Fiction. Horror. Science Fiction. Short Stories. HTML:An essential collection of rare tales of terror from the multi-award-winning Twilight Zone scripter and I Am Legend author�??only available in ebook format.
 
A researcher encounters an exotic new strain of �??Backteria�?� that causes the infected person to vanish�??leading the doctor on a path of discovery deep into a past he should have left buried.
 
A simple �??Haircut�?� that starts off as a routine trim becomes a dark and terrifying experience when a barber is confronted with a sick customer who seems otherworldly.
 
A case of mistaken identity leads to a darkly farcical story of marriage, murder, and a love that knows no bounds in �??Getting Together.�?�
 
Backteria & Other Improbable Tales gathers these and sixteen more uncanny short stories from master storyteller Richard Matheson, �??one of the great names in American terror fiction�?� (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
 
Stories include: �??Backteria�?�, �??He Wanted to Live�?�, �??Life Size�?�, �??Man with a Club�?�, �??Professor Fritz and the Runaway House�?�, �??Purge Among Peanuts�?�, �??The Prisoner�?�, �??The Last Blah in the ETC�?�, �??Counterfeit Bills�?�, �??1984 ½�?�, �??Pride�?�, �??Now Die In It�?�, �??Leo Rising�?�, �??Where There�??s a Will�?� (written with Richard Christian Matheson), �??Getting Together�?�, �??Person to Person�?�, �??CU: Mannix�?�, �??Haircut�?�, �??An Element Never Forgets�?�
 
�??The author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson.�?� �??Stephen King
 
�??Perhaps no other living author is as responsible for chilling a generation with tantalizing nightmare visions.�?� �??The New York Times
 
�??Matheson�??s a writer who