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Richard Matheson Books in Order

Find every Richard Matheson book in order, including standalone titles and complete series reading orders with publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 86 books / 7 series

American author best known for *I Am Legend* and *The Shrinking Man*. His work has sold millions worldwide, earning a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. This page provides the Richard Matheson books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

All Richard Matheson Books in Chronological Order

1951 Through Channels POoSS / 1 Buy
1951 Dress of White Silk POoSS / 3 Buy
1951 Witch War POoSS / 4 Buy
1951 Blood Son / Drink My Blood / Drink My Red Blood POoSS / 5 Buy
1953 Someone is Bleeding POoSN / 1 Buy
1953 Fury on Sunday POoSN / 2 Buy
1953 Slaughter House POoSS / 6 Buy
1953 Wet Straw POoSS / 7 Buy
1953 Disappearing Act POoSS / 8 Buy
1953 Legion of Plotters POoSS / 9 Buy
1953 Mad House POoSS / 10 Buy
1954 Born Of Man And Woman POoSSC / 1 Buy
1954 Third From The Sun: Tales Of Science Fiction And Fantasy POoSSC / 2 Buy
1954 Woman / Third from the Sun / Born of Man POoSN / 3 Buy
1954 I Am Legend / The Omega Man POoSN / 4 Buy
1954 Dance of the Dead POoSS / 11 Buy
1956 The Incredible Shrinking Man / The Shrinking Man POoSN / 5 Buy
1957 The Shores Of Space POoSSC / 3 Buy
1957 Old Haunts POoSS / 12 Buy
1957 The Holiday Man POoSS / 14 Buy
1958 A Stir of Echoes POoSN / 6 Buy
1958 The Distributor POoSS / 15 Buy
1959 Ride the Nightmare POoSN / 7 Buy
1960 The Beardless Warriors of World War II POoSN / 8 Buy
1960 First Anniversary POoSS / 16 Buy
1961 Nightmare At 20,000 Feet POoSSC / 4 Buy
1961 Shock!: Thirteen Tales To Thrill And Terrify POoSSC / 5 Buy
1962 The Likeness of Julie POoSS / 17 Buy
1964 Shock Ii: Thirteen Tales To Haunt The Imagination POoSSC / 6 Buy
1964 Comedy of Terrors POoSN / 9 Buy
1966 Shock Iii POoSSC / 7 Buy
1970 Shock Waves POoSSC / 8 Buy
1971 Duel POoSSC / 9 Buy
1971 Hell House POoSN / 10 Buy
1973 The Night Stalker POoSN / 11 Buy
1974 The Night Strangler POoSN / 12 Buy
1975 Somewhere In Time / Bid Time Return POoSN / 13 Buy
1978 What Dreams May Come POoSN / 14 Buy
1982 Earthbound POoSN / 15 Buy
1987 Volume I: The Color of Evil POoTDDB / 1 Buy
1989 Collected Stories, Vol. 1 POoSSC / 10 Buy
1990 Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield POoTDDB / 2 Buy
1991 Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness POoTDDB / 3 Buy
