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Hell House Paperback – Oct. 13 1999

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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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"Hell House is the scariest haunted house novel ever written. It looms over the rest the way the mountains loom over the foothills." --Stephen King

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Richard Matheson was The New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, The Beardless Warriors, The Path, Seven Steps to Midnight, Now You See It…, and What Dreams May Come, among others. He was named a Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention, and received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He has also won the Edgar, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. In 2010, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. In addition to his novels Matheson wrote several screenplays for movies and TV, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," based on his short story, along with several other Twilight Zone episodes. He was born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn, and fought in the infantry in World War II. He earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. Matheson died in June, 2013, at the age of eighty-seven.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tor Books; First Edition (Oct. 13 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0312868855
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312868857
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 386 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.93 x 20.96 cm

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Richard Matheson was born in 1926. He began publishing SF with his short story 'Born of Man and Woman' in 1950. I Am Legend was published in 1954 and subsequently filmed as The Omega Man (in 1971), starring Charlton Heston, and I Am Legend (in 2007), starring Will Smith. Matheson wrote the script for the film The Incredible Shrinking Man, an adaptation of his second SF novel The Shrinking Man. The film won a Hugo award in 1958. He wrote many screenplays as well as episodes of The Twilight Zone. He continued to write short stories and novels, some of which formed the basis for film scripts, including Duel, directed by Steven Spielberg in 1971. A film of his novel What Dreams May Come was released in 1998, starring Robin Williams. Stephen King has cited Richard Matheson as a creative influence on his work.

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Steve Yardley

Wow, not for the faint of Heart.

Reviewed in Canada on October 29, 2023

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I was 19 when I first read this book. Blew me away then and I'm now 68....and it's a horror Stephen King says affected him when he was young. The movie is great butt...reading this book is Truly a mind bender. I've been through and seen alot in my life-time, good and bad. But this Book? Blows me away. Buy this if you are open to be scared and horrified. Honestly. Buy the movie first and then read the book. You won't be disappointed.

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ron haslock

Horror lovers will like this

Reviewed in Canada on July 20, 2015

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Being a staunch King and Koontz fan, I went into this with trepidation but was pleasantly surprised. Good story. Good flow and identifiable and likable characters.

Creepy in parts for sure which is always alright by me.

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Taylor Epp

Get ready to get creeped

Reviewed in Canada on September 26, 2020

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Stephen King (yes, that Stephen King) recommenced this book.
I can see why.
It felt as though he could have wrote it himself.

A creepy read from beginning to end.

Beware: a lot of crude and vulgar talk. If you like scary but are sensitive to that stuff, don’t read.

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Christopher Wanko

Last hundred or so pages pulls it out of a tailspin.

Reviewed in Canada on June 2, 2003

I'm a huge fan of "I Am Legend" and Mr. Matheson's short stories have always been little gems to me. His writing style and imaginative ideas in a haunted house setting would seem ideal, but the beginning chapters of the book were fairly boring.
I suppose I'm used to being creeped out in the first fifty pages, or perhaps I prefer more feelings of dread and anxiety, but after the first hundred pages I kept wondering if I was ever going to get a real fright.
Good thing I hung in there. The book started scaring ... me at about two-thirds in and didn't relent. The turning point was more overt interactions of the house with the guests, and the misdirection working to unseat sanity from their minds.
Now, as compared to some real page-turning horror novels, this one stands as a very good effort with some flaws. Dialogue, some characterizations, some plot devices didn't work as well as I expected. Still, putting it in its place among novels along a timeline, it is a solid novel and it will deliver if you hang in there.
However, it does not surpass "Salem's Lot" or "It" from Stephen King for pure "how the heck am I gonna get to sleep tonight?" anxiety. It does edge out "The Shining", however, and here's an interesting final thought: what if Stanley Kubrick made this book into a movie instead of "The Shining"? I think it might've been the most lethal film ever made...

Reviewed in Canada on June 4, 2017

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Loved every thrill packed second, terrifying but with a solid underlying story that kept me hooked until the last page.

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Cath

Keeps you turning pages until the very end - good build-up, well-written, highly entertaning.

Reviewed in Canada on December 15, 2017

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Very readable, well paced (though maybe a teeny bit slow to start). Loved the denouement, and how you're kept guessing until the end when it gets satisfactority explained. The characters are well drawn out, and their interaction is both central to the plot but also well written, well thought out. I really enjoyed it - a dark house with a dark, nasty secret, that will keep you turning pages until the final reveal at the very end.

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Ken Jensen

readability

Reviewed in Canada on May 1, 2021

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good story

Reviewed in Canada on October 22, 2015

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It's ok but the movie was better.

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RICHARD

O "Everest" das casas mal assombradas

Reviewed in Brazil on September 3, 2023

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Um dos melhores e mais assustadores livros de horror já escritos. Obra orima do genial Richard Matheson, por muitos anos esgotada, mas de volta agora em capa dura. Provavelmente a casa assombrada mais sinistra do gênero, Hell House faz justiça ao título. Ganhou ótima adaptaçãp para o cinema, com o título "A Casa da Noite Eterna", que fez muita gente dormir de luz acesa nos anos 70.

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Yvette R.

Great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 18, 2023

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Really enjoyed this book. Highly recommend, keeps you on your toes. Gutted it's finished....loved the whole suspense of the story.

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Arno Gündisch

Willkommen in der Horrorshow

Reviewed in Germany on February 5, 2022

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1970: Ein Team von paranormalen Investigatoren soll im Auftrag eines exzentrischen Milliardärs das legendäre "Hell House" erforschen, das zu Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts der Schauplatz ungeahnter Perversionen und Greueltaten war, geleitet vom geheinmisvoll-dämonischen Emeric Belasco. Die letzte paranormale Forschung fand 1940 statt-es gab nur einen Überlebenden: Benjamin Fischer. Dieser ist 1970 wieder dabei-zusammen mit der Spiritualistin Florence Tanner und dem Forscher Dr. Lionel Barrett, der mit seiner Frau reist und eine eigene Apparatur zum Vertreiben von "residualer Energie" entwickelt hatte. Im Hell House soll sie ihren Test bestehen.
Was immer die Vier erwarteten-es wird um ein Vielfaches übertroffen. Der Geist der Protagonisten wird ebenso wie ihre Körper angegriffen und lange Zeit scheint der zerstörerische Geist des Hauses die Oberhand zu behalten. Doch dann tritt eine unerwartete Wendung ein..
Wer einen modernen Spukhaus-Roman der Oberklasse genießen will, ist mit "Hell-House" bestens bedient. Am besten nachts beim Licht einer Schreibtischlampe lesen, dann gruselt es sich leichter...

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Charles Bell

A legendary house of horror.

Reviewed in Spain on March 4, 2021

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This has to be a classic horror story. Dark and unpleasant throughout it sets the benchmark of tales from beyond the grave.

Alex V.

Fabulosa historia de una casa embrujada

Reviewed in Mexico on February 19, 2016

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Hell House es una excelente historia del escritor de "I am legend", donde un grupo de investigadores acuden a revelar los sucesos detrás de la casa Hell House, sin saber las cosas que encontrarán ahí.

La historia es fabulosa, llena de misterio, terror, suspenso y te mantiene al borde del asiento en todo momento, adivinando y pensando en las cosas que te describe.

Tiene una alta connotación sexual, con descripciones muy gráficas pero que no están con la finalidad de generar morbo, sino que son esenciales para el desarrollo de la trama.

El libro es una muy buena edición, de tamaño regular en pasta suave. Es un libro corto el cual terminarás algo rápido y más al estar tan adentrado en la historia.

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