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Episode 589 - I Am Legend - Part 4 (Patreon)

Published:
2022-03-24 16:00:06
Imported:
2022-04

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We're closing the coffin door on Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend - climb in!

Special thanks to reader Erik Peabody of Viking Guitar Productions

Cosplay your own vampire siege with these Nosferatu Figurines by Cryptocurium

Enjoy our playlist of classical music from the novel on Spotify or YouTube

Next week: Comments and a Bonus Ep on Vampire Flicks!

Comments

Anonymous

More seriously, I read this decades ago, and very little of it stuck with me beyond that last scene with him staring down at the crowd, realizing that, for them, he was the unspeakable monster that hid in the shadows and preyed on them. It's very powerful, although, as an older and somewhat wiser reader, I wonder why the "recovered vampires" didn't try to make contact sooner. I mean, it would be hard to rehabilitate him, and maybe having a "normal person" around would be a temptation too far, but.... I totally agree with Chris that none of the films have really done the book justice, although the hairstyles in The Omega Man filled me with a nebulous horror when I was a child, but that was the 70s.

Anonymous

I really enjoyed your dive into "I Am Legend". I am surprised that you didn't mention that this novel was chosen to be the recipient of the Horror Writer's Association special Vampire Novel of the Century Award, beating out Stephen King's "Salem's Lot" and Anne Rice's "Interveiw with the Vampire." Stephen King himself said that without "I Am Legend" there would probably be no "Salem's Lot." I am glad that you talked about how Neville is enjoying the cat and mouse games he has with Cortman. I suspect that Neville knows where Cortman hides, but he chooses not to go and take Cortman out because Cortman's nightly visits gives him some level of excitement and meaning. I originally agreed that the scenes of Neville and Ruth were a weak point in an otherwise great novel. However, with this recent re-read I felt that since Ruth kissed Neville after he told her what happened to him that it's more out of pity than anything else. She has gotten to know the monster and she finds him rather pathetic and to be pitied, like a suffering old animal. I can't help but reflect on those last three words in the novel: "I am legend." In many ways Robert Neville will become the new boogeyman, whose name will be used to frighten little vamps into behaving, and perhaps vampire cults will spring up with him as either a figure of worship or revulsion. I can imagine a vampire mother telling her child that if they don't eat their blood-soaked spinach then Robert Neville will come for them during the day.