohibido pensar, salvo en la plaza de los humanos, donde la gente acude a morir. En el tercero, viajamos a Transilvania, donde Alexis se despierta cada mañana con dos incisiones en el cuello. Su marido utiliza crucifijos, ajo, etc. Pero no consigue evitar al vampiro. En el cuarto relato faltan veinticuatro horas para que caigan las bombas nucleares, sin embargo, algunos prefieren no vivir dentro de los túneles bajo tierra el resto de sus vidas. Con una pluma ágil y atrapante, y tras disfrutar del primer tomo, he vuelto a viajar a mundos intrigantes y fantásticos de este gran maestro del terror y la ciencia ficción. De muy recomendada lectura para los amantes del género.
September 29, 2013
I got this short-story collection in my ebay lot when I had to pick up "I Am Legend" for my book club. Just got around to reading it.
I enjoyed the physical book itself... 1965 paperback marked "50 cents" – but in remarkably good condition. Sometimes old books are just fun!
The stories themselves, however, were a bit uneven, and some of them seemed rather dated and anti-climactic. Genre-wise, they're kind of in that twilight-zone area between horror and sci-fi.
Includes:
* A Flourish of Strumpets
* Brother to the Machine
* No Such Thing as a Vampire
* Descent
* Deadline
* The Man Who Made the World
* Graveyard Shift [ The Faces ]
* The Likeness of Julie [as by Logan Swanson]
* Lazarus II
* Big Surprise [ What Was in the Box? ]
* Crickets
* Mute
* From Shadowed Places
I enjoyed the physical book itself... 1965 paperback marked "50 cents" – but in remarkably good condition. Sometimes old books are just fun!
The stories themselves, however, were a bit uneven, and some of them seemed rather dated and anti-climactic. Genre-wise, they're kind of in that twilight-zone area between horror and sci-fi.
Includes:
* A Flourish of Strumpets
* Brother to the Machine
* No Such Thing as a Vampire
* Descent
* Deadline
* The Man Who Made the World
* Graveyard Shift [ The Faces ]
* The Likeness of Julie [as by Logan Swanson]
* Lazarus II
* Big Surprise [ What Was in the Box? ]
* Crickets
* Mute
* From Shadowed Places
June 12, 2012
A good collection of stories from the writer of 'I am Legend'. Relies more on clever twists than blood and gore, which makes it much more enjoyable.
July 28, 2015
A highly consistent collection of Matheson tales, dated, but worthy.
September 14, 2016
Twilight Zone-ish.
Mute is the longest and also the best in this collection
Mute is the longest and also the best in this collection
December 10, 2021
Another solid collection from Richard Matheson, collecting some good (and some better) stories. The book's most brightly shining story is, undoubtedly, "Mute". The tale of a young telepath's yanking from his home and all that he has known and being thrust into a world that is uncaring an noisy really hit home with me. How Matheson describes the boy's feelings and motives is simply stunning, and you can't help but feel for the character.
Other standouts were "Descending", about the end of the world, the feverish "Crickets," about a man who is convinced cicadas are trying to tell him things about the living and the dead. Sure, there are some silly entries ("A Flourish of Strumpets" comes to mind, as well as "Big Surprise," which was interesting in the way the ending of the story just hit you straight in the face, being equal parts silly and scary and yet making it work).
Some of these tales are clearly dated, but that's no fault of the author. Matheson knew how to spin a good yarn, and this volume, or its predecessor, are good starting points for people wanting to sample his stories.
Other standouts were "Descending", about the end of the world, the feverish "Crickets," about a man who is convinced cicadas are trying to tell him things about the living and the dead. Sure, there are some silly entries ("A Flourish of Strumpets" comes to mind, as well as "Big Surprise," which was interesting in the way the ending of the story just hit you straight in the face, being equal parts silly and scary and yet making it work).
Some of these tales are clearly dated, but that's no fault of the author. Matheson knew how to spin a good yarn, and this volume, or its predecessor, are good starting points for people wanting to sample his stories.
March 6, 2023
Sigo confirmando que los mejores relatos de este autor son los más breves posibles y que dejan una sensación contundente pero mucho a la imaginación del lectore. De esta entrega, me quedaría sin duda con Grillos o Fecha de Caducidad. Hay algún juego temático interesante como Fanfarria de Meretrices, que es más de tono cómico pero con un regusto bastante oscuro al golpear la realidad actual (de la época) de los personajes (en este caso sin ningún monstruo o fenómeno extraño, como sí pasa con El hombre que creó el mundo). La ciencia ficción sigue también presente, y Hermanos de las Máquinas puede ser una precursora total de Blade Runner, Descenso logra resonar aún en nuestros conflictivos días con el armamento nuclear siempre amenazando toda la vida humana y Lázaro II actualizó a su devastadora manera el Frankenstein de Mary Shelly.
Los dos relatos largos del final son los que más ensombrecen para mí esta entrega (siendo el más negativo el que más mal ha envejecido con el apunte de carácter más negativo o estrafalario de otra cultura).
Los dos relatos largos del final son los que más ensombrecen para mí esta entrega (siendo el más negativo el que más mal ha envejecido con el apunte de carácter más negativo o estrafalario de otra cultura).
