Rice posted congratulations to Matheson on her Facebook page, describing his novel as "legendary", and saying the writer had "been an inspiration to me and to so many. "I enjoyed it at the time, never knowing I was going to write a book about vampires and certainly not that it would be derived from the idea I had when I first saw Bela Lugosi." I was pretty tired, I should have gone to sleep," he said. "When I was in the army and the infantry during basic training I would go down to the latrine at night while the other soldiers were sleeping, and I would sit there reading Dracula: why, I don't know. Matheson read Stoker's novel, he said, on nightly trips to the toilet while he was a soldier. "When I was a teenager I went to see Dracula with Bela Lugosi and at that time, even as a teenager, the thought occurred to me that if one vampire is scary, what if all the world were full of vampires?" "I am certainly honoured and delighted that you have chosen I Am Legend as the vampire novel of the century, which is a rather dubious but interesting distinction," said the author.
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