The sight of the coin pushes him to the present. Managing to return to his room, Richard casually picks a coin out of his pocket, realizing too late that it was a coin from 1970. One night when Richard is leaving his room, he bumps into Robinson (Elise’s manager), and they fight. Suspecting that Richard is after Elise’s money, her manager becomes hostile to him. Soon, they start a romantic relationship. He meets Elise but is tongue-tied, and to his surprise, she asks him, ”Is it you?”. He discovers a way to send himself to the past with his mind and succeeds after many tries, finding himself in the 1890s. At the hotel, the photograph of a popular stage actress, Elise Mckenna, who used to work there in the 1890s, mesmerizes him. ‘The Shrinking Man’ has been adapted into the 1957 film ‘The Incredible Shrinking Man’ and served as the basis for the 1981 film ‘The Incredible Shrinking Woman.’ It has also inspired a fascination with shrinking things and people in generations of filmmakers and authors.Īfter being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, Richard Collier decides, on a toss of a coin, to spend the rest of his remaining life around the Hotel Del Coronado. Scott has to learn to navigate life as he continues to shrink in size, and everyday objects and animals which he used to overlook become mortal threats. This novel was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name in 1998.Īfter ingesting an insecticide and then being caught in a radioactive cloud while on holiday, Scott Carey discovers, to his great distress, that he is shrinking at a rate of 36mm per day. When he learns of his wife’s suicide and her confinement to a bleak region below Summerland, he decides to rescue her with Albert’s help.

After a while, he follows the man’s advice and wakes up in Summerland, an endless plane that takes the form of the desires of its inhabitant. Albert tells him to concentrate on pleasant memories and a life outside the mortal plane. At first, he thinks he is still alive but caught in a nightmare till he is approached by a man who later turns out to be his cousin Albert.

Published in 1954, the novel has been adapted into three films and has inspired generations of authors, screenwriters, and filmmakers.Īfter he died of his injuries following a car crash, Chris Nielson discovers that he is still conscious.

Inexplicably immune to this bacteria, the protagonist, Robert Neville, tries to keep the monsters of the night away from his home while struggling to survive in a world that has changed and left him behind. The bacteria turned its victims into vampiric creatures who can only be killed by sunlight and stakes through their chests. ‘I Am Legend ‘ is a dystopian novel set in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles in the immediate aftermath of a nuclear war that caused cataclysmic environmental conditions and a weekly dust storm that helped spread the spores of a dangerous bacteria, triggering a plague.

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