“I’m not sure there was anyone he could really open up to. I’m not sure he ever had another man that he could actually reveal himself to...' Chris Matheson examines his father's legacy in a new book called 'Conversations With the Father.'
, Richard Matheson combined wild sci-fi concepts with relatable everyday characters. It was an approach that would have a profound influence on later authors, such as Stephen King. “[Matheson] stripped away a lot of the gothic/cobwebby/dark mansion/candlelight quality out of horror, and he brought in reality and this sense of verisimilitude,” Chris says.
Richard Matheson’s great theme was loneliness. Over and over he writes about isolated men struggling to survive against insurmountable odds. In, Chris recalls his father’s difficulty connecting with other people. “He and my mom had a lot of friends, they socialized a lot, but I don’t know whether he had a close friend, is the thing,” Chris says. “I’m not sure there was anyone he could really open up to.
Chris believes that his father used two strategies to cope with his feelings of loneliness. One was to take comfort in the company of animals—his love of dogs comes through powerfully in novels such as—and the other was to throw himself into his work. “This is a guy who went down to his little office—which was a converted barn, essentially—and he’d be in his office for eight hours by himself,” Chris says. “And he loved it—or he needed it. He thrived on it.”.
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