Read the following passage and answer if the question is true or false.
Passage: Romero drew inspiration from Richard Matheson's I Am Legend (1954), a horror novel about a plague that ravages a futuristic Los Angeles. The infected in I Am Legend become vampire-like creatures and prey on the uninfected. 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.'' Romero further explained:

Question: is night of the living dead a true story?

Is the answer True or False? Respond with only "True" or "False" and no additional text.
False.