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This turned out to be like stepping into a time machine, transported back to the age when I started reading him. I was fourteen. The year was 1986. My introduction to his fiction, his short novel I Am Legend, was one of the first books that made me run up to my friends and tackle them so they\u2019d all check it out, too. If you haven\u2019t read it (what the hell is wrong with you?), it manages to be a work of science fiction, a vampire story, a progenitor of the \u201cbiological plague\u201d apocalyptic novel, and also an excellent thriller. All that in about 160 pages. I had to find out more. I dove into The Shrinking Man (the film added \u201cIncredible\u201d) and Hell House and wow. I wish I had a more sophisticated way to describe my reaction to the seismic effect of Richard Matheson on my young mind, but \u201cwow\u201d gets at the raw, awestruck nature of thing. 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