Backteria

Backteria Synopsis

An essential collection of rare tales of terror from the multi-award-winning Twilight Zone scripter and I Am Legend authoronly available in ebook format. A researcher encounters an exotic new strain of ';Backteria' that causes the infected person to vanishleading 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 1/2', ';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 just has the special knack, the deft skill to imagine terrifying scenarios on any scale, large and small, and give them chilling possibility.' Los Angeles Times

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