Original Richard Matheson Movie Posters

Richard Matheson movie posters bridge science fiction and horror — original theatrical prints from adaptations of one of postwar American genre fiction's most influential writers, including The Incredible Shrinking Man, I Am Legend, and Hell House. Matheson wrote the source novels for The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) and I Am Legend—adapted most famously as The Omega Man (1971)—and also created the screenplay for Steven Spielberg's Duel (1971) and wrote extensively for The Twilight Zone. Shop original theatrical materials from these landmark productions. Matheson's particular gift was for taking a single high-concept premise and following its logic with unflinching discipline: a man shrinking from the world, a sole survivor of a vampire plague, a motorist stalked by a homicidal truck. His influence on Stephen King, who has acknowledged Matheson's work repeatedly, extends throughout modern horror literature and its many film adaptations. The productions based on his work form a body of some of the most inventive genre pictures of the postwar era. Posters from Matheson adaptations span several decades and visual idioms, from the science fiction designs of the 1950s to the psychedelic horror aesthetics of the early 1970s. Fine-condition materials from the 1950s productions in particular are increasingly difficult to source as original paper from this era becomes genuinely scarce in the collecting market. Shop our Horror and Thriller collections for related genre materials. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.