Staring down at the brook, I remembered a stream near Mammoth Lake. We’d parked the camper just above it and, all night, listened to it splashing across rocks and stones; a lovely sound.

'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn't get that going in my mind. I don't know exactly where the idea of just a man pitting himself against a robot boxer came from.

Come out, Neville.

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.

For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete.