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Richard Matheson 7 Steps to Midnight
Tor Books 1995 0812550579 / 9780812550573 MM Very Good
0812550579 0812550579 From Kirkus Reviews A legend of horror returns to the field after 15 years--and stumbles. Matheson's first occult novel since What Dreams May Come (1978) finds the author of I Am Legend and The Incredible Shrinking Man mining the same vein of altered reality that inspired his classic Twilight Zone and Star Trek scripts--but this new story, about a mathematician who gets enmeshed in a surreal spy scenario, offers mostly fool's gold. Government math-man Chris Barton leaves his office to find his blue Mustang missing--though the parking attendant swears that no such car has left the lot. Driving home in a borrowed car, Chris picks up a hitchhiker who ventures a wager: ``the security of your existence against your assumption that you know what's real and what's unreal in your life.'' Chris accepts--and finds in his house a stranger who claims to be Chris Barton and who calls in a threatening cop when Chris objects. Seriously confused, Chris hides in a motel and is accosted by the two men from his house--and, in self-defense, kills one. Desperate, the fugitive calls an old friend who sends him a ticket to London. But there awaits even greater mystery, involving attempts on Chris's life; spys galore; a woman who may be the ghost of a Roman aristocrat; a mystical, street-smart Indian; a mysterious microdot; and much talk of ``reality slippage''--with all this nearly arbitrary mayhem explained away in an absurdly far-fetched premise relating to Chris's top-secret math work. The model for this kind of fantastic suspense is G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday--but where Chesterton rent reality toward an inexorable climax, Matheson piles on the weirdness willy-nilly, albeit quickly and slickly. (Believe-it-or- not fans should note that, in what may be a dad-and-son first, the author's offspring, Richard Christian Matheson, is also publishing a September thriller, Created By, p. 808.) -- Copyright ?1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review "The author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson."-Stephen King "Matheson is the master of paranoia-pitting a single man against unknown horrors and examining his every slow twist in the wind. 7 Steps is a book to be devoured in one long swallow."-San Jose Mercury News "Richard Matheson is one of the great names in American terror fiction. 7 Steps to Midnight commands attention. . . . The pace is as frantic as anything since the days of Sax Rohmer-but the writing is fortunately up to Matheson's high standards. This is a novel that flies across the page."-The Philadelphia Inquirer -- Review --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Richard Matheson A Stir of Echoes
Tor Books 1999 0812572122 / 9780812572124 MM Very Good
0812572122 0812572122 Review Wallace, who works in Publications of the North American Aircraft plant, near Los Angeles, heckles hypnotizing, finds he is susceptible and becomes the channel through which his neighbors' emotions and the secret of his house assume domination. Prescience, sensitive telepathy, and a sense of possession gnaw at his marriage; the haunting of a murder done and one to come lead him to apprehend a killer no saner than his experiences. A teaser which has more possibilities than performance. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review "One of the most important writers of the twentieth century."--Ray Bradbury "Matheson is one of the great names in American terror fiction."-The Philadelphia Inquirer "Matheson inspires, it's as simple as that."-Brian Lumley --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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