The best author of SF/horror short stories in the second half of the 20th century? Richard Matheson

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  • Опубликовано: 9 янв 2025

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  • @Kikilang60
    @Kikilang60 2 года назад +6

    Richerd Matheson was the master of the Anthologies. For a time, an anthology could not be printed without a Matheson short story. We had these Scholastic magazine as young students, and they had "Born of Man and Woman" in the magazine. Our teacher thought the story was ill suited for children. Our school's library had had numerous anthologies with the better pulp stories in them. That's were I read "The Monkey's Paw", and "A voice in the Fog." As young child you could read Richerd Matheson, Shirly Jackson, Fritz leiber, Saki. Then something happened, and everyone was reading Goose Bumps.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      Saki is an author I need to revisit. I read a collection of his as a teenager and really liked it.

  • @Lydioski
    @Lydioski 2 года назад +5

    Definitely, I will read Matheson as soon as possible. I like to read short stories. I recommended to you Daphné Du Maurier, “Don't look now”, very good, you will like her. She also wrote “The Birds”, Hitchcock did the movie based on her story. Cortazar is a good short stories' writer, playing with the fantastic, strange and mystery. By the way, I started to read “The Terror”, that you recommended some weeks ago and… I love it! Have a good day and I wish you a good new year!

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      So glad you’re enjoying the Terror!
      I need to read Du Maurier, I still haven’t tried anything by her. Thank you!

  • @mikaelagirard
    @mikaelagirard 2 года назад +2

    Hah that thumbnail made me smile so hard. Hilarious! I Am Legend totally blew me away when I first read it. I've always wanted to read more from him. He reminds me a bit of Philip K. Dick, with his short stories that really make you think and have very interesting ideas. Definitely my type of fiction! Thanks for the video!

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      LOL glad you liked the thumbnail! I had fun making it

  • @juanmorales9738
    @juanmorales9738 2 года назад +5

    Button, Button was filmed as The Box, with Cameron Diaz. His novel Hell House was filmed by you Brits as Legend of Hell House. And his book Stir of Echoes was filmed with same title and Kevin Bacon.

  • @johnnythepillpopper1974
    @johnnythepillpopper1974 2 года назад +3

    Clive Barker…Books of Blood
    Joe Hill…..20th century ghost stories
    Peter Straub…..Magic Terror
    Highly recommend these…also Bentley Little..The Collection

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      Yeah I still think the Books of Blood is a towering achievement in modern horror

  • @mediumjohnsilver
    @mediumjohnsilver 2 года назад +5

    I have read Matheson’s collections _Button, Button_ and _Nightmare at 20,000 Feet._ Both are great.
    For other short stories that take an idea and run with it, I recommend science fiction writer Larry Niven. He has some great collections such as _All the Myriad Ways, Neutron Star,_ and _Tales of Known Space._

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад +1

      Thanks! I’ve only read Niven’s bigger stuff so will have to check out the shorts

  • @julianbrooks9922
    @julianbrooks9922 2 года назад +5

    The actor in the film duel that you couldn’t remember is Dennis Weaver. Excellent story and ranks as one of my top films ever. I will explore this author further now

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      Thank you! I really want to rewatch Duel now!

  • @gerhardvanrooyen863
    @gerhardvanrooyen863 2 года назад +1

    Thanks for a really excellent overview of Richard Matheson's work. He is indeed a giant in this field, but there are so many fine authors with splendid collections out there that it becomes a bit of an impossibility to compile a list! I am really in love with the much older type of supernatural / horror stories : people like Algernon Blackwood, John Metcalfe, Oliver Onions, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, E. F. Benson and M.R. James. These guys are always good for a shiver or two. Other favourites include Robert Bloch, Elizabeth Walter and Ray Bradbury. There is one particular multi-author collection that will always remain one of my treasured possessions. Lie Ten Nights Awake was published as a paperback original by Hodder and Stoughton in 1967. The editor was the famous Herbert van Thal. Some of the contributors were William Sansom, John Burke and Anthony Burgess. You are probably very familiar with this book. I've always regarded it as a classic, if only for a truly unsettling story called The Green Boy by Mariana Villa-Gilbert.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      I have read hardly any of those authors! I will need to check them out once I'm off my book buying ban - thanks for the recommendations!

