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He wrote a number of episodes for the American TV series The Twilight Zone, and scripted Steven Spielberg's first film, Duel. Novels include The Shrinking Man (filmed as The Incredible Shrinking Man), and a science fiction vampireCount Orlok from Nosferatu A vampire is a mythical or folkloric creature said to subsist on human or animal blood often having magical powers and the ability to transform. Usually the vampire is the corpse of a dead person, reanimated or made undead by on novel, I Am LegendI Am Legend is a 1954 science fiction novel by Richard Matheson about a pandemic of a bacterium that causes vampirism. The hero is the last surviving unaffected human, living in a house fortified against nocturnal attacks by the infected, and sallying for, which has been filmed twice, under the titles The Omega Man and The Last Man on Earth. (A proposed third film version, under the novel's original title and rumored to involve star Arnold SchwarzeneggerArnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian- American actor, politician, bodybuilder, and businessman, currently serving as the 38th Governor of California. He was elected in 2003 in a special recall election, removing sitting Governor and director Ridley ScottSir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937) in South Shields is a British film director and producer. Scott studied photography at the Royal College of Art and helped establish the film department there in the mid-1960s. After graduation he secured a traine, hasn't managed to get off the ground.) Other Matheson novels turned into notable films include What Dreams May Come, Stir of Echoes, Bid Time Return (as Somewhere in Time), and Hell House (as The Legend of Hell House).
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