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
| Fury on Sunday | (1953) |
  
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| Someone is Bleeding | (1953) |
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| I Am Legend | (1954) |
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| Woman | (1954) |
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| The Shrinking Man | (1956) |
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| A Stir of Echoes | (1958) |
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| Ride the Nightmare | (1959) |
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| The Beardless Warriors | (1960) |
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| Comedy of Terrors | (1964) |
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| Hell House | (1971) |
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| The Night Stalker | (1973) |
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| The Night Strangler | (1974) |
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| Somewhere in Time | (1974) |
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| What Dreams May Come | (1977) |
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| Earthbound | (1982) |
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| Journal of the Gun Years | (1991) |
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| The Gun Fight | (1993) |
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| 7 Steps to Midnight | (1993) |
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| Shadow on the Sun | (1994) |
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| Now You See It... | (1995) |
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| The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok | (1996) |
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| Passion Play | (2000) |
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| Hunger and Thirst | (2000) |
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| Camp Pleasant | (2001) |
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| Hunted Past Reason | (2002) |
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| Abu and the 7 Marvels | (2002) |
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| Come Fygures, Come Shadowes | (2003) |
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| The Link | (2006) |
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| Other Kingdoms | (2011) |
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| Generations | (2012) |
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| Leave Yesterday Alone | (2014) |
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Publication Order of Short Stories
| Pride | (2002) |
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| Slaughter House | (2013) |
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Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Third from the Sun: Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy | (1954) |
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| The Shores of Space | (1957) |
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| Shock!: Thirteen Tales to Thrill and Terrify | (1961) |
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| Shock 2 | (1964) |
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| Shock 3 | (1966) |
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| Shock 4 | (1970) |
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| Richard Matheson's Twilight Zone Scripts, Volume 1 | (1986) |
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| Ghost Trilogy | (1987) |
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| Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks | (1987) |
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| Collected Stories, Volume 1 | (1989) |
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| By the Gun | (1994) |
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| Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories | (2001) |
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| Offbeat: Uncollected Stories | (2002) |
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| Duel | (2003) |
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| Richard Matheson's Kolchak Scripts | (2004) |
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| Darker Places | (2004) |
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| Kiss the Whip: Tales of the Divine Marquis | (2005) |
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| Collected Stories, Volume 2 | (2005) |
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| Collected Stories, Volume 3 | (2005) |
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| Unrealized Dreams | (2005) |
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| Bloodlines | (2006) |
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| Visions of Death: Richard Matheson's Edgar Allan Poe Scripts, Vol. 1 | (2007) |
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| Button, Button: Uncanny Stories | (2008) |
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| Visions Deferred | (2009) |
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| The Box | (2009) |
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| Richard Matheson's Nightmare at 20,000 Feet | (2011) |
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| Richard Matheson Uncollected: Backteria and Other Improbable Tales | (2011) |
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| Steel and Other Stories | (2011) |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
| Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master | (1995) |
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Publication Order of Graphic Novels
| Completely Doomed | (2007) |
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| Road Rage | (2009) |
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Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Path: A New Look at Reality | (1993) |
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| Mediums Rare | (2000) |
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| A Primer of Reality | (2002) |
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| The Richard Matheson Companion | (2008) |
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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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