The final story in volume one of Richard Matheson’s Collected Stories is Long Distance Call. A horror story about a frail, elderly woman who gets strange calls in the middle of the night. At first there is no sound on the other end of the line and then slowly over many days of calls (and… Read more Long Distance Call – Richard Matheson
Month: February 2021
Legion of Plotters – Richard Matheson
Legion of Plotters looks at what drives seemingly senseless crime. The insanity that slow drives an otherwise uninteresting person to create some kind of mayhem. I think it’s a fairly decent look at the kind of crazed mindset that makes someone flip out. I think it may even explain the q-anon phenomenon. Legion of Plotters… Read more Legion of Plotters – Richard Matheson
Lazarus II – Richard Matheson
Lazarus II, is a story about someone coming back from the dead. It’s rarely a good thing to come back from the dead. There’s always a catch . This story is kind of interesting in that the person who dead killed himself because he couldn’t handle the responsibilities and control of his mother. His mother… Read more Lazarus II – Richard Matheson
The Last Day – Richard Matheson
The Last Day is a tale about the last day before the earth is consumed by the sun. It’s not a happy story, but it does have kind of a bittersweet ending. It’s hard to write something positive when everyone is going to die at the end. The story is an examination of what would… Read more The Last Day – Richard Matheson
To Fit the Crime – Richard Matheson
To Fit the Crime is the story of what a suitable punishment for the crime might be to spend an eternity in Hell. Iverson Lord is kind of an ass and treats everyone around him terribly, because he thinks he’s better than everyone else, because he is a celebrated poet with a magical gift for… Read more To Fit the Crime – Richard Matheson
SRL Ad – Richard Matheson
With the last week and a half lost to the blizzard, I’ve decided I’m going to write a bunch of blog entries about the Richard Matheson stories for the rest of the month. About two to three a day. Starting with SRL Ad. This is an interesting piece, because it explores the dating scene from… Read more SRL Ad – Richard Matheson
What A Week – Snow and Lost Power
Sunday night, the 14th, there was a snowstorm in Texas. There was a least four to six inches of snow, which is a lot for a place that never gets snow. The power went out until Thursday and then we lost water for three days, It’s been an awful week. But then when power and… Read more What A Week – Snow and Lost Power
Sun of Grey – Outerworld
Sun of Grey, Outerworld, is really riff heavy Doom Metal. I feel like I’m not saying enough about it, but the whole album is great. Lucifer Smiled has a great booming sound and is probably my favorite track. The last couple of days have been very busy for me. And the weather has been cold.… Read more Sun of Grey – Outerworld
John Carpenter – Lost Themes III
Lost Themes III, and I have to assume Lost Themes I and II, is a collection of songs from acclaimed Director and musician John Carpenter that work as themes to movies that don’t exist. They sound so much like film themes that I can practically see the movies that they are representing. I think Weeping… Read more John Carpenter – Lost Themes III
Shipshape Home – Richard Matheson
Shipshape Home is an interesting story, in that the story title itself is a pun on the saying of a shipshape home being a well ordered home and the home in question being a space ship. The story begins with a married couple having a bit of a quarrel since the wife thinks something untoward… Read more Shipshape Home – Richard Matheson