I Am Legend: And Other Stories

The New York Times bestselling classic tale of the last man on Earth, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson--one of genre literature's most honored storytellers.

Now a major motion picture starring Will Smith!Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone.

Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville' s blood.By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization.

By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.How long can one man survive in a world of vampires? Read more Amazon.com Review One of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century, I Am Legend regularly appears on the "10 Best" lists of numerous critical studies of the horror genre.

As Richard Matheson's third novel, it was first marketed as science fiction (for although written in 1954, the story takes place in a future 1976).

A terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive have been transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night.

Except, that is, for Robert Neville.

He alone appears to be immune to this disease, but the grim irony is that now he is the outsider.