Richard Matheson

W. Scott Poole, PhD, is Associate Professor of History at the College of Charleston and likes to spend his time researching our fascination with things that go bump (or ‘bomp bah bomp bah bomp’) in the night. Unlike most academicians, Scott’s the kind of guy you actually want to hang out with outside of class. […]

Excerpted from David Denby’s review, The New Yorker, November 16 2009 The Box, based on a story by Richard Matheson, doesn’t come close to Donnie Darko in psychological interest; it’s more a supernatural morality tale. . . . The great Frank Langella, soft-voiced and menacing, even with his flesh torn away, is a charmer. Is […]