I Am Legend

Item

Title

I Am Legend

Creator

Description

From the back cover: "Every night they surround my last stronghold, these vampires from another world. In the darkness, they scream obscenities at me. No matter how many I kill, still they come at me. How long before they reach me?"

Date

1964, originally published 1954

Publisher

Bantam Books

annotates

I Am Legend has been adapted into film three times: The Last man on Earth (1964); The Omega Man (1971); I Am Legend (2007).

Format

17.5 cm long, 10.5 cm wide, 1.5 cm tall

Cover Description

A man wearing a mask holds a bat or club as if to swing on a small crowd of advancing humanoid creatures with distorted faces.

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