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ISBN13: 9780312865047
ISBN10: 031286504x
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Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.

By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.

How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?

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"The most clever and riveting vampire novel since Dracula." Dean Koontz

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"I think the author who influence me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson. Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me." Stephen King

Synopsis:

Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone.

 

An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him.
 
By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.... 

Synopsis:

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.

By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.

How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?

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Richard Matheson is The New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It..., and What Dreams May Come. A Grand Master of Horror and past winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, he has also won the Edgar, the Hugo, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. He lives in Calabasas, California.
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Table of Contents

I Am Legend

"Buried Talents"

"The Near Departed"

"Prey"

"Witch War"

"Dance of the Dead"

"Dress of White Silk"

"Mad House"

"The Funeral"

"From Shadowed Places"

"Person to Person"

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nrlymrtl, June 16, 2013 (view all comments by nrlymrtl)
At first, it is not clear to the reader what we are dealing with �" vampires? zombies? merely the deranged left over few humans that survived some sort of plague? I’ll leave it up to you to read it and make up your own mind. This is one of the things I really enjoyed about the book �" it didn’t follow any solid fantasy/horror trope. Instead, Robert Neville spends quality time at the local library digging up science texts, learning how a virus or bacteria could spread through out humanity, why the infected need sleep during the day, why garlic repels them. Indeed, Richard Matheson builds science into this horror story, which makes it all the more frightening in the end.

I went back and forth on liking Robert Neville. He isn’t the brightest of the bunch. Initially he seems a decent sort �" missing his family and friends, questioning his own sanity, feeling conflicted about hunting and disposing of the ‘monsters’ by day. He’s also obsessed with sex. One comment had me rolling my eyes a bit �" something along the lines about how it would be worse to die a virgin than to become one of the blood-needy monsters that prowl around his house at night. Really? Sigh…. But, on the other hand, it goes to show his loneliness and his possible slow slip into depravity.

Yet Robert rallies, digs into his science and experiments, and the second half of the book was even more interesting than the beginning. I began to feel for Robert and his lonely plight, his messed up purpose in life, his questions of whether or not he was the only uninfected human left alive. The ending was not what I expected at all, but I found it very fitting, satisfying, and a good explanation of the title.
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jksquires, October 7, 2012 (view all comments by jksquires)
I'm not usually a fan of the vampire variety of science fiction, but Richard Matheson is such a superlative writer that he puts a great literary spin on the genre.
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Kirsten, August 18, 2006 (view all comments by Kirsten)
This volume is actually comprised of Matheson's short novel I am Legend, as well as several of his short stories. I would actually probably give I am Legend 4.5 or even 5 stars, but the short stories were less inspiring.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780312865047
Author:
Matheson, Richard
Publisher:
Orb Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
Horror
Subject:
Horror fiction
Subject:
Occult
Subject:
Vampires
Subject:
Horror tales
Subject:
Vampires -- Fiction.
Subject:
Horror - General
Subject:
Occult & Supernatural
Copyright:
1995
Edition Number:
1st ORB pbk. ed.
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Publication Date:
19970931
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
8.25 x 5.51 x 0.86 in
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Product details 320 pages Orb Books - English 9780312865047 Reviews:
"Review" by , "The most clever and riveting vampire novel since Dracula."
"Review" by , "I think the author who influence me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson. Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me."
"Synopsis" by ,
Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone.

 

An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him.
 
By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.... 
"Synopsis" by ,
Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.

By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.

How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?
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