For over twenty years, Belasco House has stood empty. Its shadowed walls have witnessed scenes of almost unimaginable horror and depravity. Two previous expeditions to investigate its secrets met with disaster, the participants destroyed by murder, suicide or insanity. Now a new investigation brings four strangers to the forbidding mansion who are determined to probe Belasco House for the ultimate secrets of life and death. Each has his or her own reason for daring the unknown torments and temptations of the mansion, but ...
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For over twenty years, Belasco House has stood empty. Its shadowed walls have witnessed scenes of almost unimaginable horror and depravity. Two previous expeditions to investigate its secrets met with disaster, the participants destroyed by murder, suicide or insanity. Now a new investigation brings four strangers to the forbidding mansion who are determined to probe Belasco House for the ultimate secrets of life and death. Each has his or her own reason for daring the unknown torments and temptations of the mansion, but can any soul survive what lurks within the most haunted house on Earth? "Hell House is the scariest haunted house novel ever written. It looms over the rest the way the mountains loom over the foothills." -- Stephen King
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Hell House by Richard Matheson is based on a much older -and perhaps truer- real haunted-house story by Edward Bulwer Lytton called "The Haunters and The Haunted" (or "The House and The Brain"). Matheson was very effective in using Belasco find a theosophick or magick means to preserve his astral-etheric body in the house where he had lived for so long. Matheson uses horrifying books from the real annals of medical science. This was shown in the film that was based on Matheson's book. The books, however are real books of pathology and aberrant psychiatry of the turn of the century. Belasco perpetrated satanic sexual pleasures and he also celebrated magickal rituals of a diabolical nature. The film is good and can be easily obtained in DVD. It features an English girl named Pamela Franklin (sic) who must have been a bit witchy herself for she only played English horror films. In conjunction with the novel by Sir Bulwer Lytton, Matheson's book is very effective, really spooky. It deals with satanic worship at a very high theological level. Also, the mentions of medical pathologies, teratologies, and abnormal psychopathologies are very creepy because they were real cases of monstrosities in the medical literature of the Victorian era. Belasco, was, of course, an Englishman, and he must have been a master of the black arts for he found a way to become earth-bound after his death. This method is a creepy Rosicrucian secret.
HesterPrine08
Nov 5, 2008
Did I read this story before?
This story reminded me a lot of "The Haunting of Hill House" but it was a lot more violent and graphic in tone. At the request of a dying millonaire who wants solid proof that there is life after death two mediums a physics professor and his wife agree to stay at the Belasco house for one week. One of the guests is a former child prodigy at mediumship and the only survior at a failed attempt to clean the house. During their stay the house starts play mind games with them and of course what's a good haunted house story without a creepy background some gore and the guests dying off?
This book is called a cult classic and one of the scariest haunted house stories ever written. The only thing I found truly interesting was the background story into what made the house haunted. The owner of the house Belasco "The Roaring Giant" invited his guests to do as the pleased. This does make for a great tense setting for a haunted house, but the characters aren't likeable and you don't really find yourself routing for anyone's survival or their theory to pan out. But if you truly love ghost stories you might want to read this one.
