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I Am Legend

Richard Matheson · 1954

312 pages

Robert Neville believes he is the last human in a world overrun by people transformed by a plague. By day he hunts them and repairs his house; by night they besiege it, and he tries to understand what the survivors have become.

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Post-Apocalyptic World, Apocalypse, Survival, Vampires, Outcast Hero, Sympathetic Monster

Content warnings: Suicide, Animal death

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