Bloodlines: Richard Matheson's Dracula, I Am Legend And Other Vampire Stories

by Richard Matheson

Edited by Mark Dawidziak (The Kolchak Scripts), this book contains both the novel and screenplay for I Am Legend (there has never been a Lettered edition of the book). Matheson's script was purchased by Hammer Films in the U.K. in the sixties, but the British Censor Board called for two pages or revisions due to "gruesomeness", which Matheson would not make. We'll reprint the letter with the script. This is Matheson's vision of his classic novel, which is far better than the two films that don't come close to doing justice to the book.

Matheson was also the first to write a Dracula script based on the Bram Stoker novel. Filmed in 1974 for television by the late Dan Curtis (starring Jack Palance), we have both Matheson's screen treatment and script. This is another oversized 8 ½ x 11 book with the Dracula script presented as Matheson typed it, with many handwritten corrections and changes.

Hardcover Gauntlet Pr. (December 2006)