“I Am Legend” by Richard Matheson is a legendary book, as legendary as the name of its creator. The novel gave rise to a whole direction in literature, from it grew such powerful figures of the modern literary world as Ray Bradbury, Stephen King ... - these two names are enough to assess the power of influence. The best directors of the planet - Steven Spielberg, Roger Corman and others - put on films based on the works of Matheson The second novel included in this book, "The Incredible Shrinking Man", is no less famous than the first. Man is a grain of sand before the dark power of nature, but this small molecule of life must defend itself with all its might in order to prove to itself and to the world its right to earthly existence.