He researches, searching for answers and here, as in many other ways, the book shines. He is an ordinary man forced to face extraordinary circumstances. He does not understand why he is the only one who has survived, he misses his wife and child – both victims of the plague, he is lonely. During the day he hunts them down, searching for their hiding spots, despatching them.Īs the novel progresses we are given a fascinating look into Neville’s mind.

At night he is holed up in his boarded up house, taunted by the dead, especially by Ben Cortman his former neighbour. Neville survives though his sanity is sorely tested.

They are little more than killing machines, some memory but not much in the way of faculty. As more and more succumbed to the plague the horrific truth is discovered, those who die do not remain dead, they return hungry for blood. It is centred around the character Robert Neville, the lone survivor of a deadly plague which has spread through the world. Written by Richard Matheson and published in 1954 the book has proven very influential, though perhaps not in the way one might imagine.

A grim vision of the end of humanity, this is possibly the best way to describe 'I am Legend'.

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