The novel The Legend of The Vampire Khufu, written by Raymond Mayotte in 2010, deals with king Khufu awakening in his pyramid as a vampire.

Felix Holt, the Radical and The Legend of Jubal were overtly political, and political crisis is at the heart of Middlemarch, in which she presents the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832 ; the novel is notable for its deep psychological insight and sophisticated character portraits.

BattleMech s from the cover of the novel The Legend of the Jade Phoenix by Robert Thurston.

The cover of Nicholas Andrews's humorous fantasy novel " The Adventure Tournament " is a parody of the Legend of Zelda title screen.

Romero drew inspiration from Richard Matheson's I Am Legend ( 1954 ), a horror / science fiction novel about a plague that ravages a futuristic Los Angeles.

Discussing the creation of Night of the Living Dead, Romero remarked, " I had written a short story, which I basically had ripped off from a Richard Matheson novel called I Am Legend.

Official film adaptations of Matheson's novel appeared in 1964 as The Last Man on Earth, in 1971 as The Omega Man, and the 2007 release I Am Legend.

This " zombie " is taken largely from George A. Romero's seminal film The Night of the Living Dead, which was in turn partly inspired by Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend.

** Gateway ( computer game ), two adventure games based on the novel have been created by Legend Entertainment

I Am Legend is a 1954 horror fiction novel by American writer Richard Matheson.

The novel was a success and was adapted to film as The Last Man on Earth in 1964, as The Omega Man in 1971, and as I Am Legend in 2007, along with a direct-to-video 2007 production capitalizing on that film, I Am Omega.

Galaxy reviewer Groff Conklin described Legend as " a weird rather slow-moving first novel ... a horrid, violent, sometimes exciting but too often overdone tour de force.

Though referred to as " the first modern vampire novel ", it is as a novel of social theme that I Am Legend made a lasting impression on the cinematic zombie genre, by way of director George A. Romero, who acknowledged its influence and that of its 1964 adaptation, The Last Man on Earth, upon his seminal film Night of the Living Dead ( 1968 ).

Discussing the creation of Night of the Living Dead, Romero remarked, " I had written a short story, which I basically had ripped off from a Richard Matheson novel called I Am Legend.

* Chapters 37 and 38 of Jin Yong's Wuxia novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes briefly portray the Mongolian siege of Samarkand in March 1220.

The novel was adapted into three movies: The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price in 1964, The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston in 1971, and I am Legend ( film ) starring Will Smith in 2007.

* Chryse, fictional planet in the novel The Legend That Was Earth

* Hereward is portrayed as a prototype Robin Hood, but also a drug-taking, psychopathic arsonist, in Mike Ripley's novel The Legend of Hereward the Wake ( 2007 ).

Also in the 1960s, the film Omega Man ( loosely based on the Richard Matheson novel I am Legend ) showed a world scarred by biological warfare and only a handful of humans and a cult of mutants remain alive.

* Farnham's Legend, a science fiction novel, based on the X computer game series

* The Nadir, a fictional tribe in the novel Legend and other works by David Gemmell

In the Andy Seto graphic novel series " Saint Legend ", the Eight Immortals reappear to protect the Buddhist faith from evil spirits set on destroying it.

Ashes of Time ( Dōng xié xi dú ) is a 1994 Hong Kong film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai, and loosely based on four characters from Jin Yong's novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes.

Tad Williams ' 1997 novel Caliban's Hour ( US: HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-06-105413-6 and UK: Legend Books, ISBN 0-09-926361-0 ) takes place 20 years after the events of The Tempest.

The following twelve members have been promoted to the status of " Legend " since 1996: Ian Stewart ( 1997 ), Gordon Coventry ( 1998 ), Peter Hudson ( 1999 ), Kevin Bartlett ( 2000 ), Barrie Robran ( 2001 ), Bill Hutchison ( 2003 ), Jock McHale ( 2005 ), Darrel Baldock ( 2006 ), Norm Smith ( 2007 ), Alex Jesaulenko ( 2008 ), Kevin Murray ( 2010 ) and Barry Cable ( 2012 ).

In his book the Blitzkrieg Legend, German historian Karl-Heinz Frieser also shares Adam Tooze ' ( in his work The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy ), Overy's and Naveh's concerns over the myth of the blitzkrieg economic and strategy.

* Ceres, Celestial Legend ( Ayashi no Ceres ), an anime / manga work

She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards ( World Film Favorite ), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

* Ryu Suzaku, the protagonist of the anime series F-Zero: Legend of the Falcon ( F-Zero GP Legend ), also known to the Western audiences as Rick Wheeler

The Revolutionary War-era " American Gothic " story of the Headless Horseman, immortalized in Washington Irving's story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " ( published in 1820 ), marked the arrival in the New World of dark, romantic story-telling.

* Hyperion ( Legend of the Galactic Heroes ), the flagship of Yang Wen-li

The story has been recounted in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women, John Gower's Confessio Amantis ( Book VII ), and John Lydgate's Fall of Princes.

Professor Ginzberg wrote 406 articles and several monograph-length entries for the Jewish Encyclopedia ( Levy 2002 ), some later collected in his Legend and Lore.

Murat Ses's composition, Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi ( The Legend of Mount Ararat ), was inspired by ancient legends of the Great Flood in different cultures.

Like the 1992 remake of The Last of the Mohicans and Geronimo: An American Legend ( 1993 ), Dances with Wolves employed a number of Native American actors, and made an effort to portray Indigenous languages.

Dr. Meldrum has written extensively about Wallace, his allegations ( continued by his family after his death ), and the significant problems with them in his book Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science.

