Richard Matheson

This eerie ghost story, from Richard Matheson, the award-winning author of Hell House and I Am Legend, inspired the acclaimed 1999 film starring Kevin Bacon. Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now he's hearing the private thoughts of the people around him-and learning shocking secrets he never wanted to know. But as Tom's existence becomes a waking nightmare, even greater jolts are in store as he becomes the unwilling recipient of a compelling message from beyond the grave

When an unexpected accident cuts his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Chris Nielsen must discover the nature of life after death, but when tragedy threatens to divide Chris and Annie forever, he risks his very soul to save her from an eternity of despair. Reprint.

A chilling anthology of classic suspense tales by the Grand Master of Horror includes such outstanding works as "Duel," the tale upon which Stephen Spielberg based his acclaimed first film, as well as "Born of Man and Woman," "Little Girl Lost," "Steel," and "Third from the Sun." Simultaneous.

Personally selected by Richard Matheson, the bestselling author of I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come, the stories in Nightmare at 20,000 feet more than demonstrate why Matheson's regarded as one of our most influential horror writers. Featuring the story "Duel," a nail-biting tale of man versus machines that inspired Steven Spielberg's first film. Remember that monster on the wing of the airplane? William Shatner saw it on The Twilight Zone, John Lithgow saw it in the movie-even Bart Simpson saw it. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is just one of many classic horror stories by Richard Matheson that have insinuated themselves into our collective imagination. Here are more than twenty of Matheson's most memorable tales of fear and paranoia, including: "Prey," in which a terrified woman is stalked by a malevolent Tiki doll, as chillingly captured in yet another legendary TV moment; "Blood Son," a disturbing portrait of a strange little boy who dreams of being a vampire; "Dress of White Silk," a seductively sinister tale of evil and innocence.

In a novel inspired by the author's own World War II experiences, Everett Hackermeyer, a troubled youth from a nightmarish family background, confronts the perils and hardships of war when he joins a squad of teenage American infantrymen battling their way across Germany during the final days of the war in Europe. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Falling in love with a woman whom he has never met, a modern man is drawn back in time to 1896, where he meets the woman of his dreams in the person of a celebrated nineteenth-century actress. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.