![]() ![]() Deutsch is willing to pay them $100,000 each to bring him proof that the afterlife either exists or it doesn’t. ![]() Lionel Barrett, a physicist with an interest in parapsychology, along with two mediums: Florence Tanner, former Hollywood actress and now a mental medium and Spiritualist and Benjamin Franklin Fisher, a physical medium and the only survivor of an earlier attempt to investigate Hell House in 1940. A dying billionaire, Rolf Rudolph Deutsch, hires Dr. as if we are always just missing the hands at three, or twelve, or six.Īs far as the actual story goes, it has a classically ominous beginning to a haunted house tale. Matheson creates tension in Hell House in a couple of very effective ways: the book is broken into days, rather than chapters, which gives the feeling of time inexorably moving forward, no matter what the time stamps introducing each scene are listed in a way that is somehow unnerving, such as 3:17 p.m., 11:47 a.m., 6:11 p.m. The first thing I noticed was an immediate build-up of tension. It takes the basic premise of The Haunting of Hill House – that there’s a scientist and his wife, and two people who have had prior experience with the paranormal and that together they will spend a week in a very famous haunted house for the purpose of scientific research into the supernatural – and really takes it up several notches. Hell House, by Richard Matheson, is one of the best haunted house novels ever written. ![]()
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