![]() ![]() ![]() Barrett intends to prove that the house is a maelstrom of energy which is only responding to the presence of the two mediums. The windows have been bricked over, the power is sporadic, and it’s populated by a cruel force which smashes furniture and possesses people. The house sports an impressive list of paranormal activities and an intense body count. ![]() Barrett, along with his wife, Edith, and two mediums (one active, Florence one repressed, Fischer) hopes to crack into and destroy the vicious power which animates Hell House. Like Hill House, Hell House features a scientific exploration into supernatural events. It’s over the top in a way that verges on camp, but for something to be campy, it ought to be a little funny and this isn’t. It’s suitably eerie, suspenseful, and intense, but it has a weird 1970’s pulp-porn component with an uncomfortable level of sexual violence and humiliation. What Dreams May Come is also decent (don’t quote me I read it too long ago to fully recommend now). ![]() I dropped the others on my list in its favor because Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend is, well, legendary. Richard Matheson’s Hell House popped up in my Amazon recommendations after I browsed horror classics for my October reading. ![]()
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