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Original Title:	A Stir of Echoes
ISBN:	0765308711 (ISBN13: 9780765308719)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Tom Wallace
Setting:	Hawthorne, California(United States)

A Stir of Echoes

Richard Matheson

Paperback | Pages: 223 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 11493 Users | 632 Reviews

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Title	:	A Stir of Echoes
Author	:	Richard Matheson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 223 pages
Published	:	July 1st 2004 by Tor Books (first published 1958)
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Fantasy. Paranormal. Supernatural

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This eerie ghost story, from Richard Matheson, the award-winning author of Hell House and I Am Legend, inspired the acclaimed 1999 film starring Kevin Bacon.

Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now he's hearing the private thoughts of the people around him-and learning shocking secrets he never wanted to know. But as Tom's existence becomes a waking nightmare, even greater jolts are in store as he becomes the unwilling recipient of a compelling message from beyond the grave!

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Ratings: 3.88 From 11493 Users | 632 Reviews

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See the movie that is loosely based on the book (starring Kevin Bacon). It is much edgier and more effective than the book. Even if you like Matheson (which I do...I think...), this book comes across as being quaint (written in the '50s) and predictable.

I want you to pretend you're in a theater, an enormous theater. You're sitting near the front....It is completely black inside. the walls are dark velvet, the floors are covered with dark velvet rugs. It's black inside, absolutely black...Except for one thing. In the whooooole pitch-black theater there's only one thing you can see. The letters on the screen. S-L-E-E-P. You're very comfortable. Veeeery comfortable. You are just sitting there and looking at the screen, looking, loooooking at that

3-ish *s I think this was probably more of a "knock your socks off" experience when it was written 60 years ago.Reading it now, for me, not so much.

I really enjoyed reading this one! I watched the movie starring Kevin Bacon when it came out and I thought it did a great job with updating this source material into modern times. They do keep some of the same elements here and there, though they change the person who was murdered and why. I liked that since I then went into this book cold and had no clue who did what to whom or why. I will say though that this book was published in the late 1950s and you feel that throughout. The woman in this

Richard Matheson is an author who never seems to let me down. The first two novels that I read by the man, "I Am Legend" (1954) and "The Shrinking Man" (1956), are superb and highly original sci-fi creations, and both have been memorably filmed. (I seem to be in the distinct minority in preferring the 1964 U.S.-Italian coproduction "The Last Man on Earth," starring Vincent Price, over 1971's "The Omega Man," featuring Charlton Heston, although neither quite does justice to the "I Am Legend"

An enjoyable novel about a man hypnotized at a party who then begins to exhibit psychic powers--including the recurrent appearances of a woman who may or may not be a ghost. Matheson--author of I am Legend, numerous classic creepy short stories and many of the best Twilight Zone episodes--has written better things, but this still kept my interest. I am a fan of the movie with Kevin Bacon, and was surprised by how much different the atmosphere and setting is in this, the original. The movie is