Uhhhh..... Okaaaayyy..... Hell House was an odd ghost story, and it really should have been a story that I hated. It had a lot of perversity and depravity to it, and a lot of weird sexual violence. Books that contain those sort of things usually don't last long in my hands. In this case, thou...
When physicist Lionel Barrett asks for a list of phenomena observed in the Belasco house, popularly known as Hell House, it contains about a hundred alphabetical entries, of which the following are the P's:"...Paraffin molds; Parakinesis; Paramnesia; Paresthesia; Percussion; Phantasmata; Poltergeist...
Confession time: I could not bring myself to read Richard Matheson's Hell House late at night. It creeped me out that much. This has to be one of the most disturbing and chilling haunted house stories I have ever read. The book messes with your head, and I admit it was even a big inspiration for my ...
Rating: 4.5 of 5Hell House is built on a classic framework and then filled with modern sensibilities and indulgences; it's basically an R-rated version of The Haunting of Hill House.Here's the lowdown:Dr. Lionel Barrett, a physicist who's studied parapsychology for twenty years, doesn't believe in g...
It wasn't that scary, and the horror was slow building but it wasn't bad just didn't horrify me. Idk. It was like horror light or the diet coke of horror.
I think this is going to be a hard book to review. It has a reputation as one of the scariest haunted house books ever written, and I went in with high expectations. There are some genuinely scary moments in there, but in the end, it just didn't do it for me.It's very much a produce of its times, in...
Found this book cliche and a bad knock off of Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House". I have read others' reviews and started to believe that maybe I missed something, but was happy to see that there are others out there that agree with my assessment.
I wish I could give this book more stars but I can't. This book gripped me from the beginning but....Without giving too much away, I just felt the ending was so flat and predictable. There could have been so much more creativity and creepiness to add to the ending. It was like Matheson felt like ...
Once again, Richard Matheson shows why he's the man. I read this book after reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, and of the two, there is no doubt which I prefer. The Haunting of Hill House wasn't so much scary or creepy was it was atmospheric and interpretable. You can see anythin...
I suppose it's not surprising to compare 'Hell House' with The Haunting of Hill House as they rank among the top haunted house stories ever written. They are very different beasts, however. In many ways Hell House looms larger then Hill House, its rooms are bigger, its past more vile, the visitors a...
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