![]() ![]() In 1971, prolific horror author and screenwriter Richard Matheson successfully created his own take on Shirley Jackson’s tale, adapted his own novel to the big screen and introduced us to The Legend Of Hell House (1973). The novel has been filmed twice, both times under the title The Haunting (19), and was also inspiration for William Castle’s House On Haunted Hill (19). ![]() Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”Ī vivid and powerful opening paragraph to Shirley Jackson’s 1959 updating of the classic ghost story, The Haunting Of Hill House, regarded by many, including Stephen King, as one of the most important horror novels of the Twentieth Century. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove/disprove survival after death. ![]()
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