Richard Matheson has written novels and short stories, as well as screenplays for both film and television. He has sometimes written under the pen name, “Logan Swanson”. His prose has often been adapted for the screen by others and sometimes by Matheson, himself. Notably, he is among the few writers who contributed to Rod Serling‘s classic television series, Twilight Zone (1959) (1959-1964) almost as prolifically as Serling, himself. He wrote about fifteen scripts for the original series and also contributed to Rod Serling‘s Night Gallery (1969) (1972), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) and the television reboot of The Twilight Zone (1985) (1985-1989).

He wrote for many television series, including westerns such as Cheyenne (1955) and Have Gun – Will Travel (1957) (both 1960) as well as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) (1962-1965) and Star Trek (1966) (1966-1968). He scripted made-for-TV-movies, too, most notably Steven Spielberg‘s Duel (1971) and The Night Stalker (1972), among others.

Films based on his stories include The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981), Stir of Echoes (1999), The Young Warriors (1967), among others.

His novels include, I Am Legend (2007) (1954), “The Shrinking Man” (1956), “A Stir of Echoes” (1958), “Ride the Nightmare” (1959), “The Beardless Warriors” (1960), “Bid Time Return” (1975), (later known as Somewhere in Time (1980)), and What Dreams May Come (1998) (1978).

His short stories include “Born of Man and Woman” (1950), “Third From the Sun” (1950), “The Waker Dreams” (1950), “Blood Son” (1951), “The Thing” (1951), among others.