  • @waverlyking6045
    @waverlyking6045 2 года назад +14

    If you like Matheson, read Charles Beaumont. He also contributed a lot of great Twilight Zone episodes.

    • @themiddleplace
      @themiddleplace 2 года назад +2

      Yes love the Beaumont one with the psych patient and the fairground.

    • @Zozette27
      @Zozette27 2 года назад +1

      I liked the Beaumont story ‘Free Dirt’.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад +1

      I’m definitely going to check him out. Thanks for the recommendation!

    • @Zozette27
      @Zozette27 2 года назад +2

      It is a pity that Beaumont got early onset Alzheimer’s at 34 and died of it at 38. I am certain he would have been as big as Matheson and Bradbury if he had lived.

    • @waverlyking6045
      @waverlyking6045 2 года назад +1

      @@Zozette27 I understand death. What I don’t understand is losing your mind and there being nothing you can do about it. It’s especially sad to see it happen to someone as young as Beaumont even though it bothers me to see it happen to someone a hundred years old.

  • @bookssongsandothermagic
    @bookssongsandothermagic 2 года назад +4

    Ahhh this video was such a pleasure to see. Richard Matheson is easily a contender for my favourite writer and I was collecting his short story books when I was a teenager so they’ve been a big part of my life. I need to do my favourite Matheson stories.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад +1

      You should definitely do that video. Cheers, Gareth!

  • @tyler2610
    @tyler2610 2 года назад +2

    Dennis Weaver was the actor in Duel. He was also Chester on Gunsmoke for many years. Duel is one of my all-time favorite films, what a great thrilling story that could actually happen to anyone especially in this day and age.

    • @juanmorales9738
      @juanmorales9738 2 года назад +1

      Dennis Weaver also played McCloud on TV.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      Thank you! It's been so long since I've seen Duel!

    • @tyler2610
      @tyler2610 2 года назад +1

      @@CriminOllyBlog it’s hard to believe it’s over 50 years old now

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      @@tyler2610 gosh yeah I suppose it is! Wow

  • @Paul_Bond.
    @Paul_Bond. 2 года назад +1

    Hi Olly, Button, Button was filmed in 2009 as The Box, by director Richard Kelly most well known for Donnie Darko. Kelly never replicated the success of his first film, Southland Tales was a disaster and The Box was not well received. I Have no idea what he's doing today. it's a shame, Donnie Darko is a wonderful film which he directed when he was only 26 years old.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      I always wondered what else he had made. DD really was a special movie

    • @Paul_Bond.
      @Paul_Bond. 2 года назад +1

      @@CriminOllyBlog Don't bother with the special edition though, the exposition and info dumps really detract from the experience.

  • @helenasf1782
    @helenasf1782 2 года назад +3

    Thanks so much for this review! From the novels I’ve read so far, Matheson is one of my favourite authors but I’ve never read his short stories, so will definitely check these out! I love his writing style. It’s so clear and you’re right it really pulls you in.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад +1

      You're so welcome! He really is great isn’t he

    • @helenasf1782
      @helenasf1782 2 года назад +1

      @@CriminOllyBlog he is! And it’s so nice to him being discussed more!

  • @kerilowman9257
    @kerilowman9257 2 года назад +3

    We read the Button, Button story at school and it left quite an impression! I found it wonderfully morbid. The class had a discussion about what we would have done if we got the button. And also what we thought of the ending and the implication of it.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      I thought the ending of that one was really great!

  • @jimcollins9079
    @jimcollins9079 2 года назад +2

    If your a fan of the Matt Scudder or Amos Walker novels by Lawrence Block and Loren D. Estleman respectively, you'll love their short stories. They really seem to have a grasp of the shorter form of mystery story, which can't be said for everyone. The short story is a difficult thing to master. Of course there's also Hammett and Chandler who started in the pulps and perfected the short story before they published any of their longer novels.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад +1

      I really need to try some Block short stories!

  • @danielsweet858
    @danielsweet858 2 года назад +3

    Excellent choice Olly! Matheson was a wonderful author in every genre he tried. Especially the Westerns. Even won the Spur Award for best novel.👍
    A quite nice man too. Got to meet him in 1993 & we corresponded after that. Couldn't believe someone as famous as he was took time to reply.

