Writer
February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013
Credits:
Books:
65 Great Spine Chillers
(1982); 7 Steps to Midnight (1993); A Primer of Reality (2002); A Stir of
Echoes (1958); Abu and the 7 Marvels (2002); American Pulp (1997); Best of
Science Fiction: No. 10 (1964); Bloodlines (2006); Button, Button: Uncanny
Stories (2007); By the Gun (1994); California Sorcery (1999); Camp Pleasant (2001);
Collected Stories, Vol. 1 (1989); Collected Stories, Vol. 2 (2005); Collected
Stories, Vol. 3 (2005); Come Fygures, Come Shadowes (2003); Comedy of Terrors
(1964); Completely Doomed (2007); Darker Places (2004); Duel — Horror Stories
of the Road (1987); Duel (1971); Earthbound (1982); Flight or Fright (2018);
Fury on Sunday (1953); Generations (2012); Great Black Magic Stories (1974);
Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1985); Haunts: Reliquaries of the
Dead (2011); Hell House (1971); Hot Blood Tales of Erotic Horror (1989); Hunger
and Thirst (2000); Hunted Past Reason (2002); I Am Legend / The Omega Man
(1954); If This Goes On (1965); Journal of the Gun Years (1991); Kiss the Whip
(2005); Kolchak Scripts (2003); Kolchak the Night Stalker Volume 1 (2004);
Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor (1982); Leave Yesterday
Alone (2013); Masques V (2006); Mediums Rare (2000); Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
(1961); Now You See It... (1995); Off Beat: Uncollected Stories (2020); Other
Kingdoms (2011); Passion Play (2000); Pride (2002); Richard Matheson
Uncollected: Backteria and Other Improbable Tales (2011); Ride the Nightmare
(1959); Road Rage (2012); Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master (1995); Rod
Serling’s Night Gallery Reader (1987); Rod Serling’s Other Worlds (1978);
Second Annual Collection (1989); Shadow on the Sun (1994); Shock!: Thirteen
Tales to Thrill and Terrify (1961); Shock II: Thirteen Tales to Haunt the
Imagination (1964); Shock III (1966); Shock Waves (1970); Slaughter House
(1953); Someone is Bleeding (1953); Somewhere In Time / Bid Time Return (1975);
Star Science Fiction Stories 3 (1955); Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2
(1953); Star Science Fiction Stories No. 5 (1972); Steel and Other Stories
(2011); Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters (2002); Taps and Sighs (2000);
The Beardless Warriors of World War II (1960); The Best Horror Stories from the
Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1988); The Best of Cemetery Dance II
(2008); The Box (2008); The Dead That Walk (2009); The Devil’s Generation
(1973); The Gun Fight (1993); The Incredible Shrinking Man / The Shrinking Man
(1956); The Link (2006); The Mammoth Book of Body Horror (2012); The Memoirs of
Wild Bill Hickok (1996); The Monster Book of Monsters (1988); The Night Stalker
(1973); The Night Strangler (1974); The Path (1993); The Richard Matheson
Companion (2007); The Shores of Space (1957); The Time Traveler’s Almanac
(2013); The Twilight Zone (2017); The Twilight Zone Scripts (1998); The Year’s
Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams (1990); The Young Oxford Book of Nasty
Endings (1998); Third from the Sun: Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy
(1954); Unrealized Dreams (2005); Visions Deferred (2009); Visions of Death:
Richard Matheson’s Edgar Allan Poe Scripts, Vol. 1 (2007); What Dreams May Come
(1978); Woman / Third from the Sun / Born of Man (1954).
