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Backteria

Richard Matheson
3.9
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Pages
266
Year
2011
Language
English
Publisher
RosettaBooks

About

A researcher encounters an exotic new strain of "Backteria" that causes the infected person to vanish-leading the doctor on a path of discovery deep into a past he should have left buried. A simple "Haircut" that starts off as a routine trim becomes a dark and terrifying experience when a barber is confronted with a sick customer who seems otherworldly. A case of mistaken identity leads to a darkly farcical story of marriage, murder, and a love that knows no bounds in "Getting Together." Backteria & Other Improbable Tales gathers these and sixteen more uncanny short stories from master storyteller Richard Matheson.

Related Subjects

  • Short Stories (single author)
  • Adult Fiction
  • Collections & Anthologies
  • Science Fiction
  • General (Science Fiction)
  • General (Horror)
  • Horror

Reviews

"Perhaps no other living author is as responsible for chilling a generation with tantalizing nightmare visions."
The New York Times
"Matheson's a writer who just has the special knack, the deft skill to imagine terrifying scenarios on any scale, large and small, and give them chilling possibility."
Los Angeles Times

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Richard MathesonAuthor

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