May 14, 2024
If you read too many of these books in a row you suddenly gain the ability to predict the twist ending. That happened more than once while reading this collection. The best story in the collection is Descent which is a classic Atomic Age parable about a couple families bidding farewell to life aboveground as they prepare to enter city-sized bomb shelters at the advent of nuclear war. One of the more out there stories, A Flourish of Strumpets, about an invasion of door-to-door prostitutes, was endlessly amusing. Sometimes you have to wonder where the author got the germ of his idea. Did a rather striking and inappropriately dressed woman knock on his door one night to ask for directions? There are two stories about people who discover they are robots, which was a common theme at the time. And on the horror side of things, Big Surprise reads like a nightmare I almost wish I'd had as a kid, and Crickets, about a man who has deciphered the language of crickets and come to a horrifying realization about what they are saying, will please any fan of vintage Stephen King.
March 15, 2023
La mayoría de los relatos están muy bien. Solo un par realmente resultan inquietantes (¡y cuando lo hacen son maravillosamente perturbadores!). En general son más relatos que parten de un buen concepto. Hay uno que se hace excesivamente largo, pero el resto funcionan bien.
June 15, 2022
Tiene un par o tres de relatos interesantes. El resto pasables, sin más.
Lectura entretenida, rápida y sin muchas complicaciones.
Lectura entretenida, rápida y sin muchas complicaciones.
March 13, 2023
Great collection of unique sci-fi stories.
October 2, 2024
Entretenido, pero bastante más irregular que el primer tomo.
July 24, 2013
2007 bookcrossing:
I picked this up over a year ago from a charity shop because the cover and back blurb were just too funny to resist. They're really short stories - nothing inspired inside from what I've read, although I never managed to get very far into the book...
2009 bookcrossing:
I came back to this book a couple of days ago. I'd been watching some old Twilight Zone episodes from the late 50s/early 60s - great black and white programmes. And I'd noticed that some of them were based on short stories written by Richard Matheson. The name rang a bell, so I dug out this book and thought I'd read it.
The cover doesn't do it any favours - it makes it look really trashy, plus there isn't gore on that scale in the book, nor any green monsters. Having said that, this isn't high literature either, and they are just slightly trashy horror and mystery stories, some serious, some a bit tongue in cheek such as "A Flourish of Strumpets" and "Big Surprise". Nothing overly amazing but they pass the time.
The back is just pure cheese:
"Thirteen Stories - Thirteen Shocks!
Master of the macabre Richard Matheson presents his second collection of stories to chill and terrify - thirteen SHOCKing tales that will make your blood run cold.
Between the pages of this feast of fear you'll meet:
The man who became a machine...
The noblewoman who believed in vampires...
The doctor who faced a witchdoctor's voodoo curse...
The peculiar old man who gave local children a big surprise...
and many more characters guaranteed to give you the SHOCK of your life!"
Dear me. And the peculiar old man line sounds particularly dodgy. The story isn't actually what you'd think, but it is a wierd one. And none of these stories is particularly terrifying.
I picked this up over a year ago from a charity shop because the cover and back blurb were just too funny to resist. They're really short stories - nothing inspired inside from what I've read, although I never managed to get very far into the book...
2009 bookcrossing:
I came back to this book a couple of days ago. I'd been watching some old Twilight Zone episodes from the late 50s/early 60s - great black and white programmes. And I'd noticed that some of them were based on short stories written by Richard Matheson. The name rang a bell, so I dug out this book and thought I'd read it.
The cover doesn't do it any favours - it makes it look really trashy, plus there isn't gore on that scale in the book, nor any green monsters. Having said that, this isn't high literature either, and they are just slightly trashy horror and mystery stories, some serious, some a bit tongue in cheek such as "A Flourish of Strumpets" and "Big Surprise". Nothing overly amazing but they pass the time.
The back is just pure cheese:
"Thirteen Stories - Thirteen Shocks!
Master of the macabre Richard Matheson presents his second collection of stories to chill and terrify - thirteen SHOCKing tales that will make your blood run cold.
Between the pages of this feast of fear you'll meet:
The man who became a machine...
The noblewoman who believed in vampires...
The doctor who faced a witchdoctor's voodoo curse...
The peculiar old man who gave local children a big surprise...
and many more characters guaranteed to give you the SHOCK of your life!"
Dear me. And the peculiar old man line sounds particularly dodgy. The story isn't actually what you'd think, but it is a wierd one. And none of these stories is particularly terrifying.
December 17, 2014
Having spent two days sick in bed I rattled through this between bouts of dozing, fever and groaning. This was definitely the silver lining on the sick cloud.
Matheson's stories are so well constructed and yet work a sparsity of details in such a way that you create as much as you are given. So whether it's the humour of a door-to-door prostitute service or a creepy old man telling children to dig for a surprise this collection really satisfied.
Or is that the fever medicine talking?
Matheson's stories are so well constructed and yet work a sparsity of details in such a way that you create as much as you are given. So whether it's the humour of a door-to-door prostitute service or a creepy old man telling children to dig for a surprise this collection really satisfied.
Or is that the fever medicine talking?
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July 16, 2011Stephen King recommended author and book.
Book noted as "important to the genre we have been discussing" from Danse Macabre, published in 1981. Author discussed in chapter 9.
Book noted as "important to the genre we have been discussing" from Danse Macabre, published in 1981. Author discussed in chapter 9.
May 7, 2019
Secondo volume (di quattro) dell'antologia dei racconti di Matheson. Anche qui si passa da racconti mediamente interessanti ad altri che sfiorano il geniale. Matheson si conferma tra i grandi del genere per la sua invidiabile inventiva.
March 6, 2009
More of the same and still great.
February 14, 2024
4 stars from younger me
April 4, 2008
A couple of these stories were really good, but I'm getting a little tired of Matheson.
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