![]() However, both had drastic changes to the story and not even the first and most faithful adaptation of the novel, the 1964 Vincent Price film The Last Man on Earth, truly captured the full breadth of the book or the vampiric element to the story. I Am Legend is a 1954 post-apocalyptic horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson that was influential in the modern development of zombie and vampire. ![]() This novel has been made into film three times, most recently as the 2007 Will Smith film, I Am Legend, and the 1971 Charlton Heston film, The Omega Man. You may find yourself wondering how you would survive in Neville’s placeĪnd Matheson does a great job of setting the stakes (pun intended) of Neville’s Scary moments and surprises through to the end. There is a lot of introspective character development mixed with ( Fangoria) The most clever and riveting vampire novel since. One of the ten all-time best novels of vampirism. Looking for supplies, and answers to his immunity to the disease. Narrated by: Robertson Dean Critic Reviews. This novel is equal parts, horror novel, political commentary,Īnd detective tale, as Neville traverses the remnants of the American dream, I Am Legend is the best Science Fiction novel ever written about vampires and the whole notion of surviving the end of the world. When the vampires stay away from the sun and lie inactive, Robert Neville scavenges through the abandoned marts and malls of Los Angeles for essential supplies. ![]() Home and travels only by day, as each night his house is besieged by theīlood-thirsty population of his town, trying to break in. Richard Matheson’s classic 1954 horror and science fiction book, ‘I Am Legend,’ is the originator of many science fictions and horror genres. Survivor of a pandemic that has turned the Earth’s human population into In I Am Legend, Matheson shows us Robert Neville, a lone ![]()
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