5/22/2023 0 Comments Any Other Name by Alex Nonymous![]() ![]() When his novel I Am Legend was adapted into the 1964 movie The Last Man On Earth, Matheson was so annoyed by changes to his screenplay that he asked to be credited as Logan Swanson. Matheson also chose to distance himself from some of his work-but in his case, it was because he took issue with what editors or filmmakers had done with his work. Readers noticed the similarities, and by the time he’d written a few Bachman books, the secret was out. Unfortunately for him, the experiment didn't last long. King wanted to know whether the success of his 1974 work Carrie was genuinely merited by his writing or just a result of the buzz created around the movie version of the story. Publishing as Bachman was also a test, of sorts. To get around that restriction, King came up with a pseudonym: Richard Bachman. According to his official website, authors in the '70s and '80s were encouraged to release one book per year in order to avoid saturating the market. King has penned more than 50 novels in his career, but that collection would be smaller if his early publishers had their way. ![]()
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