Screenwriter and Author Richard Matheson Dead at 87

We’ve lost a genius. Author Richard Matheson influenced a host writers and filmmakers and his output was simply incredible. He wrote the screenplays for six Vincent Price films, including LAST MAN ON EARTH which was based in his novel I Am Legend (filmed two more times with Charlton Heston and Will Smith). THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, SOMEWHERE IN TIME, THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE, DUEL, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, STIR OF ECHOES and REAL STEEL were all products of Matheson’s fertile imagination as were many episodes of Twilight Zone, Star Trek, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and Kolchak the Night Stalker. Matheson leaves behind an incredible volume of high-quality writing with hundreds of screenplays, novels, and short stories. He was 87 and there’s not a lot out there as to the cause of his death but I’ll update this story when I get more info. .