An essential collection of rare tales of terror from the multi-award-winning Twilight Zone scripter and I Am Legend author?only available in ebook format. A researcher encounters an exotic new strain of ?Backteria? that causes the infected person to vanish?leading the doctor on a path of discovery deep into a past he should have left buried. A simple ?Haircut? that starts off as a routine trim becomes a dark and terrifying experience when a barber is confronted with a sick customer who seems otherworldly. A case of mistaken identity leads to a darkly farcical story of marriage, murder, and a love that knows no bounds in ?Getting Together.? Backteria & Other Improbable Tales gathers these and sixteen more uncanny short stories from master storyteller Richard Matheson, ?one of the great names in American terror fiction? (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Stories include: ?Backteria?, ?He Wanted to Live?, ?Life Size?, ?Man with a Club?, ?Professor Fritz and the Runaway House?, ?Purge Among Peanuts?, ?The Prisoner?, ?The Last Blah in the ETC?, ?Counterfeit Bills?, ?1984 ½?, ?Pride?, ?Now Die In It?, ?Leo Rising?, ?Where There?s a Will? (written with Richard Christian Matheson), ?Getting Together?, ?Person to Person?, ?CU: Mannix?, ?Haircut?, ?An Element Never Forgets? ?The author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson.? ?Stephen King ?Perhaps no other living author is as responsible for chilling a generation with tantalizing nightmare visions.? ?The New York Times ?Matheson?s a writer who just has the special knack, the deft skill to imagine terrifying scenarios on any scale, large and small, and give them chilling possibility.? ?Los Angeles Times