Afterwards, he drinks heavily and falls into depression.
Neville narrowly manages to return to his house alive. One evening, his watch stops, so that he’s forced to drive home after sunset and fight past Ben Cortman and the other vampires. Neville has several close calls with the vampires. All night, Neville hears the sound of his old friend and neighbor, Ben Cortman-now a vampire-shouting, “Come out, Neville!” Every day, he travels across the city, impaling sleeping vampires with wooden stakes, and every night, he barricades himself in his house to hide from the vampires (who only come out in the dark). In the city of Los Angeles, a man named Robert Neville has managed to survive by converting his house into a fortress. After their deaths, the world’s human beings rise from the grave and become vampires: sensitive to light, garlic, and mirrors, dormant during the day, and impervious to bullets. The year is 1976-one year after a deadly plague sweeps the world, killing virtually all human beings.
