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Richard Matheson: the Author Stephen King Wishes He Was
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Episode Richard Matheson: the Author Stephen King Wishes He Was
From short pulp fiction to Hollywood screenplay machine, we discuss the career of Richard Matheson. He wrote 10% of the total episodes of Twilight Zone, invented the zombie genre, and got Steven Spielberg his start. Not bad for a working class typewriter jockey. Listen and learn how Matheson influenced Stephen King and even surpasses King as a top notch horror, speculative fiction, and weird fiction author. Buy books mentioned here: Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Charles Beaumont, Dean Wesley Smith’s Writing Into the Dark.
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