Download or read book Dystopia: Collected Stories written by Richard Christian Matheson and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critically acclaimed collection of Richard Christian Matheson's stories of dread and the 'irreal'. Inescapably troubling and bizarre, these sixty stories are severe and immediate. From Siamese twin country western acts to an alcoholic Santa Claus to movie theaters used as execution chambers, to death by orgasm, to modern-day savages in Hawaii, to beds that have sexual lives of their own, to pleasure by self-mutilation, these stories are a scape of ominous excess and psychological revelation. Matheson's heralded style is, as always, both distilled and hypnotic