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NEW and still sealed in the original box,72 of295 of Folio Society Limited Edition - I AM LEGEND by Richard Matheson This special Folio edition stands as a spectacular visualisation of Richard Matheson?s masterpiece. Limited to just 295 copies, each volume comes with an exclusive print signed by Dave McKean. Bound in black leather and blocked in red with a design by the artist, this edition also features red page edges, and a cloth slipcase printed with a harrowing design by McKean. The interior features McKean?s artwork throughout, while the black and red foil-blocked ?red blood cell? endpaper design is inspired by one of the interior illustrations. Acclaimed novelist Joe Hill has written an insightful and warm introduction, examining how Matheson set out to ?build a better vampire?, and in doing so opened the door to a new world of horror. Robert Neville is a man alone in a world of monsters. Each day, he works to exterminate the vampire threat, and every night he listens to them howl for his blood. It?s a desperate fight for survival, one he cannot afford to lose, but as his world grows strange and distorted, a darker question emerges: who is the real monster here? It is hard to calculate the impact of Richard Matheson?s thrill-ride of a novel. Influencing horror masters such as Stephen King and George A. Romero, I Am Legend took the gothic and shadowy world of the vampire and dragged it into the light. One of the first writers to popularise a post-apocalyptic world, Matheson started a trend of stories that look to examine the consequences of survival at any cost. The influence of this desperate landscape can be felt across the full breadth of modern media, from comic books and video games, to the current wave of zombie films and Cormac McCarthy?s The Road. A prolific writer with an affinity for television and film, many of Matheson?s stories have made it to the big screen, including his screenplay for Duel, Steven Spielberg?s first film, while I Am Legend itself has been adapted four times for the cinema. Production Details:- ? Limited to 295 hand-numbered copies ? Illustrated by Dave McKean ? Introduced by Joe Hill ? Bound in blocked leather with a design by the artist ? Printed on Abbey Pure Rough paper ? Red coloured page edges ? Set in Aldus ? 208 pages ? Frontispiece and 6 colour illustrations ? 4 integrated black and white illustrations for the part-titles and illustrated headings throughout ? Metallic foil blocked endpapers ? Signed limited print in paper folder ? Printed cloth slipcase ? Book size: 10? x 5�?.

I Am Legend is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson, first published in 1954. It was influential in the development of the zombie-vampire genre and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease.