The novel “I Am Legend” by Richard Matheson was published for the first time in 1954.

Robert Neville’s days are spent looking for the vampires who live in the area around his home hiding from the sunlight to go out after sunset. He tries to find and kill as many of them as possible, knowing that at night they will come looking for him to convince him to go out, sometimes attempting an attack to break into his house.

The situation for Robert Neville is difficult because, as far as he knows, he’s the last man left on Earth after a pandemic turned everyone else into vampires. He struggles to remain lucid and all too often gets drunk to escape the despair caused by that situation. He tries to understand the origin and characteristics of vampirism hoping to improve his defenses, but he always risks making fatal mistakes.