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. For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townsfolk refer to it as the Hell House.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.From Richard Matheson, author of I am Legend, comes his most frightening and shocking book, Hell House – an indisputable horror classic. 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. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newspaper 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.ĭr. It looms over the rest the way the mountains loom over the foothills." - Stephen Kingįrom the author of I Am Legend comes Richard Matheson's Hell House, the basis for the supernatural horror film starring Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill. "Hell House is the scariest haunted house novel ever written.
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