Wire-taut, unbearably tense and told in crisp, spare prose, Matheson’s ground-breaking zombie/vampire hybrid unleashed a horde of imitators and continues to influence both horror and sci-fi genres.
Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth ... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood.
By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.
How long can one man survive like this?
Winner of the Bram Stoker Prize for Vampire Novel of the Century, I Am Legend is a stunning blend of science fiction and horror.
'The most clever and riveting vampire novel since Dracula' - Dean Koontz
'Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me' - Stephen King
'It is, by turns, scary, thrilling, tragic, witty and - ultimately - uplifting' - James Lovegrove
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Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781399607735
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 163 g
Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 16 mm
Having watched 'I am Legend' on a whim and enjoyed it, i decided to pick up a copy of the book.
I found it to be much more exciting, Matheson really forces the reader into the mindset of a truly lonely man...
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I read this book after the film, I quite liked the film although i'll admit I did'nt think it was a classic, much the same as this book, The character of Robert Neville is much like the recent crop of... More
'I am Legend' by Richard Matheson is a relatively short book often cited as a classic of Science Fiction and Horror and the first book to combine the two great genres.
This is the intense and claustrophobic...
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