Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 After the hundreds of pages I have written and edited about Richard Matheson, it’s tough to sum up his significance to film and television in a few sentences, but here goes.  Start with the movies that would never have been made if he hadn’t written the novels or stories—and in many cases the scripts—first:  the Hugo Award-winning The Incredible Shrinking Man, the Emmy Award-winning Duel (Steven Spielberg’s feature-length debut), The Legend of Hell House, Trilogy of Terror (with Karen Black’s Zuni-doll smackdown), the Oscar-nominated Somewhere in Time, the Oscar-winning What Dreams May Come, Stir of Echoes, and a little half-billion-dollar hit called I Am Legend (plus its two previous incarnations, The Last Man on Earth and The Omega Man).
Now add his adaptations of works by Edgar Allan Poe (House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum,
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