![]() ![]() ![]() Day after day after day, since the world as we know it ended. Each day, he has to make repairs to his house, hunt for provisions, and go kill the mutant vampires as they lay in their stupor before coming out to lay siege to his house in the night, where he barricades himself in, until he goes through the motions again the next day. Robert Neville is the last human on Earth, but he’s not alone. “In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.” ![]() Humanity almost wiped out due to a pandemic? Survivors battling a hostile “Other” in a post-apocalyptic world? Approaching the supernatural with (pseudo)scientific explanations? You guessed it: Brand new concepts at the time, which Matheson popularized with this novel.Īnd apart from all that, once you’ve read the book and been given context, these three simple words will haunt you, and become one of the most spine-chilling phrases you’ll ever hear. Stephen King? We wouldn’t have the King of Horror through-out his career, he has frequently cited Matheson as the author who influenced him the most as a writer. The zombie genre? This is where it was born Matheson’s take on the traditional vampire was a direct influence on Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. Where to begin, when the title already says it all? I Am Legend is, itself, legendary it just about revolutionized the horror and sci-fi pop culture landscape. ![]()
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