Credit: Moviestore / Shutterstock Stir of Echoes deserved better than it got ... the suburban Southern California setting of Matheson's novel. Plus, that scenario seemed played out by the 1990s.

Getting somebody else's story into my head, I thought would be helpful." He found "A Stir of Echoes," a slender 1958 novel by Richard Matheson, perhaps best remembered as one of the most famous ...

"It's the whole reason I wanted to do it," Koepp said of adapting Richard Matheson's 1958 novel, titled A Stir of Echoes. After making his directorial debut with The Trigger Effect — a thriller ...