Born in New Jersey on February 20, 1926, Matson began his writing career as a child, with several of his short stories and poems published in a local newspaper. The first professional fantasy story was published in 1950 in the Journal of Fantasy and Science Fiction. At the age of 25, the writer moved to California, where he still lives. His literary work began with the detective novel “Fury on Sunday”. In the same 1953, his second detective "Someone Is Bleeding" came out.
In 1954, he published his classic novel I Am Legend, about the last man in a world composed entirely of vampires.
Matson made a huge contribution to other genres - in fiction by the novel "The Shrinking Man" ("The Shrinking Man"), filmed in 1957, western (a series of books "Journal of the Year Guns", "The Gun Fight", "By the Gun", love romance (a screen adaptation of one of his novels " "The Way Down"), filmed in 1957, Western (a series of books "Journal of the Year", "The Guns's", "The Gun", "By the Gun", "Something" in 1980, and "Something; on the Night").
Richard Matson also joined the TV legend Twilight Zone, for which he regularly wrote scripts. He was in third place in the number of episodes written for the series. In 1986, all the scripts he wrote for the film legend came out as a separate book.
Richard Matson's books:
Fury on Sunday (1953) (detective)
Someone Is Bleeding (1953) as Detective
Third from the Sun (1954) (story collection)
I Am Legend (1954) (fiction/horror)
The Shrinking Man (1956) (fiction)
A Stir of Echoes (1958) as Horror
Ride the Nightmare (1959) as Detective
The Beardless Warriors (1960) (war novel)
Shock! (1961) (story collection)
Shock 2 (1964) (story collection)
Shock 3 (1966) (story collection)
Shock 4 (1970) (story collection)
Shockwaves (1970) (story collection)
Hell House (1971) (Horrors)
Bid Time Return (1975) (drama/fiction)
What Dreams May Come (1978) (TV Movie)
Earthbound (1982) (as Logan Swanson)
Scars (1987) (story collection)
Through Channels (1989)
Journal of the Gun Years (1991) (Western)
7 Steps to Midnight (1993) (Thriller)
The Gun Fight (1993) (Western)
By the Gun (1993) (narrative/Western)
Shadow on the Sun (1994)
Now you see it... (1995)
Hunger and Thirst (2000) (drama)
Medium's Rare (2000)
Passion Play (2000)
Camp Pleasant (2001)
Abu and the 7 Marvels (2002) (fiction/fairy tales)
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (2002) (story collection)
Haunted past reasons (2002) (Thriller)