London: SCM Press, 1970. First edition - Trade paperback. A study of religious themes in science fiction.

New York: Facts On File, Inc., 1995. A reference to the creatures of science fiction. The ultimate encyclopedia of the unimaginable, featuring over 100 illustrations and a user-friendly format. Includes accounts of superheroes and spacecraft from places and times unknown. Introduction, Guide for the Reader, 5 Appendices, Index. 372 pgs. ISBN: 0-8160-31134.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (1993). Hardcover first edition - A book which argues that British science fiction and mainstream English literature have been long and fruitfully intertwined - from H. G. Wells and on. Includes commentary on British disaster fiction before and after the Second World War, and especially its focus on catastrophes. List of works cited, index. x, 202 pp. ISBN: 0-313273731.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1977). Hardcover first edition - A look at mysteries which defy rational explanation - ufos, esp, acupuncture, out of body experiences, and more. Bibliography. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-807029564.

London: MIT Press, 1980. A history of science fiction's treatment of artificial intelligence

New York: Citadel Press, (2009). SIGNED first edition - A collection of essays about a writer who shaped modern terror - this "straddles the line between biography and reader's companion." Includes interviews with friends, family members and famous fans, as well as tributes, introductions to various Matheson editions and personal letters by the author and a comprehensive, 150-page bibliography. This copy is SIGNED by FOUR writers at their contributions: William F. Nolan, Dennis Etchison, Joe R. Lansdale and Richard Christian Matheson (both Nolan and Lansdale also signed on the table of contents.) Illustrated with photographs. Notes on the contributors, index. xv, 382 pp. ISBN: 978-0806531137.

New York: Harper & Row, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the primary major approaches to science fiction, from Verne and Wells (who added a strong social conscience, that has continued in science fiction) to Asimov and Vonnegut. Among the other authors whose works he discusses are Michael Crichton, Nabokov, Bradbury, Andre Norton, Harlan Ellison, Tolkien, Robert Silverberg and many others. Index. 122 pp.