Movies and television:
100
Years of Horror (1996); 100 Years of Horror: The Aristocrats of Evil (1996); 100
Years of Horror: The Evil Unseeable (1996); 20 heures le journal (2007); Am I
the Last (2019); Amazing Stories (1986–1987); American Masters (1995); Animus:
The Tell-Tale Heart (2015); Back to 'Somewhere in Time' (2000); Black Magic:
The Making of the Devil Rides Out (2012); Blood Son (2006); Bob Hope Presents
the Chrysler Theatre (1966); Bourbon Street Beat (1960); Buckskin (1959); Captains
and the Kings (1976); Catnado (2022); Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of
Twilight Zone's Magic Man (2010); Cheyenne (1960); Cineficción Radio (2019–2020);
Circle of Fear (1972–1973); Cold Sweat (1970); Combat! (1962); Corman's Comedy
of Poe (2003); Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011); Creating
'I Am Legend' (2008); Dark Dreamers (2011); De Sade (1969); Dead of Night / Segment:
No Such Thing as a Vampire (1977); Die Prüfung (1973); Die! Die! My Darling!
(1965); Dracula (1974); Duel (1971); Dying Room Only (1973); Family Guy (2010);
Have Gun - Will Travel (1960); HBO First Look (2007); Hideouser and Hideouser
(2019); House of Usher (1960); I Am Legend (2007 / 2008); I Am Omega (2007); In
the Year 2889 / It's Alive! (1969); Jaws 3-D (1983); Journey to the Unknown
(1968); Late Night Horror (1968); Lawman (1960–1962); L'esame (2007); Loose
Cannons (1990); Markham (1959); Master of the World (1961); Masters of Fantasy
(1998); Masters of Horror (2005); Minty Comedic Arts (2019); My Ambition (2006);
Night Gallery (1971–1972); Night of the Eagle (1962); Now Is Tomorrow (1958); Official
onesheet. (2011); Perry Como's Christmas in Paris (1982); Perry Como's
French-Canadian Christmas (1981); Person to Person (2011); Prey (1983); Rabid
Love (2012); Racconti di fantascienza (1979); Real Steel (2011); Richard
Matheson Storyteller: Comedy of Terrors (2003); Richard Matheson Storyteller:
The Raven (2003); Richard Matheson: The Writing of 'Duel' (2004); Scream of the
Wolf (1974); Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (2005); Shoestring
Theatre (1962); Someone Is Bleeding (1974); Somewhere in Time (1980); Soy
leyenda (1967); Star Trek (1966); Stir of Echoes (1999); Studio 57 (1955); Tales
of Terror (1962); TCM Remembers 2013 (2013); The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards
(2013); The AckerMonster Chronicles! (2012); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1963);
The Beat Generation (1959); The Box (2006 / 2009); The Comedy of Terrors (1963);
The D.A.'s Man (1959); The Devil Rides Out (1968); The Dreamer of Oz (1990); The
Famous Monsters 1993 World Convention Souvenir Video (1993); The Fearmakers
Collection (2007); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); The Godfather Part II (1974);
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992); The Godfather: A Novel for Television
(1977); The Holiday Man (2009); The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957); The
Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981); The Last Man on Earth (1964); The Last of
the Living (2022); The Last Rites of Richard Keene (2010); The Legend of Hell
House (1973); The Life After Death Project (2013); The Martian Chronicles (1980);
The Mike Douglas Show (1978); The Morning After (1974); The Near Departed (2012);
The Night Stalker (1972); The Night Strangler (1973); The Omega Man (1971); The
Oscars (2014); The Outer Limits (1996); The Pit and the Pendulum (1961); The
Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960); The Raven (1963); The Strange Possession
of Mrs. Oliver (1977); The Stranger Within (1974); The Twilight Zone (1959–2019);
The Twilight Zone / Segment: Button, Button (1986); The Twilight Zone Radio
Dramas (2006–2010); The Young Warriors (1967); This Week in Comedy (2010); Thriller
(1961); Trilogy of Terror / Segment: Amelia (1975); Trilogy of Terror II / Segment:
Bobby (1996); Trilogy of Terror: Terror Scribe (2006); Twilight Zone: Rod
Serling's Lost Classics (1994); Twilight Zone: The Definitive Edition
Interviews (2005); Twilight Zone: The Movie / Segment: four (1983); Vampirismus
(1982); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959); What Dreams May Come (2009).