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Vampires of I Am Legend (novel)

Matheson's novel calls its monsters vampires, but its plague-created undead swarming each night helped establish zombie fiction as well as modern vampire fiction. It gave the undead a medical cause, a bacterium, instead of a supernatural one. Romero said openly that Night of the Living Dead borrowed heavily from it.1

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Primeira aparição
1954
Published 7 August 1954
Obra de origem
I Am Legend (1954)
Richard Matheson
Feito em
EUA
O que o causa
Outro
A pandemic bacillus infects both the living and the dead.
Como te tornas um
Infection by the bacterium, which dust storms helped to spread; those who die of it rise again.
Inteligência
Alguma inteligência
Pontos fracos
  • sunlight
  • garlic
  • wooden stakes
  • mirrors and crosses (psychological)

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1954

Published 7 August 1954

notas de campo

O que dizem as fontes

1

Two kinds exist: the risen dead, who have lost their reason, and the living-infected, who stay conscious1

2

Bullets fail because the bacteria seal wounds; a stake lets air in and the body liquefies1

3

The living-infected develop drugs to manage the disease and build a new society1

4

George Romero acknowledged borrowing heavily from it for Night of the Living Dead1

5

Named Vampire Novel of the Century by the Horror Writers Association in 20121

6

Filmed three times: 1964, 1971 and 20071

Fontes

  1. I Am Legend (novel) - Wikipedia

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