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I Am Legend is a 1954 post-apocalyptic horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson that was influential in the modern development of zombie and vampire literature and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease.
Richard Matheson. Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood. By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation.
‘I Am Legend’ is a horror and science fiction post-apocalyptic novel that answers the question: “What happens if the world is taken over by vampires?” With the jaw-dropping realistic description of events and an in-depth depiction of the range of emotions felt by Robert Neville, ‘I Am Legend’ holds its place as a sci-fi terror ...
Chapter 1. The year is 1976—one year after a deadly plague sweeps the world, killing virtually all human beings. After their deaths, the world’s human beings rise from the grave and become vampires: sensitive to light, garlic, and mirrors, dormant during the day, and impervious to bullets.
I Am Legend. Richard Matheson. 4.00. 131,918 ratings5,768 reviews. 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.
Jun 27, 2024 · I Am Legend, science-fiction novel written by American author Richard Matheson, published in 1954. In Los Angeles in 1976, Robert Neville is perhaps the last human alive. After the outbreak of a pandemic the year before, everyone else on the planet has been turned into a vampire.
Richard Matheson wrote I Am Legend in 1954. To this day it is a breath of fresh air in the vampire/horror world. These are not Stoker’s vampires, nor are they Meyer’s or Ward’s vampires.
- Richard Matheson
From Richard Matheson, author of Hell House, comes the New York Times bestselling classic tale of the last man on Earth, I Am Legend, winner of the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award for best vampire novel of the century.
- Richard Matheson
The mission of the archive is to collect an example of every worldwide edition of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend published since it's debut in 1954. With this site, I hope to share the collection with fans from around the world.
RICHARD MATHESON I Am Legend . PART I: January 1976 Chapter One ON THOSE CLOUDY DAYS, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back. If he had been more analytical, he might have calculated the approximate time of their arrival;
