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I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
I Am Legend is a 1954 post-apocalyptic horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson. The novel inspired the modern development of zombie and vampire literature as a new genre, the narrative trope of a scientific explanation for vampires, and the popularity of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease. The novel was a success and was adapted into the films The Last Man on Earth (1964), The Omega Man (1971), and I Am Legend (2007). It was also an inspiration for George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968).
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Robert Neville is the last human survivor of a global pandemic that turns people into vampire-like creatures. It begins with the haunting line: "On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back."
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