Richard Matheson
1) Hell House
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
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A group of four people enter Belasco House, known as the "Mount Everest of haunted houses."
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Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In Matheson's vampire classic I Am Legend, a plague has decimated the world, and transformed the unfortunate survivors into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, hungry for Neville's blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for...
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English
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Much of Richard Matheson's work has found its way into pop culture: the title story became a memorable episode of television's The Twilight Zone, and more recently Will Smith starred in the blockbuster movie I Am Legend. Stephen King has declared that Matheson is one of his favorite writers. Find out why in this classic short-story collection which includes "Prey," "Mad House," "Blood Son," and many others.
4) Real steel
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to build and train a championship contender.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Soon to be a major motion starring Hugh Jackman, here is a new short story collection by the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend. Imagine a future in which human boxing has been replaced by heavyweight bouts between massive robots. Richard Matheson's classic short story, “Steel,” is the inspiration for Real Steel, a new movie starring Hugh Jackman. “Steel” is just one of over a dozen unforgettable tales in this outstanding collection,...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A camping trip in northern California exposes long-hidden rivalries and resentments between two old friends with tensions rising as they get farther from civilization, until the hostility erupts into a life or death struggle for survival.
9) Soy leyenda
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Español
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"Robert Neville es el único superviviente de una guerra bacteriológica que ha asolado el planeta y convertido al resto de la humanidad en vampiros. Su vida se ha reducido a asesinar el máximo número posible de estos seres sanguinarios durante el día, y a soportar su asedio cada noche. Para ellos, el auténtico monstruo es este hombre que lucha por subsistir en un nuevo orden establecido."--Page [4] of cover.
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English
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Written by one of the grand masters of modern fantasy, Somewhere in Time is the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose powerful love for a woman he has never met allows him to literally transcend time.
A dying young playwright staying in a turn-of-the-century hotel becomes captivated by a painting of a beautiful stage actress from the previous century. Obsessed, he begins to study everything he can about the woman and her time and becomes
...11) The box
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A collection of twelve horror stories originally published in the 1950s and 1960s including Button, button, a story of greed and temptation in which an unhappy married couple is presented with a device and told they will get $50,000 every time they press its button, the catch being that every push will cause someone else's death.
Author
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Journal of the gun years. "A callow youth in search of excitement, Clay Halser travels the raucous frontier towns of the Old West, where a steady nerve and ready trigger finger soon mark him as a gunfighter to be reckoned with. As both an outlaw and lawman, he carves out a legendary career. But fame proves to be the one enemy he can't outdraw..." --
The gun fight. "John Benton was one of the toughest men ever to wear a Texas Ranger badge. Eight...
14) The gun fight
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Series
Publisher
M. Evans and Co
Pub. Date
[1993].
Language
English
Description
Ex-Ranger John Benton has sworn to never use a gun again. Then, young Robby Coles challenges Benton, and Benton regrets his decision.
18) I am legend
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Robert Neville is the last human survivor in what is left of New York City. A pandemic has left only 1% of the population alive and most of those who survived are no longer human. The infected, now lurking in the shadows, watch Neville's every move. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by the only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood.
19) The box
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
What if someone gave you a box containing a button that, if pushed, would bring you a million dollars…but simultaneously take the life of someone you don’t know? Would you do it? And what would be the consequences? The year is 1976. Norma Lewis is a teacher at a private high school and her husband, Arthur, is an engineer working at NASA. They are, by all accounts, an average couple living a normal life in the suburbs with their young son…until...