![]() ![]() Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth (1964) which is nothing like the book and completely misses the point. But Matheson combines all these genres to produce something that is fundamentally about humanity – about loneliness, prejudice and the overwhelming will to survive. The book is sci-fi in the sense that it’s set in a near-future and involves a plague, Neville’s world is about as dystopian as you can get and there are passages of great horror writing. ![]() Put away your anti-vampire fiction prejudices for a moment. By day, the vampires go into a coma-like sleep and Neville uses this time to fight back the only way he can – by killing as many of them as he can find. Now he spends each night barricaded into his house, surrounded by all the traditional anti-vampire weapons – garlic, crosses, mirrors – while a growing horde of vampires gathers outside howling for his blood. For some reason, Neville alone seems to be immune. It’s some months since a devastating plague swept through humanity, killing many and turning the rest into vampires. Robert Neville is the only human left in his neighbourhood and possibly the world. Loneliness, prejudice and the will to survive… ![]()
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