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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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Jim's Review

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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 this worm had a blast being horrified. Sometimes you want filet mignon, sometimes you want a greasy horror burger.

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