MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Evil is not just a word. It is reality.”
Vincent Price in House of Usher
#HouseOfUsher #TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher #RogerCorman #RichardMatheson #VincentPrice #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday

People are only as good or evil as their options.

#ButtonButton (from “The #TwilightZone,” 1985 series) (based on a short story by #RichardMatheson).

Link (video, 20:28min): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NTpcT60zA8I

Le porte di Tannhäuser #8 https://radiowombat.net/le-porte-di-tannhauser-8/ #RobertSilverberg-Gianni.MichaelMoorcock-Uncantantemorto #JohnShirley-Eclipse-UnacanzonechiamataGiovinezza #DanSimmons-CantidiHyperion"Hyperion" #RichardMatheson-Lamacchinadeljazz #ArthurC.Clarke-Ritmoassoluto #JackVance-L’operadellospazio #RobertSilverberg-Gianni #LeportediTannhauser #XPianetasinfonico #Senzacategoria #JGBallard #PKDick

Termino de #leer "La casa infernal" de Richard #Matheson. Suscribir que es una magnífica #novela y que te pone los pelos de punta 😅. ¡Qué bien escribía este hombre! Durante la lectura me han ido viniendo constantemente recuerdos de #fotogramas de la #película y de la atmósfera angustiosa que se palpaba en la casa. #Lectura #imprescindible para los amantes del #terror #libros #novelas #richardmatheson #books

In Richard Matheson's BID TIME RETURN (and its film SOMEWHERE IN TIME, adapted by Matheson and quite different from the book), Elise McKenna says "Is it you?" when she first sees Richard Collier, the man she falls in love with, in 1896. Now why does this WORK? Why doesn't this line come across as cheesy? Well, perhaps because genre's liberties allow us to suspend our disbelief to some extent. And Matheson was nimble enough to connect this advantage to common romantic longings and fatalism. I think that what separates good writers (and Matheson was indeed a good one) working in genre from hacks is the degree to which fantastical imagination is tied to the human heart. And this is probably why the "Anything Goes" school of unfettered magical realism irritates the hell out of me. Every move you make must be rooted in something tangible.

#richardmatheson #genre #writing #somewhereintime

Today's #ElizabethDaily favorite #horror #Kindle #ebooks on sale:

It's Legends of Horror Day!

The Colorado Kid by Stephen King (King does pulp fiction 🚬) $4.99
https://www.amazon.com/Colorado-Hard-Case-Crime-Book-ebook/dp/B000FCKFGW

Richard Matheson Suspense Novels: The Shrinking Man, Camp Pleasant, Hunger & Thirst, 7 Steps to Midnight by Richard Matheson (FOUR stories by the master 🤩) $2.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L9H3PZ5

#HorrorBooks #AmReading #BookToot #Bookstodon #Books #HorrorFam #Bookwyrm #StephenKing #RichardMatheson

Tonight in 1977 — DEAD OF NIGHT debuted on NBC.

#DarkShadows mastermind #DanCurtis produced + directed this creepy made-for TV anthology film written by #RichardMatheson.

It stars Patrick Macnee, Ed Begley Jr. and Lee H. Montgomery (who is nightmare-inducing).

#ClassicTV #1970sTV #1970s

Hoy he terminado de leer Tokio Blues de Haruki #Murakami y me ha parecido una obra exquisita. Como me ha pillado en el Metro he decidido comenzar con La casa infernal de Richard Matheson. En su día vi la película titulada La leyenda de la casa del infierno y me resultó bastante acojonante. El libro seguro que estará a la altura con creces. ¿Los habéis leído? #libros #books #novela #RichardMatheson #terror

Oggi così.
#richardmatheson #fantascienza #Urania70 #urania #libri

#Bales2023FilmChallenge March 5: Someone named Scott for #NationalScottDay

Despite its sensationalist pulpy title and #ColdWar premise, Jack Arnold's adaptation of the #RichardMatheson novel is an existentialist treatise.

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) plays with the understanding of what it means to be acknowledged as a human, and one's place in the world. The story is told through the eyes of the titular Shrinking Man – Scott Carey – who after being exposed to strange fog, finds himself increasingly lost in this world.