1991 Journal of the Gun Years POoSN / 16 Buy
1992 An Exploration of Horror: Foundations of Fear(With: George R.R. Martin,Robert A. Heinlein,David G. Hartwell,Peter Straub,Daphne du Maurier,Clive Barker,Carlos Fuentes,Arthur Machen,Gerald Durrell) POoFoFAB / 1 Buy
1993 The Path POoNB / 1 Buy
1993 The Gun Fight POoSN / 17 Buy
1993 7 Steps to Midnight POoSN / 18 Buy
1994 Foundations of Fear: Volume I: Shadows of Fear(By: Robert A. Heinlein,David G. Hartwell,Peter Straub,H.P. Lovecraft,Daphne du Maurier,Arthur Machen,Jean Ray,Harriet Prescott Spofford) POoFoFAB / 2 Buy
1994 Foundations of Fear: Volume II: Worlds of Fear(By: George R.R. Martin,David G. Hartwell,Thomas Hardy,Gertrude Atherton,Thomas M. Disch,Elizabeth Engstrom,Carlos Fuentes) POoFoFAB / 3 Buy
1994 Foundations of Fear: Volume III: Visions of Fear(With: David G. Hartwell,E.T.A. Hoffmann,Philip K. Dick,Clive Barker,Octavia E. Butler,Gerald Durrell) POoFoFAB / 4 Buy
1994 By The Gun POoSSC / 11 Buy
1994 Shadow on the Sun POoSN / 19 Buy
1995 Now You See It... POoSN / 20 Buy
1996 The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok POoSN / 21 Buy
1998 The Twilight Zone Scripts POoSSC / 12 Buy
2000 Mediums Rare POoNB / 2 Buy
2000 Passion Play POoSN / 22 Buy
2000 Hunger and Thirst POoSN / 23 Buy
2001 Camp Pleasant POoSN / 24 Buy
2002 A Primer of Reality POoNB / 3 Buy
2002 Pride(With: Richard Christian Matheson) POoSS / 18 Buy
2002 Hunted Past Reason POoSN / 25 Buy
2002 Abu and the 7 Marvels(With: William Stout) POoSN / 26 Buy
2003 Kolchak Scripts POoSSC / 13 Buy
2003 Come Fygures, Come Shadowes POoSN / 27 Buy
2004 Darker Places POoSSC / 14 Buy
2005 Collected Stories, Vol. 2 POoSSC / 15 Buy
2005 Collected Stories, Vol. 3 POoSSC / 16 Buy
2005 Unrealized Dreams POoSSC / 17 Buy
2006 Bloodlines POoSSC / 18 Buy
2006 The Link POoSN / 28 Buy
2007 Completely Doomed POoGN / 1 Buy
2007 The Richard Matheson Companion POoNB / 4 Buy
2007 Button, Button: Uncanny Stories POoSSC / 19 Buy
2007 Visions Of Death: Richard Matheson's Edgar Allan Poe Scripts, Vol. 1 POoSSC / 20 Buy
2008 The Box POoSSC / 21 Buy
2009 Visions Deferred POoSSC / 22 Buy
2011 Richard Matheson Uncollected: Backteria And Other Improbable Tales POoSSC / 23 Buy
2011 Steel And Other Stories POoSSC / 24 Buy
2011 Other Kingdoms POoSN / 29 Buy
2012 Road Rage(With: Stephen King,Joe Hill,Chris Ryall) POoSSC / 25 Buy
2012 Generations POoSN / 30 Buy
2013 Leave Yesterday Alone POoSN / 31 Buy
2017 The Best Of Richard Matheson POoSSC / 26 Buy
2020 Off Beat: Uncollected Stories POoSSC / 27 Buy

