
Richard Christian Matheson
Writer, Actor, Producer
October 14, 1953 (72 years)
Richard Christian Matheson is an American writer of horror fiction and screenplays. He is the author of over 100 short stories of psychological horror and magic realism which are gathered in over 150 major anthologies and in his critically hailed hardcover short story collections Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks, Amazon #1 bestseller Dystopia and Zoopraxis. He is the author of the suspense novel Created By and Hollywood novella of magic realism The Ritual of Illusion, and was the editor of the commemorative book Stephen King's Battleground Matheson also adapted the short story which was made into an iconic episode of the TNT series Nightmares and Dreamscapes and won two Emmys.
Known For
Filmography
| 2018 | Nightmare Cinema · as Screenplay |
| 2014 | |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | |
| 2006 | Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King · as Screenplay |
| 2005 | Masters of HorrorOn Plex |
| 2005 | |
| 2004 | |
| 2000 | Sole Survivor · as Screenplay |
| 1993 | |
| 1991 | |
| 1990 | |
| 1989 | Tales from the Crypt · as Screenplay |
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| 1987 | |
| 1985 | |
| 1984 | HunterOn Plex |
| 1983 | |
| 1983 | |
| 1982 | |
| 1982 | |
| 1980 | |
| 1977 |
| 1997 | The Shining · as Hitman #1 |
| 2010 | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy · as Self |
| 2025 | The Shrinking Man · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Chemistry · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Paradise · as Executive Producer |
| 1993 | Full Eclipse · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Big Driver · as Co-Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Big Driver · as Teleplay |
| 2014 | Happy Face Killer · as Story |
| 2011 | Chemistry · as Created By |
| 2006 | The Damned Thing · as Teleplay |
| 2005 | Dance of the Dead · as Teleplay |
| 2005 | It Waits · as Co-Executive Producer |
| 2005 | It Waits · as Story |
| 1991 | The Torkelsons · as Supervising Producer |
| 1991 | The Torkelsons · as Written By |
| 1979 | The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo · as Story By |
| 1979 | Stop Susan Williams · as Written By |
| 1978 | B.J. and the Bear · as Teleplay By |
| 1976 | Three's Company · as Story By |



















