Neville is essentially the last man on earth, and the loneliness of his situation is the central part of the story. Matheson is able to communicate Neville's emotional feelings vividly, making him very real. We gradually acquire the story of the deaths of Neville's wife and daughter, essentially experiencing the pain he goes through when these memories overcome him. We watch him drink himself into a stupor as each night finds him besieged in his fortified house, surrounded by vampires, including his old friend and neighbor, calling for him to come out. We watch him slowly lose his grip on sanity and come very close to giving up.
year: 2007, 1997, 1995, 1954, 1970, 2019
call number/section: 1000
subjects: vampires, fiction, horror fiction, horror tales, horror stories, horror, general, media tie-in, fiction, horror, horror fiction, science fiction, fiction
Editions
Matheson, Richard
Tor (2007)
Robert Neville, the last living man on an Earth in which every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, struggles to survive, scavenging for food and supplies and desperately searching for other survivors and trying to avoid the evil that lurks in the shadows. Includes ten additional short horror stories.
Schools: 5
Matheson, Richard
ORB (1997)
Presents the complete novel, "I Am Legend, " about Robert Neville, the last living man on an Earth in which every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire; and includes ten additional short horror stories.
Schools: 9
Matheson, Richard
Tor (1995)
Robert Neville, the last living man on an Earth in which every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, struggles to survive, scavenging for food and supplies and desperately searching for other survivors and trying to avoid the evil that lurks in the shadows. Includes ten additional short horror stories.
Schools: 2
Matheson, Richard
Buccaneer Books (1954)
Robert Neville, the last living man on an Earth in which every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, struggles to survive, scavenging for food and supplies and desperately searching for other survivors and trying to avoid the evil that lurks in the shadows.
Schools: 2
Matheson, Richard
Walker (1970)
Sole survivor of a dreadful plague which ravaged the earth in 1970 struggles to discover the key to man's salvation.
Schools: 0
Matheson, Richard
Neville is essentially the last man on earth, and the loneliness of his situation is the central part of the story. Matheson is able to communicate Neville's emotional feelings vividly, making him very real. We gradually acquire the story of the deaths of Neville's wife and daughter, essentially experiencing the pain he goes through when these memories overcome him. We watch him drink himself into a stupor as each night finds him besieged in his fortified house, surrounded by vampires, including his old friend and neighbor, calling for him to come out. We watch him slowly lose his grip on sanity and come very close to giving up.
Schools: 2
Matheson, Richard
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book (2019)
Robert Neville, the last living man on an Earth in which every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, struggles to survive, scavenging for food and supplies and desperately searching for other survivors and trying to avoid the evil that lurks in the shadows. Includes ten additional short horror stories.
Schools: 1