A Stir of Echoes

Novel by Richard Matheson

A Stir of Echoes
First edition
Author	Richard Matheson
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Horror
Publisher	J. B. Lippincott & Co.
Publication date	1958
Media type	Print
Pages	224

A Stir of Echoes is a supernatural novel by American writer Richard Matheson, published in 1958. It served as the inspiration for the 1999 film Stir of Echoes.^[1]

Plot synopsis

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 message from beyond the grave.

Reception

Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale praised the novel, saying "Matheson expertly builds a mood of horror and terror that only on one occasion exceeds credulity."^[2] Damon Knight, however, dismissed it as "a thin and banal ghost story with psi trimmings, written in a Chippendale Chinese style."^[3]

References

^ Grey, Ian (September 1999). "Stir of Echoes: A Chicago Ghost Story". Fangoria. Vol. 186. pp. 20–24, 82. ISSN 0164-2111.
^ Gale, Floyd C. (August 1958). "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf". Galaxy Science Fiction. p. 127.
^ "In the Balance". If. December 1958, pp.110

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Richard Matheson

Novels

I Am Legend (1954)
The Shrinking Man (1956)
A Stir of Echoes (1958)
The Beardless Warriors (1960)
Hell House (1971)
Bid Time Return (1975)
What Dreams May Come (1978)
Earthbound (1982)

Short stories

"Born of Man and Woman" (1950)
"Button, Button" (1970)

Screenplays

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
House of Usher (1960)
"The Last Flight" (1960)
"Nick of Time" (1960)
"A World of Difference" (1960)
"A World of His Own" (1960)
Master of the World (1961)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
"The Invaders" (1961)
"Once Upon a Time" (1961)
Night of the Eagle (1962)
Tales of Terror (1962)
"Little Girl Lost" (1962)
"Young Man's Fancy" (1962)
The Raven (1963)
"Death Ship" (1963)
"Mute" (1963)
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (1963)
"Steel" (1963)
The Comedy of Terrors (1964)
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
"Night Call" (1964)
"Spur of the Moment" (1964)
Fanatic (1965)
The Young Warriors (1966)
"The Enemy Within" (1966)
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
De Sade (1969)
Duel (1971)
The Night Stalker (1972)
The Night Strangler (1973)
The Legend of Hell House (1973)
Dying Room Only (1973)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1974)
The Morning After (1974)
Scream of the Wolf (1974)
Trilogy of Terror (1975)
Dead of Night (1977)
The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver (1977)
The Martian Chronicles (1980)
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Jaws 3-D (1983)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
"Button, Button" (1986)
Loose Cannons (1990)
The Dreamer of Oz (1990)
Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics (1994)
Trilogy of Terror II (1996)

Adaptations
by others

"And When the Sky Was Opened" (1959)
"Third from the Sun" (1960)
Cold Sweat (1970)
The Omega Man (1971)
The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
What Dreams May Come (1998)
Stir of Echoes (1999)
"Dance of the Dead" (2005)
"My Ambition" (2006)
I Am Legend (2007)
I Am Omega (2007)
The Box (2009)
"The Splendid Source" (2010)
Real Steel (2011)

Related

Richard Christian Matheson (son)
Chris Matheson (son)

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