by Richard Matheson
I really enjoyed reading this one! I watched the movie starring Kevin Bacon when it came out and I thought it did a great job with updating this source material into modern times. They do keep some of the same elements here and there, though they change the person who was murdered and why. I liked t...
bookshelves: published-1999, winter20092010, boo-scary, fraudio, mystery-thriller, north-americas Read in November, 2009 When Tom Wallace is hypnotised at a dinner party, strange abilities are awoken within him Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities...
Another Matheson great. Tom Wallace was placed under hypnosis one night at a party by his brother-in-law (unlike the movie). When he awakes he finds that he is able to sense what other people are thinking and feeling, and he seems to have picked up a person from the past who finds his new opennes...
I love reading Richard Matheson's stories. Even if the story itself isn't quite to my taste, and not everything he writes is, the writing is so enjoyable to read. I don't know what it is about it that makes it so, but it's just so accessible and straightforward and unassuming, and it just hooks me r...
While different from the movie of the same name with Kevin Bacon, this is a fine story about a man who acquires an psi ability and the way it uproots his world in the days following. The language and situations might be a bit outdated in areas, but the story overall still has a strong sense of reso...
When Tom Wallace is hypnotised at a dinner party, strange abilities are awoken within him. Trevor White reads. Broadcast:http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p4y6p/A_Stir_of_Echoes_Episode_1/
Matheson rarely fails to impress. Stir of Echoes is one of his novels that grabs you in the first couple of pages and holds your attention. All meat, no filler.
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