What is I Am Legend (novel)?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Richard Matheson.jpg|thumb|Author Richard Matheson]] '''''I Am Legend''''' is a [[1954]] horror novel by [[Americans|American]] writer [[Richard Matheson]]. It helped the development of the [[zombie]] genre and in popularizing the idea of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease. The novel was a success. It was adapted to a movie as ''[[The Last Man on Earth]]'' in 1964, as ''[[The Omega Man]]'' in 1971, and as ''[[I Am Legend (movie)|I Am Legend]]'' in 2007. It also came with a direct-to-video 2007 production capitalizing on that movie, ''I Am Omega''. The novel was also the inspiration behind the 1968 movie ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]''. {{lit-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:I Am Legend}} [[Category:1954 books]] [[Category:Horror novels]] [[Category:20th-century American novels]] [[Category:Science fiction books]]