Richard Matheson Book Series Reading Orders / browse all ->

01 Completely Doomed 2007 Buy
01 Volume I: The Color of Evil 1987 Buy
02 Volume II: The Medusa In The Shield 1990 Buy
03 Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness 1991 Buy
01 An Exploration of Horror: Foundations of Fear(With: George R.R. Martin,Robert A. Heinlein,David G. Hartwell,Peter Straub,Daphne du Maurier,Clive Barker,Carlos Fuentes,Arthur Machen,Gerald Durrell) 1992 Buy
02 Foundations of Fear: Volume I: Shadows of Fear(By: Robert A. Heinlein,David G. Hartwell,Peter Straub,H.P. Lovecraft,Daphne du Maurier,Arthur Machen,Jean Ray,Harriet Prescott Spofford) 1994 Buy
03 Foundations of Fear: Volume II: Worlds of Fear(By: George R.R. Martin,David G. Hartwell,Thomas Hardy,Gertrude Atherton,Thomas M. Disch,Elizabeth Engstrom,Carlos Fuentes) 1994 Buy
04 Foundations of Fear: Volume III: Visions of Fear(With: David G. Hartwell,E.T.A. Hoffmann,Philip K. Dick,Clive Barker,Octavia E. Butler,Gerald Durrell) 1994 Buy
01 Born Of Man And Woman 1954 Buy
02 Third From The Sun: Tales Of Science Fiction And Fantasy 1954 Buy
03 The Shores Of Space 1957 Buy
04 Nightmare At 20,000 Feet 1961 Buy
05 Shock!: Thirteen Tales To Thrill And Terrify 1961 Buy
06 Shock Ii: Thirteen Tales To Haunt The Imagination 1964 Buy
07 Shock Iii 1966 Buy
08 Shock Waves 1970 Buy
09 Duel 1971 Buy
10 Collected Stories, Vol. 1 1989 Buy
11 By The Gun 1994 Buy
12 The Twilight Zone Scripts 1998 Buy
13 Kolchak Scripts 2003 Buy
14 Darker Places 2004 Buy
15 Collected Stories, Vol. 2 2005 Buy
16 Collected Stories, Vol. 3 2005 Buy
17 Unrealized Dreams 2005 Buy
18 Bloodlines 2006 Buy
19 Button, Button: Uncanny Stories 2007 Buy
20 Visions Of Death: Richard Matheson's Edgar Allan Poe Scripts, Vol. 1 2007 Buy
21 The Box 2008 Buy
22 Visions Deferred 2009 Buy
23 Richard Matheson Uncollected: Backteria And Other Improbable Tales 2011 Buy
24 Steel And Other Stories 2011 Buy
25 Road Rage(With: Stephen King,Joe Hill,Chris Ryall) 2012 Buy
26 The Best Of Richard Matheson 2017 Buy
27 Off Beat: Uncollected Stories 2020 Buy
01 The Path 1993 Buy
02 Mediums Rare 2000 Buy
03 A Primer of Reality 2002 Buy
04 The Richard Matheson Companion 2007 Buy
01 Through Channels 1951 Buy
03 Dress of White Silk 1951 Buy
04 Witch War 1951 Buy
05 Blood Son / Drink My Blood / Drink My Red Blood 1951 Buy
06 Slaughter House 1953 Buy
07 Wet Straw 1953 Buy
08 Disappearing Act 1953 Buy
09 Legion of Plotters 1953 Buy
10 Mad House 1953 Buy
11 Dance of the Dead 1954 Buy
12 Old Haunts 1957 Buy
14 The Holiday Man 1957 Buy
15 The Distributor 1958 Buy
16 First Anniversary 1960 Buy
17 The Likeness of Julie 1962 Buy
18 Pride(With: Richard Christian Matheson) 2002 Buy
Standalone Books in Reading Order 31 books / 1953-2013
01 Someone is Bleeding 1953 Buy
02 Fury on Sunday 1953 Buy
03 Woman / Third from the Sun / Born of Man 1954 Buy
04 I Am Legend / The Omega Man 1954 Buy
05 The Incredible Shrinking Man / The Shrinking Man 1956 Buy
06 A Stir of Echoes 1958 Buy
07 Ride the Nightmare 1959 Buy
08 The Beardless Warriors of World War II 1960 Buy
09 Comedy of Terrors 1964 Buy
10 Hell House 1971 Buy
11 The Night Stalker 1973 Buy
12 The Night Strangler 1974 Buy
13 Somewhere In Time / Bid Time Return 1975 Buy
14 What Dreams May Come 1978 Buy
15 Earthbound 1982 Buy
16 Journal of the Gun Years 1991 Buy
17 The Gun Fight 1993 Buy
18 7 Steps to Midnight 1993 Buy
19 Shadow on the Sun 1994 Buy
20 Now You See It... 1995 Buy
21 The Memoirs of Wild Bill Hickok 1996 Buy
22 Passion Play 2000 Buy
23 Hunger and Thirst 2000 Buy
24 Camp Pleasant 2001 Buy
25 Hunted Past Reason 2002 Buy
26 Abu and the 7 Marvels(With: William Stout) 2002 Buy
27 Come Fygures, Come Shadowes 2003 Buy
28 The Link 2006 Buy
29 Other Kingdoms 2011 Buy
30 Generations 2012 Buy
31 Leave Yesterday Alone 2013 Buy

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Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.

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