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An essential collection of rare tales of terror from the multi-award-winning Twilight Zone scripter and I Am Legend authorâonly available in ebook format.  A researcher encounters an exotic new strain of âBackteriaâ that causes the infected person to vanishâleading the doctor on a path of discovery deep into a past he should have left buried.  A simple âHaircutâ that starts off as a routine trim becomes a dark and terrifying experience when a barber is confronted with a sick customer who seems otherworldly.  A case of mistaken identity leads to a darkly farcical story of marriage, murder, and a love that knows no bounds in âGetting Together.â  Backteria \u0026 Other Improbable Tales gathers these and sixteen more uncanny short stories from master storyteller Richard Matheson, âone of the great names in American terror fictionâ (The Philadelphia Inquirer).  Stories include: âBackteriaâ, âHe Wanted to Liveâ, âLife Sizeâ, âMan with a Clubâ, âProfessor Fritz and the Runaway Houseâ, âPurge Among Peanutsâ, âThe Prisonerâ, âThe Last Blah in the ETCâ, âCounterfeit Billsâ, â1984 ½â, âPrideâ, âNow Die In Itâ, âLeo Risingâ, âWhere Thereâs a Willâ (written with Richard Christian Matheson), âGetting Togetherâ, âPerson to Personâ, âCU: Mannixâ, âHaircutâ, âAn Element Never Forgetsâ  âThe author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson.â âStephen King  âPerhaps no other living author is as responsible for chilling a generation with tantalizing nightmare visions.â âThe New York Times  âMathesonâs a writer who just has the special knack, the deft skill to imagine terrifying scenarios on any scale, large and small, and give them chilling possibility.â âLos Angeles Times |
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