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* "Duel", a short story that was made into [[Film/{{Duel}}, the first film]] directed by Creator/StevenSpielberg. Richard Matheson also wrote the script.
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* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E6DeathShip Death Ship]]"
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E15TheInvaders The Invaders]]"
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E18TheLastFlight The Last Flight]]"
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E5Mute Mute]]"
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E7NickOfTime Nick of Time]]"
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E19NightCall Night Call]]"
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E3NightmareAt20000Feet Nightmare at 20,000 Feet]]"
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E7NickOfTime Nick of Time]]"
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E19NightCall Night Call]]"
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E3NightmareAt20000Feet Nightmare at 20,000 Feet]]"
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E13OnceUponATime Once Upon a Time]]"
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E21SpurOfTheMoment Spur of the Moment]]"
* [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E2Steel Steel]]"
* [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E2Steel Steel]]"
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E23AWorldOfDifference A World of Difference]]"
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E36AWorldOfHisOwn A World of His Own]]"
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E34YoungMansFancy Young Man's Fancy]]"
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E36AWorldOfHisOwn A World of His Own]]"
* "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E34YoungMansFancy Young Man's Fancy]]"
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Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an influential American sci-fi/fantasy/horror novelist and screenwriter.
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Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an influential American sci-fi/fantasy/horror novelist novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.
screenwriter in the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres.
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* The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Enemy Within".
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* ''Film/{{Duel}}''
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* RandomSpeciesOffspring: In "Born of Man and Woman", the protagonist is some sort of horrid abomination of a spider-mutant with multiple limbs, wall-climbing and a burning saliva. He was born to normal human parents who are disgusted by him and keep him locked in a basement.
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* {{Curse}}: In "From Shadowed Places" a Manhattan playboy has a curse placed on him by a WitchDoctor he offended while on safari in Southern Africa. The curse causes him to experience bouts of intense pain which grow in frequency and intensity over a three month period. Modern medicine is useless so in desperation he seeks help from an anthropologist to have the curse removed [[YourDaysAreNumbered before it kills him]].
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* ADeadlyAffair: In "No Such Thing As a Vampire" a Romanian doctor's wife appears to be suffering vampire attacks in her sleep. [[spoiler: In truth he's drugging her and taking out small amounts of blood so that he can frame another doctor who's also her lover and let him get staked.]]
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* AbusiveParents: In "Day of Reckoning", sometimes published as "The Faces" or "Graveyard Shift", we meet what may be the most horrifying version of this trope ever.
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* RoboticReveal: In "Deus ex Machina", a man discovers he is actually a robot after cutting himself shaving and finding that he bleeds oil rather than blood. He discovers that numerous others are also robots oblivious to their true nature, [[spoiler:before eventually realizing the AwfulTruth: that humanity and by extension the entire world is and has always been entirely robotic]].
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--> [[spoiler:[[TomatoInTheMirror There was not a human being in the world. There never had been.]]]]
--> [[spoiler:[[TomatoInTheMirror There was not a human being in the world. There never had been.]]]]
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* The script for ''Film/ScreamOfTheWolf''
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** ''Bid Time Return''[=/=]''Somewhere in Time'' had a playwright protagonist [[AuthorAvatar named Richard]].
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-->''"That is history's secret," rejoined the Dean, "veiled behind time's opacity. Our venture does have its honored past, however. Great men have graced its cause -- Ben Franklin, Mark Twain, Dickens.... Shakespeare, of course.... Horace and Seneca.... Yea, in the palaces of Tutankhamen was our work done.... Scraped on rock, in many a primordial cave, are certain drawings. And there are those among us who believe that these were left by the earliest members of the Brotherhood. But this is only legend..."''
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Appears on a massive scale in "The Creeping Terror". The city of Los Angeles is revealed to be sentient, and, as the title implies, slowly grows to take over the entire United States. As it does, it brainwashes everyone it comes into contact with, making them lose their past identities and become shallow, Hollywood-obsessed bimbos. When Los Angeles reaches Boston, the entire population of the city decides to commit mass suicide rather than surrender their free will.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Appears on a massive scale in "The Creeping Terror". The city of Los Angeles is revealed to be sentient, and, as the title implies, slowly grows to take over the entire United States. As it does, it brainwashes everyone it comes into contact with, making them lose their past identities and become shallow, Hollywood-obsessed bimbos. When Los Angeles reaches Boston, the entire population of the city decides to commit mass suicide rather than surrender their free will.
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-->''"That is history's secret," rejoined the Dean, "veiled behind time's opacity. Our venture does have its honored past, however. Great men have graced its cause -- [[Creator/BenjaminFranklin Ben Franklin, Mark Twain, Dickens.... Shakespeare, Franklin]], Creator/MarkTwain, [[Creator/CharlesDickens Dickens]].... [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]], of course.... Horace and Seneca.... Yea, in the palaces of Tutankhamen was our work done.... Scraped on rock, in many a primordial cave, are certain drawings. And there are those among us who believe that these were left by the earliest members of the Brotherhood. But this is only legend..."''
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Appears on a massive scale in "The Creeping Terror". The city ofLos Angeles UsefulNotes/LosAngeles is revealed to be sentient, and, as the title implies, slowly grows to take over the entire United States. As it does, it brainwashes everyone it comes into contact with, making them lose their past identities and become shallow, Hollywood-obsessed bimbos. When Los Angeles reaches Boston, UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}, the entire population of the city decides to commit mass suicide rather than surrender their free will.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Appears on a massive scale in "The Creeping Terror". The city of
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* {{Mutants}}: The protagonist of "Born of Man and Woman" is a deformed child born to normal human parents who are disgusted by him and keep him locked in a basement. The end of the story reveals that his deformities are much more extensive then the reader had been led to believe, including multiple limbs, wall-climbing and green blood.
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* The short story "Little Girl Lost" was the basis for a ''Twilight Zone'' episode as well and a partial inspiration for ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}''.
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* The short story "Little Girl Lost" was the basis for a ''Twilight Zone'' episode as well and a partial inspiration for ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}''.''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}''.
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* ''The Night Stalker'', a MadeForTVMovie adaptation of a (then unpublished) novel by Jeffrey Grant Rice, and its sequel TV movie, ''The Night Strangler''. Both movies were huge ratings hits, which led to the development of the series ''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker'' (which Matheson was not involved with).
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* ''The Night Stalker'', ''Film/TheNightStalker'', a MadeForTVMovie adaptation of a (then unpublished) novel by Jeffrey Grant Rice, and its sequel TV movie, ''The Night Strangler''.''Film/TheNightStrangler''. Both movies were huge ratings hits, which led to the development of the series ''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker'' (which Matheson was not involved with).
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* The script for ''Film/TheNightStalker'' and ''Film/TheNightStrangler''
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->''"Life is a risk; so is writing. You have to love it."''
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* TheLastDance: His 1950 story ''The Last Day'' has Earth about to be destroyed. The protagonist wakes up after a drunken orgy and decides to go see the profoundly religious mother he's been avoiding.
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* TheLastDance: His 1950 story ''The Last Day'' has Earth about to be destroyed.destroyed by a comet. The protagonist wakes up after a drunken orgy and decides to go see the profoundly religious mother he's been avoiding.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture:
** "Death Ship" was published in 1953 and takes place in 1997.
** "Steel" was published in 1956 and takes place in 1980.
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