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Sometime in 2019 I suppose? I have read a lot of Matheson shorts, plus the novels The Shrinking Man, Stir of Echoes, I Am Legend, and What Dreams May Come. I don't see much room for sequels or shared universe in any of these, so I imagine the idea of simply copying the style is correct, much as The Haunted Bicuspid aped De Camp's style. Theoretically, IAL could have a sequel describing the next generation of intelligent plague-vampires and the culture they build, but I doubt the book's target audience have any desire to read such a story.

"The Halls of the Montezumas" immediately suggests the US Marines, but knowing both Matheson and Turtledove, I imagine it more likely to be an urban fantasy involving Aztec mythology, in the vein of Toxic Spell Dump and Birdwitching.