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Richard Matheson: Collected StoriesSeries
series4 books1989
completed
Science fiction and horror, dark and eerie in tone, about madness, set in our world and mid 20th century.
Start with Richard Matheson: Collected Stories Volume One →
Some of Your BloodNovel
Theodore Sturgeonstandalone novel1961
Psychological horror.
Twilight ZoneUniverse
universe40 books1960
Science fiction, set in our world.
“Picture, if you will, an ordinary person on an ordinary afternoon: a tired salesman, a frightened child, a man who wants only to be left alone.”
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Start with Stories from the Twilight Zone →
includes Twilight Zone Collections, Twilight Zone Scripts (Richard Matheson), Twilight Zone Anthologies, Twilight Zone Scripts (Rod Serling), The Twilight Zone Novels, Twilight Zone Doubles
I Am LegendNovel
Richard Mathesonstandalone novel1954
Post-apocalyptic, about vampires and last of their kind.
“The last human survivor of the vampire epidemic has to maintain his defences against their onslaught, while attempting to research the cause and possibly solution to the plague.”
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The Kraken WakesNovel
John Wyndhamstandalone novel1953
Alien invasion, tense in tone, about war, set in at sea.
“Earth's life is disrupted by the attacks of extraterrestrials whose war machines, emerging from the depths of the oceans, seem indestructible.”
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Eye in the SkyNovel
Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1957
Challenging in tone, set in north america.
“Eight visitors touring a particle-accelerator facility are caught in a catastrophic malfunction, a collapsing platform, a burst of radiation, that leaves them all unconscious.”
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