Richard Burton Matheson was born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn. As a child, his stories and poems were published in the "Brooklyn Eagle". He made his professional writing debut in 1950 with the short story "Born of Man and Woman" in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction". Throughout the 1950s, he wrote a number of highly regarded horror, fantasy and mystery stories.
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💰 Net worth
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House of Usher (1960)
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$5,000 |
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Master of the World (1961)
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$5,000 |
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Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
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$5,000 |
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Night of the Eagle (1962)
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$5,000 |
Born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, Richard Burton Matheson first became a published author while still a child, when his stories and poems ran in the "Brooklyn Eagle". A lifelong reader of fantasy tales, he made his professional writing bow in 1950 when his short story "Born of Man and Woman"? appeared in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"; Matheson turned out a number of highly regarded horror, fantasy and mystery stories throughout that decade. He broke into films in 1956, adapting his novel "The Shrinking Man" for the big-screen The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957).
