Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Horror Writers Association in 1991. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in 2010. At the annual World Fantasy Conventions, he won two judged, annual literary awards for particular works: World Fantasy Awards for Bid Time Return as the best novel of 1975 and Richard Matheson: Collected Stories as the best collection of 1989. Matheson died just days before he was due to receive the Visionary Award at the 39th Saturn Awards ceremony. As a tribute, the ceremony was dedicated to him and the award was presented posthumously. Academy president Robert Holguin said, "Richard's accomplishments will live on forever in the imaginations of everyone who read or saw his inspired and inimitable work." Influence Other writers Stephen King has listed Matheson as a creative influence, and his novels Cell (2006) and Elevation (2018) are dedicated to Matheson, along with filmmaker George A. Romero. Romero frequently acknowledged Matheson as an inspiration and listed the shambling vampire creatures that appear in The Last Man on Earth, the first film version of I Am Legend, as the inspiration for the zombie "ghouls" he envisioned in Night of the Living Dead. Anne Rice stated that Matheson's short story "A Dress of White Silk" was an early influence on her interest in vampires and fantasy fiction. Directors After his death, several figures offered tributes to his life and work. Director Steven Spielberg said: Another frequent collaborator, Roger Corman, said: On Twitter, director Edgar Wright wrote, "If it's true that the great Richard Matheson has passed away, 140 characters can't begin to cover what he has given the sci fi & horror genre." Director Richard Kelly added, "I loved Richard Matheson's writing and it was a huge honor getting to adapt his story 'Button, Button' into a film. RIP." Works NovelsSomeone Is Bleeding (1953); filmed as Icy BreastsFury on Sunday (1953)I Am Legend (1954); filmed as The Last Man on Earth (1964), The Omega Man (1971), I Am Omega (2007) and I Am Legend (2007)The Shrinking Man (1956); filmed as The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) and subsequently reprinted under that title; also the basis of the film The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)A Stir of Echoes (1958); filmed as Stir of Echoes (1999)Ride the Nightmare (1959); adapted as an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and later filmed as Cold Sweat (1970)The Beardless Warriors (1960); filmed as The