He’s extremely meticulous about taking care of his home, his supplies, everything. Maybe in the beginning I felt for him, drudging through his day, going through his daily routine. The concept and theme of the story really hit deep (I’ll get into those in a minute). I respect it as a classic in its genre, one of the staples that fueled countless other stories and added to the wealth of vampire lore. Now, older and maybe wiser, I find on my second read that I still don’t care for it. I vaguely remember not really caring for this story when I first read it, thinking it wasn’t romantic enough for my tastes at the time.
I previously read this story back in my ultra Goth days when I devoured anything and everything vampire. This story is a classic vampire tale, originally published in 1954, that tells the story of Robert Neville, who may or may not be the last human on earth. And so will spoilers, just so you know! So let’s begin with a super classic: Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend. I’m sure plenty of ranting on both wonderful and terrible things will still occur. Dishing on horror isn’t really new to this blog (see my rant on creepy mannequins), but I’ll be getting a little more in depth with some of these stories. Hi gang! This is the first of a series of horror-related posts I’ll be doing for my Reading In Genre: Horror Monsters course for Seton Hill University’s MFA in Writing Popular Fiction.
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