Hell House

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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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hat Hell House von Richard Matheson besprochen

Interesting but a little flat

I liked this, but wanted there to be more to it. I think Matheson isn't as successful here as Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House (to compare a haunted house to another) in some aspects because he appears to consider sexual violence as the ultimate horror when it can often seem so commonly exploited in fiction as to be banal rather than tense and shocking. While this book is absolutely not a waste of time, it's not exactly action-packed, surprising, or narratively fulfilling.