Richard Matheson
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"Richard Burton Matheson" was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy fiction/fantasy, Horror film/horror, and science fiction genres. He may be known best as the author of I Am Legend (novel)/I Am Legend, a 1954 horror novel that has been film adaptation/adapted for the screen four times, although six more of his novels or short stories have been adapted as major motion pictures: The Shrinking Man, Hell House (novel)/Hell House, What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere in Time (film)/Somewhere in Time), A Stir of Echoes and Button, Button (The Twilight Zone)#Short story/Button, Button. Matheson also wrote numerous television episodes of The Twilight Zone for Rod Serling, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Steel (The Twilight Zone)/Steel". He later adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" as a screenplay which was promptly directed by a young Steven Spielberg, for the Made-for-television/television movie Duel (1971 film)/of the same name.

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