Richard Matheson Movies & TV Episodes
PARTIAL LIST OF HIS WORKS
NOVELS
I Am Legend (1954)
The Shrinking Man (1956)#
A Stir of Echoes (1958)
Hell House (1971)
Bid Time Return (1975)*
What Dreams May Come (1978)
#=also knows as "The Incredible Shrinking Man"
*=later republished under the title "Somewhere in Time"
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (2002)
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Dress of White Silk
Blood Son
Through Channels
Witch War
Mad House
Disappearing Act
Legion of Plotters
Long Distance Call (a.k.a. Sorry, Right Number)
Slaughter House
Wet Straw
Dance of the Dead
The Children of Noah
The Holiday Man
Old Haunts
The Distributor
Crickets
First Anniversary
The Likeness of Julie
Prey
Duel (2003)
Duel
Third from the Sun
When the Waker Sleeps (a.k.a. The Waker Dreams)
Born of Man and Woman
Return
Brother to the Machine
F--- (a.k.a. The Foodlegger)
Lover, When You're Near Me
Shipshape Home
SRL Ad
Death Ship
The Last Day
Little Girl Lost
Trespass (a.k.a. Mother by Protest)
Being
The Test
One for the Books
Steel
Edgar Allan Poe Movies
H.P. Lovecraft Movies
Stephen King Movies & TV Mini-Series
NOVELS
I Am Legend (1954)
The Shrinking Man (1956)#
A Stir of Echoes (1958)
Hell House (1971)
Bid Time Return (1975)*
What Dreams May Come (1978)
#=also knows as "The Incredible Shrinking Man"
*=later republished under the title "Somewhere in Time"
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (2002)
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Dress of White Silk
Blood Son
Through Channels
Witch War
Mad House
Disappearing Act
Legion of Plotters
Long Distance Call (a.k.a. Sorry, Right Number)
Slaughter House
Wet Straw
Dance of the Dead
The Children of Noah
The Holiday Man
Old Haunts
The Distributor
Crickets
First Anniversary
The Likeness of Julie
Prey
Duel (2003)
Duel
Third from the Sun
When the Waker Sleeps (a.k.a. The Waker Dreams)
Born of Man and Woman
Return
Brother to the Machine
F--- (a.k.a. The Foodlegger)
Lover, When You're Near Me
Shipshape Home
SRL Ad
Death Ship
The Last Day
Little Girl Lost
Trespass (a.k.a. Mother by Protest)
Being
The Test
One for the Books
Steel
Edgar Allan Poe Movies
H.P. Lovecraft Movies
Stephen King Movies & TV Mini-Series
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- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsGrant WilliamsRandy StuartApril KentAfter Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him."The Shrinking Man" (1956) - Screenplay
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsRod TaylorJim HuttonCharles AidmanThree astronauts return to Earth after seemingly having made an encounter that dooms them and their craft to erasure from existence itself.Short story (teleplay by Rod Serling)
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsFritz WeaverEdward AndrewsJoe MarossTwo families of Government employees plan to steal a spaceship and travel to another planet just prior to a nuclear war. They must also deal with a stooge who wants to stop them.Short story (teleplay by Rod Serling)
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsKenneth HaighAlexander ScourbySimon ScottA World War I British fighter pilot lands at an American air base in 1959 France.Short story - Teleplay
- DirectorTed PostStarsHoward DuffDavid WhiteFrank MaxwellA businessman sitting in his office inexplicably finds that he is on a production set and in a world where he is a movie star. Uninterested in the newfound fame, he fights to get back to his home and family.Short story - Teleplay
- DirectorRalph NelsonStarsKeenan WynnPhyllis KirkMary LaRocheA writer demonstrates he can control reality simply by dictating changes.Short story - Teleplay
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsWilliam ShatnerPatricia BreslinGuy WilkersonA pair of newlyweds stopping in a small town are trapped by their own superstition when playing a fortune-telling machine in a local diner.Short story - Teleplay
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsAgnes MooreheadDouglas HeyesRod SerlingWhen a woman investigates a clamor in the attic of her rural house, she discovers a small UFO with little aliens emerging from it. Or so it seems.Short story - Teleplay
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsBuster KeatonStanley AdamsJames FlavinJanitor Woodrow Mulligan gets a trip from 1890 to 1962 courtesy of his employer's time-machine helmet.Short story - Teleplay
- DirectorPaul StewartStarsSarah MarshallRobert SampsonCharles AidmanAwakened in the middle of the night by the cries of his daughter, a father enters the girl's room to find that she has vanished - even though he can still hear her crying out for help.Short story - Teleplay
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsPhyllis ThaxterAlex NicolWallace RooneyNewlywed Alex Walker finds himself being pulled back to his childhood and back to his widowed mother in the house where he grew up.Short story - Teleplay
- DirectorStuart RosenbergStarsBarbara BaxleyFrank OvertonIrene DaileyIlse, the orphaned daughter of telepathic parents must learn to speak and deal with a world she cannot communicate in.Short story - Teleplay
51 mins. - DirectorDon MedfordStarsJack KlugmanRoss MartinFred BeirAn interplanetary expedition from Earth finds an exact duplicate of their ship and themselves crashed on the planet they were surveying. Should they stay or risk taking off and crashing?Short story - Teleplay
51 mins. - DirectorDon WeisStarsLee MarvinJoe MantellChuck HicksIn 1974, boxing has been outlawed and is performed by mechanical robots. With his next and possibly last fight approaching and his robot in need of repair, he resorts to one last desperate gamble.Short story - Teleplay
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsWilliam ShatnerChristine WhiteEd KemmerA man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.Short story - Teleplay
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsGladys CooperNora MarloweMartine BartlettTelephone calls begin to haunt a disabled elderly woman.Short story - Teleplay
- DirectorElliot SilversteinStarsDiana HylandMarsha HuntPhilip OberAn engaged heiress is terrorized by a middle-aged woman on a horse pleading with her not to go through with her impending marriage.Short story - Teleplay
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsVincent PriceMark DamonMyrna FaheyUpon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.Screenplay (based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe)
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsVincent PriceBarbara SteeleJohn KerrIn the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.Screenplay (based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe)
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsVincent PriceMaggie PierceLeona GageThree tales of terror involve a grieving widower and the daughter he abandoned; a drunkard and his wife's black cat; and a hypnotist who prolongs the moment of a man's death.Screenplay (based on 4 short stories by Edgar Allan Poe)
3 Segments: "Morella", "The Black Cat" (also based on "The Cask of Amontillado"), "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" - DirectorRoger CormanStarsVincent PricePeter LorreBoris KarloffA magician, who has been turned into a raven, turns to a former sorcerer for help.Screenplay (inspired by a poem by Edgar Allan Poe)
- DirectorJacques TourneurStarsVincent PricePeter LorreBoris KarloffDishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones.Screenplay
A 1964 novelization was written by Elsie Lee - DirectorUbaldo RagonaSidney SalkowStarsVincent PriceFranca BettoiaEmma DanieliWhen a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter."I Am Legend" (1954) - Co-Written Screenplay
- DirectorLeo PennStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyA transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into two halves: one meek and indecisive, the other violent and ill tempered. The remaining crew members stranded on the planet cannot be beamed up to the ship until a problem is fixed.Teleplay (tv series created by Gene Roddenberry)
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsCharlton HestonAnthony ZerbeRosalind CashDr Robert Neville has developed an experimental vaccine which makes him the only immune survivor of a biological catastrophe. A gang of homicidal mutants blame science for their condition and attempt to kill him."I Am Legend" (1954)