The Numbered edition of 250 copies is a Millimeter style binding covered in Hahnemühle Bugra with Dubletta cloth trim on the spine and fore edges. The spine label is printed letterpress and the cover features an inset leather label with artwork by Clive Hicks-Jenkins blocked in gold from a brass plate. Each copy is bound by hand and is housed in a clamshell enclosure covered in Dubletta cloth.
The edition is printed letterpress on Mohawk Via Vellum with illustrations printed giclée on Hahnemühle Bugra which are tipped-on. The dust jacket and endsheet illustrations from the Artist state are featured here as frontispieces to the collection and the bonus content respectively. The edition is signed by R.C. Matheson, Clive Hicks-Jenkins and Paul Stuve.
Out of print for more than five decades, Born of Man and Woman is the first short story collection by Richard Matheson, featuring seventeen masterful early works that showcase the author’s unparalleled ability to dive into the dark and mysterious corners of the human psyche.
With over 100 pages of carefully curated bonus material, a new foreword by R.C. Matheson and the introduction from the first edition by Robert Bloch, this is the first limited edition of the collection, offering readers the opportunity to experience Matheson’s mastery of the short story form, as he seamlessly blends science fiction, horror and fantasy with profound existential themes.
From the unsettling title story which kicks off the collection—a harrowing tale of a grotesque creature’s desperate desire for freedom—to the thought-provoking “Third from the Sun” wherein a family attempts to escape impending nuclear disaster, these tales weave themes of existential dread and the supernatural. In “Dress of White Silk,” Matheson delves into the nature of life, death and the afterlife, while “Mad House” explores the terrifying unraveling of reality itself. These stories, among others in the collection provoke philosophical questions, leaving readers with a lingering sense of unease and wonder.
Born of Man and Woman was first published by Chamberlain Press in 1954, featuring fifteen short stories that had been previously published in magazines such as Galaxy, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science-Fiction and Thrilling Wonder Stories between the years 1950 and 1953, plus two new stories (“Dear Diary” and “The Traveller”) that were published for the first time in the collection.
Richard Matheson’s work would go on to influence a legion of writers and artists, with Ray Bradbury referring to him as “one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.” Steven Spielberg has stated, “Richard Matheson’s ironic and iconic imagination created seminal science-fiction stories, and for me, he is in the same category as Bradbury and Asimov,” while Stephen King once noted Matheson is “the author who influenced me most as a writer.”
A definitive collection of terrifying tales, Born of Man and Woman cements Richard Matheson’s legacy as one of the most influential voices in horror and science fiction, offering readers a glimpse into the mind of a master storyteller.
The Numbered edition of 250 copies is a Millimeter style binding covered in Hahnemühle Bugra with Dubletta cloth trim on the spine and fore edges. The spine label is printed letterpress and the cover features an inset leather label with artwork by Clive Hicks-Jenkins blocked in gold from a brass plate. Each copy is bound by hand and is housed in a clamshell enclosure covered in Dubletta cloth.
The edition is printed letterpress on Mohawk Via Vellum with illustrations printed giclée on Hahnemühle Bugra which are tipped-on. The dust jacket and endsheet illustrations from the Artist state are featured here as frontispieces to the collection and the bonus content respectively. The edition is signed by R.C. Matheson, Clive Hicks-Jenkins and Paul Stuve.
Out of print for more than five decades, Born of Man and Woman is the first short story collection by Richard Matheson, featuring seventeen masterful early works that showcase the author’s unparalleled ability to dive into the dark and mysterious corners of the human psyche.
With over 100 pages of carefully curated bonus material, a new foreword by R.C. Matheson and the introduction from the first edition by Robert Bloch, this is the first limited edition of the collection, offering readers the opportunity to experience Matheson’s mastery of the short story form, as he seamlessly blends science fiction, horror and fantasy with profound existential themes.
From the unsettling title story which kicks off the collection—a harrowing tale of a grotesque creature’s desperate desire for freedom—to the thought-provoking “Third from the Sun” wherein a family attempts to escape impending nuclear disaster, these tales weave themes of existential dread and the supernatural. In “Dress of White Silk,” Matheson delves into the nature of life, death and the afterlife, while “Mad House” explores the terrifying unraveling of reality itself. These stories, among others in the collection provoke philosophical questions, leaving readers with a lingering sense of unease and wonder.
Born of Man and Woman was first published by Chamberlain Press in 1954, featuring fifteen short stories that had been previously published in magazines such as Galaxy, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science-Fiction and Thrilling Wonder Stories between the years 1950 and 1953, plus two new stories (“Dear Diary” and “The Traveller”) that were published for the first time in the collection.
Richard Matheson’s work would go on to influence a legion of writers and artists, with Ray Bradbury referring to him as “one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.” Steven Spielberg has stated, “Richard Matheson’s ironic and iconic imagination created seminal science-fiction stories, and for me, he is in the same category as Bradbury and Asimov,” while Stephen King once noted Matheson is “the author who influenced me most as a writer.”
A definitive collection of terrifying tales, Born of Man and Woman cements Richard Matheson’s legacy as one of the most influential voices in horror and science fiction, offering readers a glimpse into the mind of a master storyteller.
