Richard Matheson, the versatile Golden Age science fiction and horror writer who created some of our most definitive visions of the unknown, has died at age 87. His daughter Ali Marie Matheson posted the news on Facebook earlier today and The Hollywood Reporter later confirmed it. The cause of death was not disclosed. "My beloved father passed away yesterday at home surrounded by the people and things he loved," she wrote. "He was funny, brilliant, loving, generous, kind, creative, and the most wonderful father ever... I miss you and love you forever Pop, and I know you are now happy and healthy in a beautiful place full of love and joy you always knew was there."
Matheson was born in 1926 and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He sold his...
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