Provocative thoughts about the great Richard Matheson from k-punk:
Richard Matheson, who occupies something like the same position in the American Weird that Ghost Box's touchstone, Nigel Kneale, does in the UK Weird.
Neat biographical pairing - multimedia creators, long careers, semivisibility.
Matheson has yet to quite acquire the auteur status that Kneale enjoyed, but this only adds to his pulp-anonymous artisan allure...
And about those stories?
Both Kneale and Matheson operated in an interstitial generic space - between SF and Horror - proper to the Weird, in a pulp infrastucture - paperbacks, television, B cinema - that has now largely disappeared.
What a fine event it would be to screen their movies and tv productions in alternating sequence. Stone Tape and "Little Girl Lost", Devil Rides Out and Hell House.
The Box hasn't yet graced Infocult's cinematic space, but will shortly.
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