![]() ![]() Initially it is shrugged off as overwork. All seems well, until afterwards Tom begins to imagine a presence in his house, later believed to be ex-resident Anne Driscoll, waking him up at night. Whilst at a neighbour’s dinner party, Tom is persuaded to be hypnotised as part of a joke. Tom Wallace is a typical middle-class suburbanite from the 1950’s, working in Publications at the North American Aircraft factory in Inglewood, California, renting a nice house with his pregnant wife Anne and young child Richard. ![]() So ‘Bravo!’ to Tor for re-releasing it.Īs might be befitting an older novel, the story’s fairly straightforward. But the actual book hasn’t been around here in the UK for a long while – I make it nearly fifteen years. Like those, this book has also been made into a movie, released in 1999 and starring Kevin Bacon (as A Stir of Echoes). Of these, I am Legend (which I reviewed HERE just before it was released as a Will Smith movie), or for those a bit longer in the tooth, The Incredible Shrinking Man are probably the best known two, though there are others. ![]() Why isn’t Richard Matheson better known and more read in the UK? If any of his books are known, it is more because of the movies of his novels, rather than the books themselves. Published by TOR UK, September 2013 (Review copy received) ![]()
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