Hell House (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Matheson
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—extrasensory powers
- Time of Work: 1970
- Setting: Maine
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Extrasensory perception or powers, Ghosts or apparitions, New England, Houses, mansions, or manors, Maine, Electromagnetism or electromagnets
- Locales: Maine
The Plot
The isolated Belasco House in Maine, otherwise known as Hell House, provides the gothic setting and atmosphere of this novel. Four persons visit the haunted house after it has been closed for thirty years. One visitor, Dr. Lionel Barrett, a physicist, brings his wife Edith, whose main reason for being there is that she fears being alone even for a few days. Dr. Barrett undertakes the visit because a wealthy, aging publisher, Rudolph Deutsch, offered him $100,000 to find proof one way or another about survival after death.
Barrett not only needs the money for his...
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