Hell House

by Richard Matheson

Paperback, 256 pages

English language

Published Sept. 22, 1973 by Corgi Childrens.

ISBN:: 978-0-552-09176-3
OCLC Number:: 16255993

(32 reviews)

Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newpaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death. Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been abandoned and sealed since 1949 after a decade of drug addiction, alcoholism, and debauchery. For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townfolks refer to it as the Hell House

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nothing but joey reviewed Hell House by Richard Matheson

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4 stars

Hell House è stato perfetto, ma imperfetto. A mio avviso è stato un libro eccezionale. E' stato perfettamente disturbante quanto basta e ho amato questa sua caratteristica. Di Matheson avevo letto solo Io sono leggenda (di cui ho visto pure il film) quindi sapevo (ma anche no) a cosa andavo incontro leggendo questo libro. E' stato disturbante in alcuni punti e spaventoso in molte maniere, alle volte persino orribile. Però l'ho amato, davvero! E' stato un bellissimo mix di cose che mi aggradano e mi sono veramente appassionata a questa lettura.

Court reviewed Hell House by Richard Matheson

unnecessarily sexual

2 stars

Lots of sexual assault, and women getting possessed and ripping their shirts off. Some homophobia. Characters a little basic, the main "twist"(?) was kinda what they set you up for from the beginning. Lots of terrible things happen, but I don't get the fear or dread that I get from Shirley Jackson's work, for example.

Caffeinated Book Dragon reviewed Hell House by Richard Matheson

Creeped the hell out of me, and I was grinning a mile wide in fascination the whole time!

5 stars

Holy Crap. Easily the most disturbing, intense, scary read I've had in nonfiction...I couldn't stop until I'd finished it, even with a bad head cold. That was a crazy ride, and the visuals...whoa. Disturbing and a half.