But how can he know that she truly is a human? He takes her into his home and after a while, they start to feel safe around each other, and hope creeps into his life. One day Robert finds a woman, out in the day, and seemingly as lost as he is. When outside is only death how do you retain the positive aspects of what it means to be human? This dark psychology is brought into sharp focus by the author and offers a dreadful look at humanity at its bleakest. His constant struggle for sanity causes him to fluctuate between lucid purpose-driven activities that might lead toward a better world and a drunken madness borne of loneliness and despair. When Robert isn’t killing these night-time ne’er-do-wells he is repairing his home, researching ways to kill or potentially cure these creatures, and drinking. He resists them and spends his days finding them in their dark hideouts and killing them. What they want is his blood, which is in short supply now that the world is consumed by bloodsuckers. The women pull up their dresses to show him what he is missing and the men call him names and throw rocks. Sometimes the same ones come and sometimes new lunatics show up. These psychos come every night and wait just outside his small home and try to entice him to come out. The story is about the last “normal” human in a world full of night-roving lunatics out to kill him.

I didn’t finish all the additional short stories but I am Legend is a quick read and contains no filler.

These seem unrelated but add to the total page count for the book so I guess that was a marketing thing or something. It is really short and after the I am Legend story there are a bunch of really short stories. I read this book a while back but that was before I was writing book reviews and when I saw it on the shelf I thought that it should be included in my list of book reviews so I read it again.

I am legend richard