Richard Christian Matheson

Richard Christian Matheson (born October 14, 1953) is an American writer of horror fiction and screenplays, the son of fiction writer and screenwriter Richard Matheson. He is the author of over 100 short stories of psychological horror and magic realism which are gathered in over 150 major anthologies and in his critically hailed hardcover short story collections ''Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks'', Amazon #1 bestseller ''Dystopia,'' and ''Zoopraxis''. He is the author of the suspense novel '' Created By.'' He also authored a magical realism novella set in Hollywood titled ''The Ritual of Illusion'', and was the editor of the commemorative book Stephen King's ''Battleground''. Matheson also adapted the short story which was made into an iconic episode of the TNT series '' Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King'' and won two Emmys.

He wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for ''Three O'Clock High'', ''Full Eclipse'', ''It Takes Two'', ''Loose Cannons'' ''Shifter'', ''Midvale'' ''The Nature of Evil'' (co-written with his father Richard Matheson), ''Paradise'', ''It Waits'', ''Happy Face Killer'', ''Voices of Midway'', "≤Red Sleep", "Hooky", Dean Koontz's ''Soul Survivor'' as a 4-hour mini series, three ''Masters of Horror'' episodes, Stephen King's ''Big Driver'', and ''Nightmare Cinema''. He wrote for the magazines ''Amazing Stories'' and ''Tales From The Crypt'' among the others, and he is the author of the miniseries ''Nightmares & Dreamscapes'' and adapted as four-hour miniseries H. G. Wells' ''The Time Machine'', Roger Zelazny's '' The Chronicles of Amber'' and Whitley Strieber's ''Majestic''. Matheson also wrote comedy and drama pilots for major studios and networks. He co-created, co-executive produced and co-wrote all thirteen episodes of the Cinemax series ''Chemistry''. He has been executive story consultant, supervising producer and executive producer for network television series. He is also the co-executive producer of the films ''Cub'', ''It Waits'', ''Paradise'', ''Full Eclipse'' and ''Big Driver''.

Selected filmography

See also

* List of horror fiction authors
* Splatterpunk

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Matheson, Richard Christian
1953 births
Living people
20th-century American screenwriters
21st-century American screenwriters
20th-century American short story writers
20th-century American novelists
American horror writers
American television writers
Splatterpunk
Richard Matheson
Place of birth missing (living people)
American people of Norwegian descent
21st-century American male writers