Paul Koslo interview

It's been almost a year since I posted the Charlton Heston interview we conducted back in 2001 - here is the long awaited companion interview with Paul Koslo - Ducth from The Omega Man. Both were conducted for our aborted book project The Last Man on Film: The film adaptations of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend. Enjoy!

I Am Legend BBC Radio Adaptation

If you hurry, you can catch the BBC radio adaptation of I Am Legend online at the BBC website.

Thanks to Mike J. for the tip that this was back online.

Richard Matheson's I Am Legend screenplay adaptation

This Spring, Gauntlet Press will be releasing Visions Deferred, an affordable trade paperback containing Matheson's original screenplay for I Am Legend (previously only available in the hardcover limited edition Bloodlines - also still availble in extremely limited quantities). Check out the amazing cover by Harry O. Morris. Ordering information can be found here: http://www.gauntletpress.com

Tor Books 2007 Movie Tie-in

Tor reissued I Am Legend (with collected stories) to coincide with the release of the Will Smith film in 2007. The content is identical to the previous Tor paperback.

This is currently the in-print mass market edition of the book, which has already gone into multiple printings.

Tor Books with collected stories

In 1995, Tor Books published I Am Legend. For the first time, rather than being sold as a standalone novel, 10 additional short stories were also included.

Featuring one of my personal favorite Legend covers by artist Jim Thiesen (and the one I'm proud to own the original painting for) that would go on to be re-used (in a digitally manipulated form) on future domestic and international versions; the image cropped so as to remove the vampire baby, the head of the reaching vampire replaced with the skull like head below it, and all other vampires blurred.

Berkley Book The Nightmare Classic

In April 1979, Berkley brought I Am Legend back into print as part of their series of Matheson titles with matching covers. The same artist provided covers to The Shrinking Man, Stir of Echoes, The Shores of Space, Shock I, II, III and Shock Waves.

This would be the last US mass market paperback of the book for 16 years.

Berkley Medallion S2041 - The Omega Man

To coincide with the release of the film The Omega Man in August of 1971, Berkley Medallion thankfully acquired the rights to Matheson's albeit vastly different novel rather than hiring someone to write a novelization of the film.

The book sports a very nice cover image of Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe and the Family, and is kind enough to include the book's original title on the cover and spine, while giving the primary real estate on the cover and title page to the film title.

The first edition is recognizable by the inclusion of a TRUE cigarette advertisement between pages 88 and 89.

A second printing of the book was released in November of 1971, with a cover indistinguishable from the first printing, yet easily identified by the notation on the copyright page, as well as the absence of the cigarette advertisement fold-out that was present only in the first edition.