{"id":2655,"date":"2013-06-28T13:02:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T17:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2013-06-28T13:02:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T17:02:18","slug":"remembering-richard-matheson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2013\/06\/28\/remembering-richard-matheson\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Richard Matheson"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2657\" style=\"width: 75px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2013\/06\/richard_matheson.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"lightbox[2655]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2013\/06\/richard_matheson.jpg?resize=75%2C111&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Richard Matheson\" width=\"75\" height=\"111\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2657\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Matheson<\/figcaption><\/figure>I haven&#8217;t mentioned the death of <strong>Richard Matheson<\/strong> on <strong>Yellowed Perils<\/strong>, though I did <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thepulpnet\" target=\"_blank\">tweet about it<\/a> when I heard the news earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Though primarily known for his novels, including \u201cI Am Legend,&#8221; and his film and TV scripts (\u201cThe Pit and the Pendulum&#8221; and &#8220;Twilight Zone&#8221;), Matheson, who was 87, had his first story, \u201cBorn of Man and Woman,\u201d published in the digest <em>The Magazine of Fantasy &#038; Science Fiction<\/em>. His work also appeared in (among others) <em>Galaxy<\/em>, <em>Imagination<\/em>, <em>Marvel Science Stories<\/em>, <em>Startling Stories<\/em> and <em>Weird Tales<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But let me refer you to <strong>Terence Towles Canote<\/strong>, who has <a href=\"http:\/\/mercurie.blogspot.com\/2013\/06\/the-late-great-richard-matheson.html\" target=\"_blank\">an excellent remembrance of Matheson<\/a> on his blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/mercurie.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Shroud of Thoughts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t mentioned the death of Richard Matheson on Yellowed Perils, though I did tweet about it when I heard the news earlier in the week. Though primarily known for his novels, including \u201cI Am Legend,&#8221; and his film and TV scripts (\u201cThe Pit and the Pendulum&#8221; and &#8220;Twilight Zone&#8221;), Matheson, who was 87, had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"At Yellowed Perils: Remembering Richard Matheson. #pulpmags #scifi http:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-GP","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[3,7,18,9,12],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pulpbits","category-news","category-obituaries","category-people","category-pulpsters"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-GP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}