Hell House |
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 | Far more brutal and intense than the disappointing film version, this novel moves along at a great pace, thanks mainly to Matheson's crisp, no-nonsense prose and the fact that the entire action of the story takes place over the course of just a few days as the ghost of cruel and sadistic libertine, Emeric Belasco, concentrates all its efforts on the destruction of a team of squabbling scientists and psychics employed by a dying millionaire to prove that life exists after death. There is so much in this book that didn't make it into the film, and contrary to a previous reviewer's complaint, the Belasco House as it is presented here seems to me to be a magnificent and monstrous monument to Emeric Belasco's decadence and immorality. It's much more effective than the fairly pedestrian, cobwebbed manse that appears in the film version. There are some genuinely shocking sequences in this book (as Matheson once pointed out following criticism of the book's violence and sexual preoccupations, ... read more.
Written by Richard Matheson.
Published 01 January 1971.
Published by Saint Martin's Press Inc..
rrp £8.02.
288 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 0312868855
ISBN-13: 9780312868857 | |
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