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Title: Hell House by Richard Matheson ISBN: 0-312-86885-5 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 13 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.32 (90 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Read at your own risk!
Comment: Do you believe in ghosts? Would you live in a haunted house where people that have lived their had become insane and even killed themselves. What if you lived their for some time, and be rewarded 100,000 dollars if you survive. Some authors say that they have writen some pretty scary books that you have never even thought of, books that will make you quite scared. That is not true for most readers who considor horror books. Most mature readers dislike books that have classical horror for example, characters in the story who actually become friends with ghosts, or giant spiders taking over the world. "Hell house" actually puts you in a actual situation where you are in a haunted house where anything is possible. If your a reader who is in horror stories, this is the book for you. The reason why I rated this a 5 was because of its very discriptive way of describing the scene and situation. It describes how everybody is feeling and thinking so that you know exactly whats going on. The book doesn't have a slow start where it gives you a list of characters and describes each of them. It goes with the flow. The book is similar to the movie "House on a Haunted Hill", where a group of people are rewarded money if they stay in a house for sometime. "Hell house" is a more realistic kind of book that takes place in the 60's. It doesn't give you that "blood and guts everywhere", kind of description. This book will seriously give you nightmares. You'll be shocked and scared if you were actually a character in this book and how much you will go through. I highly recommend this for mature readers for its sexual content.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best haunted house novel!
Comment: Wow, Richard Matheson sets the perfect pace in this surprisingly spooky novel! Not your average pulp horror, it jumps immediately into the flames of hell house, and gradually builds the suspense and fear to impressive levels before then ending. I never felt the tension let up as it does in most horror novels, and he mixes in some jolts of fright which are truly impressive.
This is a GREAT novel to read late at night in a quiet house. Seriously. You will crap your pants.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Horror!
Comment: This is one of the few horror novels I read where parts actually scared me! Four people spend a week at a haunted house for $100,000. Similiarly, several years earlier four people did the same thing and three died and one was practically driven mad!
Almost immediately upon arriving things start happening, some being very life-threatening. When reading this book you wonder what is keeping the people from just getting the hell outta there (I know I would!).
We find out that the house was originally owned by a mad rich person that liked to have wild orgy-like parties that started moving into torture, murder, cannabalism and anything else you can think of (I wonder if Stanely Kubrick got the idea for his mansion in Eyes Wide Shut from this book?). Because of all the evil and death that have occurred in the house, there is a lot of evil energy floating around that seems to be amplified by two of the guests (both mediums with very strong psychic abilities).
Some of the attacks on the guests turn out quite gruesome (one of the guests is viciously attacked by a possessed cat).
Don't read this one when you're alone!
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Title: I Am Legend by Richard Matheson ISBN: 031286504X Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson ISBN: 0140071083 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: June, 1984 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Ghost Story by Peter Straub ISBN: 0671685635 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Nightmare At 20,000 Feet : Horror Stories by Richard Matheson, Stephen King ISBN: 0312878273 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 05 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson ISBN: 0812572122 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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