This volume chronicles and examines all aspects of the writing career of Richard Matheson, including thematic concerns, authorial techniques, and genre tropes, as well as the influence on contemporaries and later writers
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Life of the Legend: A Bio-bibliography -- 2 Early Stories and Novels: The Pre-Legend Years -- 3 I Am Legend and The Shrinking Man: The Benchmark Novels -- 4 The Twilight Zone Years -- 5 From Legendary Scripts to Film -- 6 Novels and Tales to Film, Part I: Multiple Masculinities -- 7 Novels and Tales to Film, Part II: "The Most Monstrous of Monsters" -- 8 Minor Novels and Teleplays -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors