I am legend by Richard Matheson

I am Legend by Richard Matheson inspired a lot of movies

Robert Neville seems to be the only survivor of a strange disease that gradually hit others. Day after day, he reproduces the same actions. If things can sometimes seem normal for him, every night, he finds himself trapped home, harassed by his former neighbors and friends, who turned into new kind of vampires.

Brilliant

Those who are attracted to the book because of the movie with Will Smith will be disapponted. Or maybe not. Although the film is very successfull from my point of view, it adds a warrior side that does not initially exists in the character. Neville is fighting every day, but it is against loneliness, despair and penury. In this sense, it is a much more human character.

Richard Matheson develops the idea of a pandemic disease destroying humanity. It will be widely taken up later in films and still exerts a strong influence on our imagination. However, this is not a book about vampires, but rather on the human being, its need for contact and our craze to make a clean sweep on what frightens us.