I Am Legend

Richard Matheson

ISBN 10: 0899668380 ISBN 13: 9780899668383

Publisher: Buccaneer Books, 1996

Synopsis

A lone human survivor in a world that is overrun by vampires, Robert Neville follows a desperate life in which he must barricade himself in his home every night and hunt down the starving undead by day. Reprint.

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Review:

One of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century, I Am Legend regularly appears on the "10 Best" lists of numerous critical studies of the horror genre. As Richard Matheson's third novel, it was first marketed as science fiction (for although written in 1954, the story takes place in a future 1976). A terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive have been transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night. Except, that is, for Robert Neville. He alone appears to be immune to this disease, but the grim irony is that now he is the outsider. He is the legendary monster who must be destroyed because he is different from everyone else. Employing a stark, almost documentary style, Richard Matheson was one of the first writers to convince us that the undead can lurk in a local supermarket freezer as well as a remote Gothic castle. His influence on a generation of bestselling authors--including Stephen King and Dean Koontz--who first read him in their youth is, well, legendary. --Stanley Wiater

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About this edition

• Publisher: Buccaneer Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0899668380
• ISBN 13: 9780899668383
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 151