In Matheson’s vampire traditional I Am Tale, a plague has decimated the world, and changed the regrettable survivors into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville may be the last living man on earth. Almost every other guy, woman, and child has turned into a vampire, hungry for Neville’s blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the forgotten ruins of civilization. By evening, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How lengthy can one man survive in a world of vampires?

This recording also contains 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 “Individual to individual.”