Hell House
Last night I finished reading Hell House by Richard Matheson. It's not the first time I've read the book, but for whatever reason this time just seemed to be more enjoyable than previous read throughs. Maybe it's because I'm working on my own haunted house novel? Maybe. If you've never read Hell House, I highly recommend it if you're a fan of the Old Dark House genre - it definitely lives up to its name! The basic plot of the book goes something like this: A eccentric millionaire hires a parapsychologist to determine the facts if life after death is real or not, and is sent to an old mansion in the middle of Maine called the Belasco House a.k.a. Hell House due to its sinister reputation. The parapsychologist, Dr. Barrett, is joined by his wife, Edith, along with a Spiritualist medium called Florence Tanner, and Benjamin Franklin Fischer, who was the most gifted physical medium in America in his prime, and the only survivor of the previous attempt to "find ...