It's phenomenal and I can only recommend it.

#film #SciFi #drama #GrantWilliams #JackArnold #existentialism #phenomenology #psychology #philosophy @film

#Bales2023FilmChallenge March 5: Someone named Scott for #NationalScottDay

Despite its sensationalist pulpy title and #ColdWar premise, Jack Arnold's adaptation of the #RichardMatheson novel is an existentialist treatise.

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) plays with the understanding of what it means to be acknowledged as a human, and one's place in the world. The story is told through the eyes of the titular Shrinking Man – Scott Carey – who after being exposed to strange fog, finds himself increasingly lost in this world.

It's phenomenal and I can only recommend it.

#film ##SciFi #drama #GrantWilliams #JackArnold #existentialism #phenomenology #psychology #philosophy @film

@grungedepueblo ¿Has leído el relato corto de #RichardMatheson? Genial que fuera el mismo el que adaptará el guión para Spielberg. ¡Dos genios! :ablobcool:

#RichardMatheson (1926-2013) #BOTD
For Twilight Zone he wrote "Steel", "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", "Little Girl Lost" & many others. He adapted stories for Roger Corman’s 1960s Poe films & wrote the #StarTrek episode "The Enemy Within.” He received the World #Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1984, the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement from the #Horror Writers Association in 1991 & the #ScienceFiction Hall of Fame inducted him in 2010.
@bookstodon #SF #SFF

#365Stories in 2023 - 51/365
--
"Prey" (1969)
by Richard Matheson

Amelia finds the perfect gift for Arthur - a fetish doll, purported to contain a warrior spirit. When the chain binding the spirit falls off, she fights for her life against a miniature, but mighty, hunter.

Matheson avoids silliness with the "killer doll"; by keeping it off-screen for much of the story, he instead evokes fear and tension through Amelia's senses and thoughts.

#Books
#Bookstodon
#Horror
#Reading
#RichardMatheson

Richard Matheson (1926-2013) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?531

L, John Richards, 1956; R, Josh Kirby, 1965

#ScienceFiction #RichardMatheson #scifi

The Legend of Hell House is a 1973 British horror flick written by Richard Matheson, based on his fine novel Hell House.

The film concerns a scientific investigation of a haunting.

One of the very best haunted house movies ever made. A superb example of subtle intelligent horror.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-legend-of-hell-house-1973-revisited.html

#RichardMatheson #RoddyMcDowall #michaelgough #hauntedhouse #gothichorror #horrormovies #cultmovies #cultmovie #ghoststories #ghosts #ghosthunters #PamelaFranklin

#Books and me:

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail of '72 - #HunterSThompson
Snow Crash - #NealStephenson
I Am Legend - #RichardMatheson
The Baroque Cycle - #NealStephenson
Perdido Street Station - #ChinaMiéville
Under The Banner of Heaven - #JonKrakauer
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West - #CormacMcCarthy
Slaughterhouse-Five - #KurtVonnegutJr
The Crying of Lot 49 - #ThomasPynchon
If He Hollers Let Him Go - #ChesterHimes

I could go on and on....

Having lost a bunch of older website content and with new articles on hiatus for a few months now (new content coming soon), being new to the Mastodon Community, I figured it was worth posting links to some remaining older articles, as an intro to our dubious wares, starting with:

INHERIT THE WASTELAND: THE LEGEND OF THE LAST ΩMEGA MAN ON EARTH - an exploration of the screen adaptations of 'I Am Legend' (by me)

https://www.cinemacabre.co.uk/2021/10/inherit-wasteland-legend-of-last-mega.html

#Dystopia #SciFi #Horror #HorrorMovies #RichardMatheson

It's a bit late to be posting this, but on the off chance you're still in a #Halloween mood or you just like #vampire stories, here's a short story written by #RichardMatheson (and read by me) called "No Such Thing as a Vampire." One of my favorite stories of this genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW-k8582-oU

DropSea: Tre millimetri al giorno goo.gl/fb/YQexux #fantascienza #fanucci #recensione #richardmatheson