![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, I dunno, it seems more gimmicky than powerful. In the '80s I found it quite striking, and the title is more metaphor than literal. My first experience with him was in 1986's Cutting Edge, which included "Vampire." It's just two pages of: ![]() Was young and had a background in television (you know-so modern) and palled around with Skipp, Spector, Schow, et. For a short while he was aligned with the splatterpunks, mostly because he During an era in which horror showed a tendency to bloat and stuffing, some editors and readers found Matheson's pared-down work refreshing, while still maintaining edge and bite. While his name alone could have gotten him published, Matheson garnered much attention in the field on his own skill for stripping his stories to the absolute bone, with some consisting solely of one-word sentences or very nearly that. Grant, Dennis Etchison, and Stuart David Schiff. Long before Joe Hill made horror a family tradition, Richard Christian Matheson was born of legendary Richard Matheson and began cranking out short-short genre fiction that appeared in The Twilight Zone and Night Crymagazines and 1980s anthologies edited by Charles L. ![]()
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