Disappearing Act is a story about a man who loses himself. His world around him starts to disappear. People he knew cease to exist, until finally he himself disappears. The story is told in diary for and ends mid sentence which is a nice touch
His author’s note is the kind of thing I like to see. An acknowledgment of source material. He got the idea from a different story written about a man going into a restaurant and explaining that he is disappearing. So Matheson wrote the same story from a different perspective. So many writers these days are so scared to have influences. The old writers all seem to love talking about the classics that gave them their ideas.
It is the Twentieth story in Volume One of Matheson’s Collected Stories and published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March 1953.
Trying to finish up volume one’s pieces before finishing two, so going to write a few today.