I am Legend

'I am Legend' was a successful 1954 horror fiction novel by American writer Richard Matheson. It was influential in the early development of the zombie genre and in popularizing the concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease. The novel has been variously adapted for film as 'The Last Man on Earth' (1964), 'The Omega Man' (1971) and 'I Am Legend' (2007).

In the original storyline Robert Neville is the apparent sole survivor of a pandemic whose symptoms resemble vampirism. Swarms of vampires, led by Neville's neighbour, regularly surround his house trying to find ways to get to him inside. As the infected slowly develop the means to overcome their symptoms and form a "New Society" Neville comes to realise that they now view him with the same hatred and fear that he once felt for them. He realizes that he, a remnant of old humanity, is now a legend to the new race born of the infection and recognises that their desire to kill him is not something he can really condemn. Finally captured and facing execution Neville thinks:

"I am a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend."

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