“I Am Legend” by Richard Matheson is a truly legendary book, just as the name of its creator is legendary. The novel gave birth to a whole movement in literature, from which 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 on the planet - Steven Spielberg, Roger Corman and others - have directed films based on Matheson's works. 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 both itself and the world its right to earthly existence.