Hell House
by Richard Matheson
3/5
Tor Books 301 pages June 1, 1971
A dying millionaire hires a team of investigators to determine whether life after death exists by spending a week in the notorious Belasco House — the "Mount Everest of haunted houses." Previous expeditions ended in madness and death, and this one won't go any better. Matheson's answer to The Haunting of Hill House.
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If Hill House is the elegant, restrained haunted house novel, Hell House is its unhinged, no-holds-barred sibling. Matheson cranks everything up to eleven — the scares, the psychic phenomena, the sheer nastiness of it all. Jim respects the audacity. The Belasco House is a character unto itself, and its history is genuinely disturbing. It's pulpier than Jackson's classic, but being horrified has rarely been this much fun. Sometimes you want filet mignon, sometimes you want a greasy horror burger.
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