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A review by librarian_of_trantor
The Best of Richard Matheson by Richard Matheson
2.0
A few good stories here but a lot are pretty dated And some of the stories weren't horror, SF, or fantasy at all. One story was just about someone from a man's past showing up for revenge. The man had hidden his youthful criminal past from his wife. After he kills the intruder he tells wife to call police and he will confess that he is that wanted criminal. The wife calls police and tells them her husband killed an unknown intruder. ??? What was the point of that story?
Many of the stories in the book I didn't even finish.
One reasonably good story was "Nightmare at 20.000 Feet", which Matheson turned into a script for The Twilight Zone (one of his 16 scripts for that show). The best of the stories for me was "Mute" about 7 yo boy who had been raised by his parents as a scientific experiment to only communicate telepathically. He was never taught to speak or read and had no contact with the outside world. After his parents die in a fire he is taken in by a couple has to adjust to a world of words as opposed to pure thought.
Many of the stories in the book I didn't even finish.
One reasonably good story was "Nightmare at 20.000 Feet", which Matheson turned into a script for The Twilight Zone (one of his 16 scripts for that show). The best of the stories for me was "Mute" about 7 yo boy who had been raised by his parents as a scientific experiment to only communicate telepathically. He was never taught to speak or read and had no contact with the outside world. After his parents die in a fire he is taken in by a couple has to adjust to a world of words as opposed to pure thought.