  • @themiddleplace
    @themiddleplace 2 года назад +2

    40000 feet was also remade in the forest Whitaker series and the Jordan peele series.

  • @DDB168
    @DDB168 2 года назад +2

    re Duel: Dennis Weaver. He can write in any genre, a sign of a good/great writer I think. I stay away from writers that only write in one genre (eg. Jordan, Sanderson). Those two Westerns are GREAT !! Dont wait until JoTR, read them now !

  • @bobbyq1452
    @bobbyq1452 2 года назад +1

    I love the story, The Near Departed, about the guy who’s coordinating the details of his wife’s funeral with a funeral director. The last line still creeps me out.
    Shadow on the Sun is a great Matheson Horror/Western novel worth checking out.
    And, as far as short story collections, I’ve been recommending Adam Nevill’s Wyrd and Other Derelictions. I’ve never read anything quite like it.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      I really need to read some Adam Nevill! And I've heard great things about Shadow of the Sun!

  • @hairylittlewombat
    @hairylittlewombat 2 года назад +3

    Great review, Olly. I agree, Matheson was an amazing writer. I have just picked up the Penguin edition on Kindle. Can't wait to get into it. One of my favourite short story writers is Roald Dahl. Like Matheson, he's a master of the unexpected. Can I also recommend Dahl's adult novel, My Uncle Oswald (If you haven't already read it). I real departure from his children novels but no less brilliant.

    • @joanthompson5606
      @joanthompson5606 2 года назад +1

      Before I saw your comment I asked Olly about Roald Dahl, too. He's written some good ones for Hitchcock presents. I'd like to hear more about his work for grown-ups. 🤗

    • @hairylittlewombat
      @hairylittlewombat 2 года назад +2

      @@joanthompson5606 Absolutely. Many of Dahl's short stories feature in episodes of the excellent British series, Tales of The Unexpected, which he also hosted. As I said, his very adult novel, My Uncle Oswald is brilliant and one of my favs. He has many editions of adult short stories and if you search them out, I'm sure complete collections won't be too hard to find. Short story collections include, Kiss Kiss, Over To You, Switch Bitch and Someone Like You. Enjoy!

    • @joanthompson5606
      @joanthompson5606 2 года назад +1

      @@hairylittlewombat Fantastic! This is all news to me...I will look up his work for sure. Thanks 😊!

    • @hairylittlewombat
      @hairylittlewombat 2 года назад +2

      @@joanthompson5606 Awesome! I'd love to know your thoughts.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад +1

      Yeah, huge fan of Dahl's short stories! I do have My Uncle Oswald as well, but haven't read it yet

  • @troytradup
    @troytradup 2 года назад +2

    Karen Black shout-out! Trilogy of Terror is such a milestone TV movie -- that final segment, anyway.

  • @ellagoreyshorrorstories7524
    @ellagoreyshorrorstories7524 2 года назад +3

    Richard Matheson wrote some great short stories, and I've always felt that horror works so much better in the shorter format! I'd recommend Nadia Bulkin's collection She Said Destroy, and Paula D. Ashe's We Are Here to Hurt Each Other.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад +1

      Yeah I do think the short story is something that suits horror well. I’ll have to check out those collections.

  • @chrisgomes5048
    @chrisgomes5048 2 года назад +1

    I love his short stories. His son Richard Christian Matheson is an excellent short story writer too. He put out a few collections in the 1990s. There are too many short story writers I love. Some of my favorite contemporary horror short story writers include: John Langan, Laird Barron. Reggie Oliver, Mark Samuels, Richard Gavin, Joe R. Lansdale. Some of my favorite literary (but still weird) short story writers include: Bruno Schulz and Dino Buzatti.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      I'll have to check some of those out! Thanks for the recs

  • @M-J
    @M-J 2 года назад +4

    Olly, I picked up the Penguin Classics copy when it was a deal on BookBub for $2 - just before the reading challenge began. ☺️ I think it was money well spent! 👏🏻As you say, can’t wait to dip into it. - 📚MJ

  • @NineVoltDigitalCinema
    @NineVoltDigitalCinema 2 года назад +1

    Great video! I’m much happier reading short stories lately than novels, my current favorite is Brian Evenson, he’s definitely on the weird side of literary horror. I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never actually read any Richard Matheson, though I’ve enjoyed many of his screen adaptations. Another book to add to the 2023 pile!

