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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.
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. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.
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.
I Am Legend. Richard Matheson. 4.00. 132,098 ratings5,793 reviews. THE LAST MAN ON EARTH IS NOT ALONE. Robert Neville may well be the only survivor of an incurable plague that has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him.
Oct 30, 2007 · See all formats and editions. The New York Times bestselling classic tale of the last man on Earth, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson--one of genre literature's most honored storytellers. Now a major motion picture starring Will Smith!
The New York Times bestselling classic tale of the last man on Earth, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson--one of genre literature's most honored storytellers. Now a...
May 14, 2011 · I Am Legend. Richard Matheson. RosettaBooks, May 14, 2011 - Fiction - 162 pages. Winner of the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award for best vampire novel of the century: the genre-defining...
As a vampire novel, the touchstone for Am Legend is, without a doubt, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (a novel which Matheson mentions more than once over the course of the book). Stoker’s 1897 Gothic horror novel tells the story of the evil Count Dracula, a vampire who sucks the blood of his victims.
Richard Matheson’s ‘I Am Legend’ is credited as being the origin of movies exploring the scenario of worldwide pandemics and disasters. ‘I Am Legend’ is critically acclaimed and was well received. It has been adapted into three movies:’The Last Man On Earth,’ ‘Omega man,’ and ‘I Am Legend.’.
‘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 ...
