sentences:  Avenging zombies would feature prominently in the early 1950s EC Comics, which George A. Romero would later claim as an influence.The comics, including "Tales from the Crypt", "Vault of Horror" and "Weird Science", featured avenging undead in the Gothic tradition quite regularly, including adaptations of Lovecraft's stories, which included "In the Vault", "Cool Air" and "Herbert West–Reanimator".Richard Matheson's 1954 novel "I Am Legend", although classified as a vampire story, would nonetheless have a definitive impact on the zombie genre by way of George A. Romero.