# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-christian-matheson
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:37:10.927Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-christian-matheson"
name: "Richard Christian Matheson"
slug: "richard-christian-matheson"
description: "Richard Christian Matheson is an American writer of horror fiction and screenplays, the son of fiction writer and screenwriter Richard Matheson. He is the author of over 100 short stories of psychological horror and magic realism which are gathered in over 150 major anthologies and in his critically hailed hardcover short story collections Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks, Amazon #1 bestseller Dystopia, and Zoopraxis."
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birthDate: "1953-10-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump