Button, Button Uncanny Stories [Paperback]

What if every time you pushed a button you received $50,000...but someone you didn't know died? Would you still push the button? How many times?

Button, Button , which inspired a memorableTwilight Zoneepisode, is just one of a dozen unforgettable tales in this new collection by Richard Matheson, theNew York Timesbestselling author ofI Am LegendandWhat Dreams May Come.This volume contains a number of stories that were adapted for television, as well as a new introduction by Matheson himself.

This collection of stories features Button, Button, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden.

Richard Matheson(1926-2013) wasThe New York Timesbestselling author ofI Am Legend,Hell House,Somewhere in Time,The Incredible Shrinking Man,Now You See It&, andWhat Dreams May Come, among others. He was named a Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention, and received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He has also won the Edgar, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. In 2010, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. In addition to his novels Matheson wrote several screenplays for movies and TV, including severalTwilight Zoneepisodes.

1. Button, Button
2. Girl of My Dreams
3. Dying Room Only
4. A Flourish of Strumpets
5. No Such Thing as a Vampire
6. Pattern for Survival
7. Mute
8. The Creeping Terror
9. Shock Wave
10. Clothes Make the Man
11. The Jazz Machine
12. 'Tis the Season to Be Jelly

His stories not only entertain, but touch the mind and heart. Dean Koontz

Perhaps no other author living is as responsible for chilling a generation with tantalizing nightmare visions. The New York Times

Richard Matheson is one of the great names in American terror fiction. The Philadelphia Inquirer

Matheson is the master of paranoil“I