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I Am Legend and Other Stories

By: Richard Matheson
Narrated by: Robertson Dean, Yuri Rasovsky
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Publisher's summary

In Matheson's vampire classic I Am Legend, a plague has decimated the world and transformed the unfortunate survivors into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth. Every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire 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 the dawn. How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?

This recording also includes a sampling of other horror stories by Richard Matheson, some comic, all scary: "Buried Talents", "The Near Departed", "Prey", "Witch War", "Dance of the Dead", "Dress of White Silk", "Mad House", "The Funeral", "From Shadowed Places", and "Person to Person".

©1954 renewed 1982 by Richard Matheson. “Buried Talents” © 1987 by Richard Matheson. “The Near Departed” © 1987 by Richard Matheson. “Prey” © 1969 by Richard Matheson. “Witch War” © 1951, renewed 1979 by Richard Matheson. “Dance of the Dead” © 1954, renewed 1982 by Richard Matheson. “Dress of White Silk” © 1951, renewed 1979 by Richard Matheson. “Mad House” © 1952, renewed 1980 by Richard Matheson. “The Funeral” © 1955, renewed 1983 by Richard Matheson. “From Shadowed Places” © 1960, renewed 1988 by Richard Matheson. “Person to Person” © 1989 by Richard Matheson (P)2007 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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I am Legend is great, the rest is mediocre

I am Legend was thrilling, but some of the short stories were a struggle to finish

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great story

Scott Brick is great! the other stories after I am Legend have a different narrator, I could not finish those stories.

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Great story, better performance

The narrator for this story is just incredible. The way he talks and depicts Robert’s descent into madness is amazing

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1 story, 1 narrator

Only download for “I am Legend.” It’s the best story out of the group as well as best performed. The 2nd narrator takes over for the following stories and it is nowhere near the same caliber of of performance.

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Awesome

Matheson was a stupendous author, and it's been a while since I read these stories. So there were a few surprises. Performance was soooooo good with the different voices he made. Perfect!

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Classic but needed some help.

This is a classic listen just don't expect too much. Or be a fan and blindly love it. I hated the short stories after the book.

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Loved it!

I Am Legend was amazing! I absolutely loved it. It was nothing like the movie. The book is far better. It’s like the movie cut out everything that made the story great!
The other stories, I didn’t even understand. I Am Legend made the book worth while.

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Should be two books

Most of the stories are great, some are just meh. My real problem with this book is the narration. The first part "I am Legend" is done very well. The rest of the book is done by someone else, and the voice is just boring. No inflection, no interest, just reading the stories. There is not even any break between stories, so sometimes you find yourself wondering if it's a new story or still the previous one. Worth getting, but be prepared to struggle listening to the short stories.

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Ugggg narrator voices

Every character voice sounds like an old fat alcoholic woman with a lifetime 2 pack per day smoking habit. Which is unfortunate because his normal reading voice is perfectly fine.

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I AM Legend

As others have already stated this book (I Am Legend) is fantastic. It truly is classic and I highly recommend listening here because the narration is superb. However, stop the book after I Am Legend lest your ears be burned by the remaining short stories tacked onto this story.

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