I’ve really liked most of what I’ve read by Richard Matheson (Hell House, I Am Legend, Stir of Echoes, etc) but two of his books have fallen pretty flat for me, and they’re both romances: What Dreams May Come, and now, Somewhere in Time. I wouldn’t call either book bad; they’re just not as good as I’d hoped, based of his others. “I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed.” 36 year old […]
Hell House by Richard Matheson
Creepy, creepy shit. Richard Matheson absolutely deserves his reputation as a king of horror. Hell House made my skin crawl, and I could not put it down. I seriously think I read this whole thing in maybe three or four sittings. A rich old dude named Rolf Rudolph Deutsch (great rich old dude name) bankrolls an expedition into a haunted house previously owned by an evil guy named Belasco. Old rich dude wants proof that life exists after death, so he sends in a medium (Florence), […]