Who - or what - is the source of the haunting is the central question posed by Dennis Mahoney.Ĭharlotte, obsessed with a 90-year-old library patron, Leonard Stick, frequently visits him after work in his purportedly haunted building. “Every room we enter is immediately haunted,” exclaims Charlotte, a librarian and occult enthusiast, in the opening line.
This pensive, surreal novel employs a decidedly ontological approach to the ghost story. Yet one would be hard pressed to describe the somber tone and strange goings-on in “Ghostlove” as optimistic. From the moment William moves into a haunted brownstone, there is no ambiguity as to whether supernatural phenomena are occurring or if there is some sort of afterlife. “Richard Matheson is one of the giants of genre writing.If the existence of a ghost is proof of an afterlife, then one can argue ghost stories are ultimately optimistic. “Perhaps no author is as responsible for chilling a generation with tantalizing nightmare visions.” - The New York Times “One of those who have moved imaginative fiction from the sidelines into the literary mainstream.” -Ray Bradbury The class, flair and style of Matheson shine through every page, and it’s unquestionably the best of anything that he’s done to date.” -Rod Serling “ Hell House is one of the absolute best contemporary horror novels, and has been one of my own favorites since I first read it.” -Peter Straub It looms over the rest the way the mountains loom over the foothills.” -Stephen King “ Hell House is the scariest haunted house novel ever written. In addition to his novels Matheson wrote screenplays for movies and TV, including several Twilight Zone episodes.
In 2010, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He has also won the Edgar, the Spur, and the Writer’s Guild awards. He was named a Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention, and received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.
And for one terrible night, the group will investigate the property and learn exactly why the townsfolk refer to it as the Hell House.Īrt and design credit: Justin Erickson, Matheson (1926-2013) was The New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Now You See It…, and What Dreams May Come, among many others. A wealthy publisher, brooding over his impending death, has paid a physicist and two mediums to establish proof of life after death once and for all. All previous attempts to probe its mysteries have ended in murder, suicide, or insanity.īut now, a new investigation has been launched, bringing four strangers to the Maine mansion in search of the ultimate secrets of life and death. Its shadowed walls have witnessed scenes of unimaginable horror and depravity. įor more than 20 years, Belasco House has stood empty. From Richard Matheson, author of I am Legend, comes his most frightening and shocking book, Hell House – an indisputable horror classic.
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