Richard Christian Matheson is an American writer of horror fiction and screenplays. He is the author of the short story collections Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks and Dystopia; the novel Created By; the magic-realism novella "The Ritual of Illusion," and was the editor of the commemorative book "BATTLEGROUND." He co-wrote the screenplays for "Three O'Clock High," "Full Eclipse," "Loose Cannons," "Paradise," and others. He adapted Dean Koontz's "Soul Survivor" as a 4-Hour mini series, wrote three Masters of Horror episodes and wrote the film "Happy Face Killer." He wrote for Amazing Stories, the miniseries Nightmares & Dreamscapes and has been an executive story editor and producer for network television series, including Quincy, Stir Crazy, The A-Team, Hunter, Hardcastle and McCormick, Stingray, Teech, The Torkelsons and many others. His father is fiction writer and screenwriter Richard Matheson and his paternal grandparents are from Norway. 

October 14th, 1953 in Los Angeles (Age 71)