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад +1

      I've not read Evenson, I'll have to check him out! Hope you enjoy Matheson when you get to him!

  • @brittlizzzzzz
    @brittlizzzzzz 2 года назад +2

    Love the thumbnail 🤣

  • @sherrirabinowitz4618
    @sherrirabinowitz4618 Год назад

    I love Richard Matheson, you may not like my favorite novel, it is Bid Time Return, which became the movie Somewhere In Time. My favorite of his several Twilight Zones is Little Girl Lost, it is so haunting that a hole in our Universe could appear in a little girl's room and she would get lost in another world just by falling out of bed. I had the honor of meeting him at reading of his new book at the time and a signing, he was a very nice man.

  • @etamommy
    @etamommy 2 года назад +1

    I am quite addicted to your posts! Almost all fantastic and interesting! Keep up the great work! Love your descriptions and synopsises ! I have a couple novels of his - one became a Kevin bacon staring movie and that one was really good! (Stir of echoes I think !?!). Also read that fantastic short story about the terrorizing Zulu doll warrior guy ! Awesome how he makes that story seem so vivid it somehow becomes highly plausible and very very scary! Great author! And yes, the I am legend praise (for the book - will smith movie was only okay- read the book first folks- it is quite good!)

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      Thank you! So glad you're enjoying the channel. Stir of Echoes is one I haven't tried yet.

  • @kerilowman9257
    @kerilowman9257 2 года назад +3

    My favorite short story collections have been by Ray Bradbury and Darcy Coates so far!

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      Oh! I didn’t know Coates had written short stories!

  • @cadcar13
    @cadcar13 2 года назад +1

    Of course I love Stephen Kings short stories, like Skeleton Crew! Such great stories that really stick with you. Or the one with “1408”, I think it’s in Everything’s Eventual.
    Will have to check out your recommendations too! Take car Olly, have a good night! 😊🇨🇦

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад +1

      Yeah King is very good, although i do think his short stories (like his novels) can be a bit hit or miss

    • @cadcar13
      @cadcar13 2 года назад +1

      1408 still creeps me out. I can’t watch the movie! 😳

  • @themiddleplace
    @themiddleplace 2 года назад +1

    You're made me want to read for first time, probably overdue , thank you.

  • @fiberartsyreads
    @fiberartsyreads 2 года назад +1

    I definitely want to check out some of his short stories. I’ve read three of his books so far.

  • @michaelk.vaughan8617
    @michaelk.vaughan8617 2 года назад +1

    Wonderful review of a great writer.

  • @rresmini
    @rresmini 2 года назад +1

    Love Matheson. Total master of short and long form. Would also recommend Bradbury's October Country and Harlan Ellison's Strange Wine.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад +1

      Yeah I really need to read more of both Bradbury and Ellison. Thanks!

  • @evansclan4eva49
    @evansclan4eva49 2 года назад +2

    Here’s a recommendation for you! I like the short stories of Michael Marshall Smith. His anthology ‘What You Make It’ has some creepy stuff in. My favourite in the book is ‘Hell Hath Enlarged Herself’. It’s similar to Stephen King’s ‘The End of the Whole Mess’.

    • @Robbo_C
      @Robbo_C 2 года назад +1

      Agreed. Michael Marshall Smith is one of the best short story writers around today.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад +1

      Thank you! I’ve read at least one of his novels (Spares I think) but not tried his short stories

    • @Robbo_C
      @Robbo_C 2 года назад +1

      @@CriminOllyBlog I tend to read a lot of horror anthologies, and I noticed that Smith was often represented in many "best of" anthologies, and that his stories were always the best or one of the best tales in these books. Then I bought a few of his collections, and they were terrific. I must admit, though, that I have yet to read any of his novels.

  • @rickcroucher
    @rickcroucher 2 года назад +3

    If you like Richard Matheson you will like Charles Beaumont. He wrote a lot of short stories several of which were turned into scripts for The Twilight Zone. I used to buy short story collections if they had just one of his stories because at that time they didn't have published collections of his. Give him a try.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      He sounds like someone I definitely need to check out. Thanks Rick!

