Backteria: & Other Improbable Tales (Digital Original)

By:

Sign Up Now! Already a Member? Log In
You must be logged into Bookshare to access this title. Learn about membership options, or view our freely available titles.

Synopsis
An essential collection of rare tales of terror from the multi-award-winning Twilight Zone scripter and I Am Legend author—only available in ebook format. A researcher encounters an exotic new strain of &“Backteria&” that causes the infected person to vanish—leading the doctor on a path of discovery deep into a past he should have left buried. A simple &“Haircut&” 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 &“Getting Together.&” Backteria & Other Improbable Tales gathers these and sixteen more uncanny short stories from master storyteller Richard Matheson, &“one of the great names in American terror fiction&” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Stories include: &“Backteria&”, &“He Wanted to Live&”, &“Life Size&”, &“Man with a Club&”, &“Professor Fritz and the Runaway House&”, &“Purge Among Peanuts&”, &“The Prisoner&”, &“The Last Blah in the ETC&”, &“Counterfeit Bills&”, &“1984 ½&”, &“Pride&”, &“Now Die In It&”, &“Leo Rising&”, &“Where There&’s a Will&” (written with Richard Christian Matheson), &“Getting Together&”, &“Person to Person&”, &“CU: Mannix&”, &“Haircut&”, &“An Element Never Forgets&” &“The author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson.&” —Stephen King &“Perhaps no other living author is as responsible for chilling a generation with tantalizing nightmare visions.&” —The New York Times &“Matheson&’s 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.&” —Los Angeles Times
Copyright:
2011

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
266 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780795315824
Publisher:
RosettaBooks
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
RosettaBooks LLC
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Horror, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

Reviews

No Rating Yet