Richard Matheson
24) Duel
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A traveling businessman is menaced on the highway by a huge diesel truck. Although he can never see the psychopathic driver of the truck, he soon realizes that this guy is out to kill him!
25) Real steel
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to build and train a championship contender.
Series
Library of America volume 227
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
803 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
27) Stir of echoes
Pub. Date
2000, 1999.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Tom is hypnotized at a neighborhood party, he changes. He sees things he can't explain and hears voices he can't ignore. As the visions intensify, he realizes they are echoes of a crime calling out to be solved.
28) The omega man
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the future where biological warfare has decimated life on Earth. Los Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert Neville tools his convertible through sunlit streets foraging for supplies. He fends off attacks by The Family-- sinister neopeople spawned by the plague. He also becomes a man with a mission after meeting Lisa, another infected survivor, and guardian of some healthy children representing our species' hope.
29) The living dead
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (13 hr., 16 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fall of the house of Usher: An English Lord fears that his sister has been buried alive, and sure enough, she is, but she revives, but not without causing much confusion among the other members of the cast. The pit and the pendulum: A young man's search for the truth of his sister's death uncovers a bizarre and ghastly secret.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thinking himself the only person alive after a plague that killed his wife and child, a scientist fights a nightly battle with what appear to be vampires, trying to break into his house.
Author
Language
English
Description
Road Rage unites Richard Matheson's classic Duel and the contemporary work it inspired—two power-packed short stories by three of the genre's most acclaimed authors. Duel, an unforgettable tale about a driver menaced by a semi truck, was the source for Stephen Spielberg's acclaimed first film of the same name. Throttle, by Stephen King and Joe Hill, is a duel of a different kind, pitting a faceless trucker against a tribe of motorcycle outlaws,
...Pub. Date
[2007?]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (230 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Patch Adams: A doctor emphasizes humor in his care of patients, at risk to his career.
What dreams may come: Chris Nielsen dies and is united with his children, who died before him, in a beautiful afterlife, but must risk his own future to rescue his wife from her fate.
