The genres of the Science fiction, fantasy and terror found in Richard Matheson to one of those authors capable of offering a varied work that sometimes delved into suggestive fantasies; or that he made your hair stand on end with that terror that comes from the unknown, that ancestral fear; or that it also raised extremely attractive scientific assumptions for a narrative proposal that was always fascinating in one case or another.
Its parallel performance of series scriptwriter made it possible for all of us to enjoy mythical series such as Unknown Dimension (perhaps you know it more by Twilight Zone), File X or great films such as his own and highly valued adaptations of his novels The Incredible Shrinking Man, Beyond Dreams or I'm legend.
Passionate about his profession, Matheson wrote a multitude of short stories and stories, beyond a very relevant group of novels recommended for all types of readers, since he certainly always maintains a hook with reality that manages to extract empathy even in those most accustomed to more realistic stories ...
Top 3 best Richard Matheson books
The Incredible Waning Man
Halfway between "Gulliver's Travels" and "Honey, I Shrunk the Children", we find this novel that brings the best of one version or another.
It is a disturbing reading at times, as J's originalonathan Swift, but it also has that point of idle reading, of cinematographic scenery.
I must admit that I started to read this book thanks to a song with the same name from La Dama se Esconde. And as chance would have it, he would end up being extremely grateful for the casual musical-literary synergy.
Because in the story of Scott, the shrinking man, a fantastic plot is discovered that at the same time evokes survival in the face of those adversities that seek to belittle us. How could it be otherwise in a novel with this plot, the ending is shocking ...
I'm legend
To this day we all remember Will Smith locked up in his New York townhouse (I have a picture on the very door). But as always, the reading imagination surpasses all other recreation.
I'm not saying that the movie is wrong, quite the opposite. But the truth is that reading the life and work of Robert Neville, the last survivor of the bacteriological catastrophe that made our civilization a world of vampires, is much more disturbing in the novel.
The siege to which Robert is subjected night after night, his outings to that world turned into a sinister version of what it was, the confrontations to life and death, the risks and the final hope ... a book that you cannot stop reading.
Beyond the dreams
A blatantly existential novel from the fantastic. Living can be an irremediable emptiness when the blinding light of the ultimate truth makes it impossible to deal with the day to day.
Depression as a strange world full of intense colors, loss as an insurmountable fact. A sad novel that is partially compensated by that notion of the other side, of the soul capable of reaching a paradise.
Only that the soul of Chris Nielsen, Annie's late husband, must take care that she continues to live her life without falling into the temptation to erase herself from the world, an action that could condemn her to an eternal purgatory in which they could never find themselves again. .
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