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Richard Matheson

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Born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, Richard Burton Matheson first became a published author while still a child, when his stories and poems ran in the "Brooklyn Eagle". A lifelong reader of fantasy tales, he made his professional writing bow in 1950 when his short story "Born of Man and Woman"? appeared in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"; Matheson turned out a number of highly regarded horror, fantasy and mystery stories throughout that decade. He broke into films in 1956, adapting his novel "The Shrinking Man" for the big-screen "The Incredible Shrinking Man."

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Father of writers Chris Matheson, Ali Matheson and Richard Christian Matheson.

According to Roger Corman, his scripts were so good that they usually used the first draft with a minimum of rewrites.

"The Simpsons Tree House of Horror VIII," segment, "The Homega Man," is about neutron-bomb zombies who look like Edgar Winter. It was based upon The Omega Man, which was a film adaptation of Matheson's novel, I am Legend.

Originally wrote a screenplay for the sequel to The Incredible Shrinking Man called The Fantastic Shrinking Girl, of which the protagonist's wife in the first movie begins to shrink herself. The idea was abandoned.

Norwegian-American.

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