Richard Matheson

Richard Matheson (b. 1926) is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and I Am Legend, all of which have been adapted as major motion pictures. Matheson has also written for several The Twilight Zone television show episodes and adapted his 1971 short story Duel into a screenplay later that year for the Steven Spielberg directed television movie of the same name.