- Demoniac possession, Fiction, Haunted houses, Sexuality
Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newpaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death.
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- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Richard Matheson
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 268
- Publisher
- Corgi, Bantam, Severn House Publishers
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780552091763
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Richard Matheson was born in Allendale, New Jersey, the son of Norwegian immigrant parents. He was raised in Brooklyn and started writing at age eight. He graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1943. He served as an infantry soldier in World War II. He earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1949. His first short story, "Born of Man and Woman," appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1950. Between 1950 and 1971, he wrote dozens of stories, frequently blending elements of science fiction, horror and fantasy. In 1951 he moved to California and became a screenwriter, writing episodes for The Twilight Zone, Lawman, and Star Trek,
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