Shannon
Hillsborough
A review of this — 10 weeks ago
WORTH CONSUMING!
Hell House is one of the classics of haunted house horror, and it is indeed often a scary, chilling book. But it suffers from what a lot of horror does: A tendency to go over the top rather than stay subtle, an extra-thick layer of evil and depravity that I think does more to break the reader’s tenuous suspension of disbelief rather than height the tension and fear. Still, as horror tales go, this was a well-written and engrossing one, not quite as good as Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, but certainly better than a lot of the shlock being written today.