* Video games: Secret of Mana and its successor Secret of Evermore ( where the menu was used to accelerate the pacing of combat ), Seiken Densetsu 3, America's Army 3, Habitat, Beyond Good & Evil, Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, Neverwinter Nights, Normality, The Sims, Perfect Dark, Planescape: Torment, Sacrifice, Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Second Life, Battlefield 2, Freedom Fighters, Ratchet & Clank, Silver, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Crysis, Mass Effect, Warzone 2100, Halo Wars, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, Max Payne 3, Trauma Center, Brütal Legend, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Dragon Age: Origins, Prototype, Cortex Command, Imperium Romanum

Specifically, a Mario game ( titled Hotel Mario ), and three Legend of Zelda games were released: Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon and Zelda's Adventure.

* Consistency in his choice of composers, using Jerry Goldsmith ( Alien and Legend ), Vangelis ( Blade Runner and 1492: Conquest of Paradise ), Hans Zimmer ( Black Rain, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, Hannibal, Black Hawk Down and Matchstick Men ) or Marc Streitenfeld ( A Good Year, American Gangster, Body of Lies, Robin Hood and Prometheus ).

The poem has been adapted to film twice, on both occasions by writer-director Stephen Weeks: first as Gawain and the Green Knight in 1973 and again in 1984 as Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, featuring Miles O ' Keeffe as Gawain and Sean Connery as the Green Knight.

After working for years on a script of Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes ( 1984 ) he grew dissatisfied with the production and credited his dog, P. H.

* Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes ( 1984 )

His seminal book on the topic, Legend of the Free State of Jones, originally published by University Press of Mississippi in 1984 ( in reprint as of 2009 ), was the first scholarly book on the events in Jones County before and during the American Civil War.

* Leverett, Rudy H., Legend of the Free State of Jones, University Press of Mississippi, 1984, 2nd printing 2009.

*" Muggles ", a race in RAH ( later retitled The Legend of Rah and the Muggles ), a 1984 book by Nancy Stouffer

* Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes ( 1984 )

He played the sixth Earl of Greystoke in the 1984 film Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, for which he was again nominated for an Academy Award.

* Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes ( 1984 )

( 1966 ), in which he played a Norman Bates-like character reminiscent of Psycho ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ), in which he played Acres, a dining room attendant ; The Legend of Hell House ( 1973 ), in which he played a physical medium assigned to a team attempting to crack the secret of the Belasco House ; Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry ( 1974 ); Evil Under the Sun ( 1982 ); Class of 1984 ( 1982 ); Fright Night ( 1985 ), in which he played Peter Vincent, a television host and moderator of telecast horror films ; and Overboard ( 1987 ) in which he played a kind-hearted butler.

In the 1980s, he had memorable roles in Time Bandits ( 1981 ), Greystoke-The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes ( 1984 ) and Terry Gilliam's Brazil ( 1985 ).

* Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes ( 1984 )-Lord Charles Esker

Among Kennan's numerous other awards and distinctions were the Testimonial of Loyal and Meritorious Service from the Department of State ( 1953 ), Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Nation's Service ( 1976 ), the Order of the Pour le Mérite ( 1976 ), the Albert Einstein Peace Prize ( 1981 ), the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade ( 1982 ), the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal ( 1984 ), the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service ( 1985 ), the Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation Freedom from Fear Medal ( 1987 ), the Presidential Medal of Freedom ( 1989 ), the Distinguished Service Award from the Department of State ( 1994 ), and the Library of Congress Living Legend ( 2000 ).

# " Superdimension SF Legend Rall " ( December 3, 1984 )

He was featured prominently in the films Fireman, Save My Child ( with Spike Jones, 1954 ), The Day of the Locust ( 1975 ), W. C. Fields and Me ( 1976 ), The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington ( 1977 ), Foul Play and The Lord of the Rings ( both 1978 ), Under the Rainbow ( 1981 ), Night Patrol ( 1984 ), Legend ( 1985 ), Masters of the Universe ( 1987 ), Willow ( 1988 ), UHF ( 1989 ), Life Stinks ( 1991 ) and Radioland Murders ( 1994 ).

In the 1980s, she also supervised scripts of the television show Coward of the County ( 1982 ) and the television films The Shadow Riders ( 1983 ), Missing Children: A Mother's Story ( 1983 ), Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues ( 1984 ), Velvet ( 1984 ), and My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn ( 1985 ).

* Legend LP by Bob Marley-album photo ( 1984 )

* Legend ( Bob Marley & The Wailers album ), 1984

* Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ( 1984 )

* Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ( 1984 )

He also wrote stories of his own, including The Legend of the Paper Spaceship, which first appeared in English translation in 1984 and has appeared in several collections.

Three more movie adaptations have been made to date ; Greystoke-The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes ( 1984 ), a film starring Christopher Lambert that is more faithful to the book, Tarzan of the Apes ( 1999 ), a direct to video animated film, and Tarzan ( 1999 ), a Disney animated film with Tony Goldwyn as the voice of Tarzan.

Charleson's other feature film roles are: punk-era Angel in his film debut Jubilee ( 1977 ) directed by Derek Jarman ; Lt. Ryder in the Golden Bear-winning " Irish question " film Ascendancy ( 1982 ), which starred Julie Covington ; a small role as the abusive drunk Jeffson Brown in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan ( 1984 ); a comedic turn as Gerald Spong in the rather ill-fated Car Trouble ( 1985 ), opposite his friend Julie Walters ; and opera director Marco in Dario Argento's horror film Opera ( 1987 ).