Richard Matheson - Archive Interview Part 1 of 7

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7-part interview with writer Richard Matheson, who reminisces about his early writing, and his experiences working with Hollywood on the feature film adaptation of his novel "The Incredible Shrinking Man". He speaks about his writing partnership with Charles Beaumont, and touches on their work for the western series "Lawman". He discusses his writing on "The Twilight Zone". He also discusses many of his other TV credits, including episodes of "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour", "Combat!", and "Star Trek". Finally, he talks about his many made-for-television movie credits, including "Duel" and "The Night Stalker", as well as his work on "The Martian Chronicles" and "Amazing Stories".

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[MasterxGracey]

It's a shame that a video I have about a sheep making a funny noise has more views than an intimate sitdown with the greatest horror fiction writer to ever draw breath.

[starfleet2scoutship]

I want to meet him so bad.

[CarlClaus7777]

I love Matheson but Poe was more profound. Poe wrote about universal themes on human nature--madness, the state of human existence in the universe. Also may have invented the detective story. Matheson is a fantastic writer and I Am Legend is a grand genre achievement, but his greatness is in developing unique and fundamental plot situations with ironic conclusions(last man on earth, crazy man seeing creature on plane), Poe explored the human condition in iconic symbolic ways.

[JOHNSTOCKTONREIGNS]

ha scritto grandissime storie e pure tra i figli si vede da alcuni loro scritti tracce di genio

[whomitaw]

This man is a Legend

[cliffjburns]

One of my biggest heroes and literary influences. He and Charles Beaumont set the standard for the genre...and no one has ever surpassed them.

[ProRanting]

@TranscendentBiscuit Please refrain from mentioning Koontz in a video with Matheson. Koontz is just...just awful and that is the words of Stephan King.

[TranscendentBiscuit]

@cynthiacher

Couldn't agree more. King, Koontz, and many other horror writers were inspired by him. The only writer that could rival or surpass him was H.P Lovecraft. Matheson gave us the idea of horror in mundane settings, wherein Lovecraft gave us the idea of cosmic horror, things so big and horrible they can't be seen without risking your sanity.

[warmecanic]

he´s a legend, just like his short stories and novels.

[hatmap]

Richard Matheson and the late Robert Bloch are America's two greatest horror short-story writers. Both are even better (and more imaginative) than Edgar Allan Poe.

[asmodeo1984]

@MrPSGifford

really?

where and when?