“Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time, What Dreams May Come is the story of a love which transcends death. … I feel that they represent the best writing I have done in the novel form.”

—  Richard Matheson

Introduction to an Omnibus edition of his work, as quoted in Somewhere in Time (1998), p. 318 - 319

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American fiction writer 1926–2013

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