Hunted Past Reason [Paperback]

It was supposed to be just an ordinary camping trip, two old friends hiking through the woods of northern California. But this self-enforced isolation exposes long-hidden rivalries and resentments between the men. The deeper they get into the wilderness, far from civilization, the greater the tension becomesuntil it erupts into a terrifying life-or-death battle for survival. Two men enter the woods, but only one will emerge alive . . . .

Makes the most agonizing scenes fromDeliveranceseem genteel by comparison . . . Matheson is a master at conveying the escalating mental anguish of the protagonist . . . and at capturing the violent, psychotic and perversely ingenious mind of his foe. The Wall Street Journal

Matheson's masterpiece . . . First-rate suspense. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

The Hemingway of horror. Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Recommended highly, both for Matheson's large and devoted following and for all readers of suspense stories. Booklist

Impossible to stop reading, and in many ways is the strongest novel of Matheson's career. Fangoria

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.