  • @themiddleplace
    @themiddleplace 2 года назад +2

    Well since you asked: Dennis Etchinson is probably my person favourite. start with one of his first 2 collections, ones called RED DREAMS.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      I haven’t read Etchison. Will have to check him out. Thank you!

    • @themiddleplace
      @themiddleplace 2 года назад +1

      @@CriminOllyBlog you may have done but not know, he did a lot of those novelisations you like to read including THE FOG and HALLOWEEN III.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      @@themiddleplace Ah! I think I read his novelisation of The Fog years ago!

  • @scp240
    @scp240 2 года назад +1

    I read I Am Legend back in the day before the movies and I agree, the book is much better than either of the films. Oddly I haven’t read any of his short stories although I saw the Serling adaptations when they first aired and I’m currently making my way through the entire series on BluRay. My favorite short story author is Chekhov, his work is brilliant and he wrote quite a number of classic tales that are well worth reading.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      I bet that's a great experience rewatching them all!

  • @inal-ii
    @inal-ii Год назад

    I'm from Mexico, I knew about Richard Matheson through the movies and the twilight zone, great stories... it is almost impossible to find a Richard Matheson antology in spanish, so I bought the penguin anthology 😊... I feel curious about Shirley Jackson, she is not very known in my country.

  • @tiffanyclark-grove1989
    @tiffanyclark-grove1989 2 года назад +1

    I love Matheson, also JGBallard (Drowned World, Empire of the Sun) and David Brin (The Postman). And B Traven is one of my favorite short western story writers.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      I've not read B Traven! Will have to look them up

  • @DerekJohnson42
    @DerekJohnson42 2 года назад +1

    Matheson is a favorite. I also loved Charles Beaumont (who also wrote for Twilight Zone) and the 1980s writer Dennis Etchison, mentored under Beaumont.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      I don't think Ive read either Etchison or Beaumont -thanks for the recs!

  • @bjlowe85
    @bjlowe85 2 года назад +1

    Great video Olly

  • @arlenearmstrong8270
    @arlenearmstrong8270 2 года назад +1

    Hi Olly. Matheson is great, I think "Stir of Echoes" is too long for the Anthologies so is difficult to hunt down, but worth it. In one of your " Q&A's" you mentioned reading some Bukowski and I think it's pretty much accepted that his best books are the short story collections " Tales of Ordinary Madness" and " The Most Beautiful Woman in Town". Keep up the good work.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      Thanks Arlene. I still haven’t gotten round to Bukowski so might try and hunt down his short stories.

  • @mindysbookjourney
    @mindysbookjourney 2 года назад +1

    The Best of collection is one I hope to pick up sometime soon once I have finished the Read What You Own Challenge.

  • @KevinsKontentKorner
    @KevinsKontentKorner Год назад

    Glad you made this video. For as prolific and as respected as matheson is by the reading community as well as other writers and directors, there’s not one list of best Richard matheson novels or best short stories on google that I saw. And his books have remarkably few ratings on goodreads. Kinda sad, and it seems like outside of I am legend even horror readers don’t know a ton of his stuff. However what a great career he had, novels, short stories, screenplays for television and film. Quite prolific. I compare him and Bradbury, they both wrote sci-fi/fantasy/horror and matheson had all the twilight zone episodes, Bradbury had the Bradbury theater, and both wrote tons of great short stories.

  • @rickyconner6782
    @rickyconner6782 2 года назад +5

    What about Harlan Ellison?

