A Stir of Echoes
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Author | Richard Matheson |
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Language | English |
Genre | Horror |
Publisher | J. B. Lippincott & Co. |
Publication date | 1958 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | |
Pages | 224 |
A Stir of Echoes is a supernatural novel by American writer Richard Matheson, published in 1958. It served as the inspiration for the 1999 film Stir of Echoes.[1]
Plot synopsis
Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities which he never knew he possessed. Now he is hearing the private thoughts of the people around him and learning shocking secrets which he never wanted to know.
But as Tom's existence becomes a waking nightmare, even greater jolts are in store. He becomes the unwilling recipient of a message from the afterlife.
Reception
Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale praised the novel, saying "Matheson expertly builds a mood of horror and terror that only on one occasion exceeds credulity."[2] Damon Knight, however, dismissed it as "a thin and banal ghost story with psi trimmings, written in a Chippendale Chinese style."[3]
References
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- I Am Legend (1954)
- The Shrinking Man (1956)
- A Stir of Echoes (1958)
- The Beardless Warriors (1960)
- Hell House (1971)
- Bid Time Return (1975)
- What Dreams May Come (1978)
- Earthbound (1982)
- "Born of Man and Woman" (1950)
- "Button, Button" (1970)
- The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
- House of Usher (1960)
- "The Last Flight" (1960)
- "Nick of Time" (1960)
- "A World of Difference" (1960)
- "A World of His Own" (1960)
- Master of the World (1961)
- The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
- "The Invaders" (1961)
- "Once Upon a Time" (1961)
- Night of the Eagle (1962)
- Tales of Terror (1962)
- "Little Girl Lost" (1962)
- "Young Man's Fancy" (1962)
- The Raven (1963)
- "Death Ship" (1963)
- "Mute" (1963)
- "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (1963)
- "Steel" (1963)
- The Comedy of Terrors (1964)
- The Last Man on Earth (1964)
- "Night Call" (1964)
- "Spur of the Moment" (1964)
- Fanatic (1965)
- The Young Warriors (1966)
- "The Enemy Within" (1966)
- The Devil Rides Out (1968)
- De Sade (1969)
- Duel (1971)
- The Night Stalker (1972)
- The Night Strangler (1973)
- The Legend of Hell House (1973)
- Dying Room Only (1973)
- Bram Stoker's Dracula (1974)
- The Morning After (1974)
- Scream of the Wolf (1974)
- Trilogy of Terror (1975)
- Dead of Night (1977)
- The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver (1977)
- The Martian Chronicles (1980)
- Somewhere in Time (1980)
- Jaws 3-D (1983)
- Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
- "Button, Button" (1986)
- Loose Cannons (1990)
- The Dreamer of Oz (1990)
- Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics (1994)
- Trilogy of Terror II (1996)
by others
- "And When the Sky Was Opened" (1959)
- "Third from the Sun" (1960)
- Cold Sweat (1970)
- The Omega Man (1971)
- The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
- What Dreams May Come (1998)
- Stir of Echoes (1999)
- "Dance of the Dead" (2005)
- "My Ambition" (2006)
- I Am Legend (2007)
- I Am Omega (2007)
- The Box (2009)
- "The Splendid Source" (2010)
- Real Steel (2011)
- Richard Christian Matheson (son)
- Chris Matheson (son)
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