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
| Someone is Bleeding | (1953) |    |
| Fury on Sunday | (1953) | |
| Woman / Third from the Sun / Born of Man | (1954) | |
| I Am Legend / The Omega Man | (1954) | |
| The Incredible Shrinking Man / The Shrinking Man | (1956) | |
| A Stir of Echoes | (1958) | |
| Ride the Nightmare | (1959) | |
| The Beardless Warriors of World War II | (1960) | |
| Comedy of Terrors | (1964) | |
| Hell House | (1971) | |
| The Night Stalker | (1973) | |
| The Night Strangler | (1974) | |
| Somewhere In Time / Bid Time Return | (1975) | |
| What Dreams May Come | (1978) | |
| Earthbound | (1982) | |
| Journal of the Gun Years | (1991) | |
| The Gun Fight | (1993) | |
| 7 Steps to Midnight | (1993) | |
| Shadow on the Sun | (1994) | |
| Now You See It... | (1995) | |
| The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok | (1996) | |
| Passion Play | (2000) | |
| Hunger and Thirst | (2000) | |
| Camp Pleasant | (2001) | |
| Hunted Past Reason | (2002) | |
| Abu and the 7 Marvels | (2002) | |
| Come Fygures, Come Shadowes | (2003) | |
| The Link | (2006) | |
| Other Kingdoms | (2011) | |
| Generations | (2012) | |
| Leave Yesterday Alone | (2013) | |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Slaughter House | (1953) | |
| Pride | (2002) | |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Third from the Sun: Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy | (1954) | |
| The Shores of Space | (1957) | |
| Nightmare at 20,000 Feet | (1961) | |
| Shock!: Thirteen Tales to Thrill and Terrify | (1961) | |
| Shock II: Thirteen Tales to Haunt the Imagination | (1964) | |
| Shock III | (1966) | |
| Shock Waves | (1970) | |
| Duel | (1971) | |
| Collected Stories, Vol. 1 | (1989) | |
| By the Gun | (1994) | |
| The Twilight Zone Scripts | (1998) | |
| Kolchak Scripts | (2003) | |
| Darker Places | (2004) | |
| Collected Stories, Vol. 2 | (2005) | |
| Collected Stories, Vol. 3 | (2005) | |
| Unrealized Dreams | (2005) | |
| Bloodlines | (2006) | |
| Button, Button: Uncanny Stories | (2007) | |
| Visions of Death: Richard Matheson's Edgar Allan Poe Scripts, Vol. 1 | (2007) | |
| The Box | (2008) | |
| Visions Deferred | (2009) | |
| Richard Matheson Uncollected: Backteria and Other Improbable Tales | (2011) | |
| Steel and Other Stories | (2011) | |
| Road Rage | (2012) | |
| Off Beat: Uncollected Stories | (2020) | |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
| Completely Doomed | (2007) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Path | (1993) | |
| Mediums Rare | (2000) | |
| A Primer of Reality | (2002) | |
| The Richard Matheson Companion | (2007) | |
Publication Order of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Books
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Go Bump in the Night | (1940) | |
| Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV | (1957) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents 13 More Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV | (1957) | |
| 12 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV | (1957) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories for Late at Night | (1961) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents: More Stories for Late at Night [Unabridged] | (1962) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock's A Hangman's Dozen | (1962) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me | (1963) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous | (1965) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Month Of Mystery | (1970) | |
| Down by the Old Blood Stream | (1971) | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Master's Choice. | (1979) | |
| Stories That Go Bump In The Night: V. 1 | (1982) | |
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) | |
Publication Order of Kolchak: The Night Stalker Books
| The Night Strangler | (1974) | |
| Fever Pitch | (2002) | |
| Lambs to the Slaughter | (2003) | |
| Devil in the Details | (2003) | |
| Get of Belial | (2003) | |
| Kolchak the Night Stalker Volume 1 | (2004) | |
| Terror Within | (2006) | |
| Bare Bones | (2006) | |
| Kolchak the Night Staker Casebook | (2006) | |
| The Lovecraftian Horror | (2007) | |
| The Kolchak Papers: The Original Novels | (2007) | |
| Sound of Fear | (2008) | |
| The Rise & Fall of Carl Kolchak | (2009) | |
| Sherlock Holmes & Kolchak the Night Stalker | (2010) | |
| Sherlock Holmes & Kolchak The Night Stalker: Cry Of Thunder | (2010) | |
| The Lost World | (2012) | |
| Compendium | (2012) | |
| The Night Strangler Files | (2012) | |
| Kolchak | (2012) | |
| Necronomicon | (2012) | |
| Big Book of Kolchak the Night Stalker | (2012) | |
| The Night Stalker Chronicles | (2015) | |
Publication Order of Hot Blood Books
| Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror | (1989) | |
| Hotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horror | (1991) | |
| Hottest Blood | (1993) | |
| Deadly After Dark | (1994) | |
| Seeds of Fear | (1995) | |
| Fear the Fever | (1996) | |
| Kiss and Kill | (1997) | |
| Crimes of Passion | (1997) | |
| Hot Blood X | (1998) | |
| Fatal Attractions | (2003) | |
| Strange Bedfellows | (2004) | |
| Dark Passions | (2007) | |
| Stranger by Night | (2011) | |
| Anthology series. | ||
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Star Science Fiction Stories 3 | (1955) | |
| Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master | (1995) | |
| American Pulp | (1997) | |
| Taps and Sighs | (2000) | |
| Kiss the Whip | (2005) | |
| Masques V | (2006) | |
| The Dead That Walk | (2009) | |
| Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead | (2011) | |
| Flight or Fright | (2018) | |
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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