    • @rresmini
      @rresmini 2 года назад +1

      brilliant stuff. so much material, too.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      He’s one I definitely need to read more by

  • @davebrzeski
    @davebrzeski 2 года назад +1

    I have the 4 volumes of his SHOCK! Collections, which I must compare with the collections you have. Interestingly, a good number, probably most of the Matheson stories that were adapted for film, or TV, were adapted by Matheson himself.
    I second the recommendation for Charles Beaumont's stories, if you can find them. Also the British author. Elizabeth Walter, who had 5 original collections published in the 60s & 70s, plus a sort of best of from Arkham House. None of those are easy to find, or cheap, but there's a complete collection of her short stories that was published a few years ago from Shadow Publishing, which is not a bad price considering the size of it. I wish I could remember who edited it. 😉
    Interestingly, she had 4 of her stories adapted for TV, and the only one that was done well, was adapted by Richard Matheson.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      Love that final Matheson connection! I’ll have to check Beaumont and Walter out as keen to expand my knowledge of short story writers

  • @SirStuckey
    @SirStuckey 2 года назад +1

    Octavia Butler has a short story collection called Bloodchild that is very good

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад +1

      I'll have to try that, I loved Parable of the Sower

  • @jennifervest3767
    @jennifervest3767 2 года назад +1

    I recently read a great little collection of short stories called Black Gate Tales by Paul Draper.

  • @Mondasian
    @Mondasian 2 года назад +1

    Hell house is still my favourite from when I read it when I was 9!

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад +1

      That does seem VERY young to have read that book!

  • @matthewmilner3639
    @matthewmilner3639 2 года назад +1

    Phillip K Dick's short stories are also often filmed, and are excellent. Joe R Lansdale's horror / speculative short fiction is very entertaining - funny and schocky.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      Yeah, PKD is great. It's been ages since I read his short fiction though

  • @华马-b1m
    @华马-b1m 2 месяца назад

    我超级喜欢Richard Matheson 的 《bid time return 》

  • @eriebeverly
    @eriebeverly 2 года назад +2

    Have you ever read the Rod Serling short story collections? If you like the shape of the Twilight Zone that's one way to go. He's not as soulful of a writer as Matheson but you do get the snap.
    And it's Dennis Weaver in Duel. The king of US made-for-tv movies. He also starred in the series McCloud as a folksy small-town sheriff on loan to the NYPD. And at one point McCloud battles Dracula because, y'know, the 70s. It's on YT as McCloud Meets Dracula if you want to question existence.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      Wow I need to watch McCloud meets Dracula!
      And no I haven’t read the Serling collections but they sound great

  • @jasonburnell1313
    @jasonburnell1313 2 года назад +1

    Never read Matheson, might have to pick a copy up of the penguin classics. I read penguin classic M.R James - Ghost stories over Christmas, quite enjoyed some of those.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      Matheson is really great! I read some MR James recently too

  • @MriInterocitor
    @MriInterocitor 2 года назад +2

    Matheson was indeed great, but I don’t know that I’d rank him clearly ahead of Howard Waldrop, James Tiptree Jr, Robert Aickman, Gene Wolfe, J.G. Ballard….

    • @Robbo_C
      @Robbo_C 2 года назад +2

      Robert Aickman is my favorite writer. His work is so unsettling in such unique ways. Not very prolific, but just about everything he wrote is outstanding.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад +2

      I really do need to check all of those out - Aickman and Tiptree in particular

  • @mynameissiddharth
    @mynameissiddharth 2 года назад +1

    Good evening, sir.
    I have the Penguin edition of Matheson's stories. Some very good ones have been selected for this collection.
    However, there is one story which is not there in this book.
    It's called "The Likeness of Julie". I read this story years ago in some old book in a library.
    Would you please kindly look it up? I believe the story was written by Richard Matheson.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад

      Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll see if I can find that one

  • @Toracube
    @Toracube 2 года назад +2

    I think Shirley Jackson is up there too. No doubt Matheson is a heavyweight.

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад +1

      Jackson is great, although I’d label her crime/horror rather than SF/horror

  • @wendyvilla2904
    @wendyvilla2904 2 года назад +1

    💚🖤

  • @joanthompson5606
    @joanthompson5606 2 года назад +1

    Olly! You're a great Yeti, scaring the 💩out of capt. Kirk. Maybe a bit of a non sequitur, but watching 'Hitchcock presents' reruns, I've noticed many of those were written by Roald Dahl. Do you know about his non-children's writing? I'm very curious. I've heard he was a real meanie and not well-liked....

    • @CriminOllyBlog
      @CriminOllyBlog  2 года назад +1

      LOL! And yes I do know about Dahl's adult fiction. I've read a fair bit of it and really like it. And yes, not sure he was a terribly nice person IRL