In 2008, Gauntlet Press published Matheson Uncollected: Volume One, followed by Volume Two in 2010, both as signed limited editions. This winter, they’re bringing you Matheson Uncollected: Backteria And Other Improbable Tales, a trade paperback which will include all of the short stories found in the signed limited editions. Additionally, you’ll find in this version:
- The short story “Backteria,” which has only appeared previously as an ebook
- Two additional stories that have never seen print in any form. One is a story Matheson recently found among the many cabinets of his material.
Table Of Contents
- Backteria (Previously Unpublished)
- He Wanted To Live
- Life Size Man
- With a Club
- Professor Fritz and the Runaway House
- Purge Among Peanuts
- The Prisoner – yes
- The Last Blah in the ETC
- Counterfeit Bills
- 1984 ½
- Pride
- Now Die In It
- Leo Rising
- Where There’s a Will (with Richard Christian Matheson)
- Getting Together
- Person to Person
- CU: Mannix
- Haircut
- An Element Never Forgets
- A Murder Story Told In Two Hundred Clichés
- (Previously Unpublished)
- My Conversation with Superman (Previously Unpublished)
The trade paperback edition is set to be published Winter 2012.
