The story of a man who, under the influence of radiation and insecticides, begins to inexorably shrink to microscopic sizes. The fame of R. Matheson truly knows no bounds: his works have been translated into many languages of the world, films based on his scripts have been shot by such eminent directors as Roger Corman, Steven Spielberg and others have long become classics of cinema. No wonder Ray Bradbury called R. Matheson one of the most important writers of the 20th century, and Stephen King claimed that this author had the greatest influence on him. R. Matheson’s work is difficult to unambiguously attribute to any genre - it is rather a combination of mysticism and high literature , but made with such skill that any of his work, be it a novel or a short story, is read in one sitting.