Order of Richard Matheson Books
Richard Matheson (1926-2013) was an American author of horror, science fiction and fantasy novels, stories and screenplays. Many of his novels have been adapted into films, including I Am Legend (four times over), The Shrinking Man, Hell House, What Dreams May Come, Somewhere in Time, A Stir of Echoes and Button, Button. He also wrote some of the most famous episodes of The Twilight Zone, including “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.”
Richard Matheson became a published author in 1950 with a short story entitled Born of Man and Woman in 1950. His first novel was a suspense novel, entitled Fury on Sunday, which was published in 1953. Below is a list of Richard Matheson’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Slaughter House | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pride | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Third from the Sun: Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Shores of Space | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nightmare at 20,000 Feet | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shock!: Thirteen Tales to Thrill and Terrify | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shock II: Thirteen Tales to Haunt the Imagination | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shock III | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shock Waves | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Duel | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Stories, Vol. 1 | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| By the Gun | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Twilight Zone Scripts | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kolchak Scripts | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Darker Places | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Stories, Vol. 2 | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Collected Stories, Vol. 3 | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Unrealized Dreams | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bloodlines | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Button, Button: Uncanny Stories | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Visions of Death: Richard Matheson's Edgar Allan Poe Scripts, Vol. 1 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Box | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Visions Deferred | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Richard Matheson Uncollected: Backteria and Other Improbable Tales | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Steel and Other Stories | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Road Rage | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Off Beat: Uncollected Stories | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
| Completely Doomed | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Path | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mediums Rare | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Primer of Reality | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Richard Matheson Companion | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Star Science Fiction Books
(with Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, Jack Vance, Philip K. Dick, Lester del Rey, Jack Williamson)
| Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Star Science Fiction Stories 3 | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Best of Science Fiction: No. 10 | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| If This Goes On | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Star Science Fiction Stories No. 5 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Devil's Generation | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Great Black Magic Stories | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rod Serling's Other Worlds | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 65 Great Spine Chillers | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Duel — Horror Stories of the Road | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Monster Book of Monsters | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Second Annual Collection | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| American Pulp | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Taps and Sighs | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kiss the Whip | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Masques V | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best of Cemetery Dance II | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Dead That Walk | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mammoth Book of Body Horror | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Time Traveler's Almanac | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Flight or Fright | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Notes: I Am Legend was also published as The Omega Man. The Shrinking Man was also published as Incredible Shrinking Man. Somewhere in Time was originally published under the title of Bid Time Return. Third from the Sun is also known as Born of Man and Woman.
Earthbound was written as Logan Swanson. Comedy of Terror is a novelization by Elsie Lee, based on a screenplay by Richard Matheson. The Night Stalker is a novelization by Jeff Rice, based on a screenplay by Matheson. Pride was co-authored by Richard Christian Matheson. Kiss the Whip also contains contributions by Robert Bloch, Henry Clement, Jean-Paul Denard and Jeremy Reed. Road Rage also contains contributions by Joe Hill and Stephen King. Completely Doomed also has stories by Robert Bloch, David J. Schow and F. Paul Wilson.
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Richard Matheson Synopsis: In Ride the Nightmare by Richard Matheson, Chris and Helen were living the good life until Helen finds out about something in Chris’ past. Overnight, their relationship turns into a world of fear and brutality that may cause them to lose their only child.
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