Rolf Rudolph Deutsch was eighty-seven, bald, and skeletal, his dark eyes peering out from bony cavities. Stopping by the massive bed, he looked at the old man sitting in it. Sanctum of the monarch, Barrett thought as he moved across the rug. The secretary closed the door behind him. Then he stepped past Hanley, entering the room. He waited while the secretary leaned in through the doorway and announced, Doctor Barrett, sir. Doctor, he said.īarrett reached for his cane and, standing, limped across the hallway, stopping in front of the shorter man. The door to Deutsch’s bedroom opened, and his male secretary, Hanley, came out. Still, he’d had no way of knowing it would take this long. Edith must be getting restless downstairs. He sat erect on the straight-back chair, staring at the door to Deutsch’s bedroom. He was a tall, slightly overweight man in his middle fifties, his thinning blond hair unchanged in color, though his trimmed beard showed traces of white. Barrett lifted his right leg over his left. Return from the Grave The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die-always sensational, rarely factual. The old man’s chain of newspapers and magazines were forever printing articles on the subject. What did Deutsch want of him? Something to do with parapsychology, most likely. He drew his watch from its vest pocket and raised the lid. The interminable wait in this corridor while disconcerted-looking men and women hurried in and out of Deutsch’s bedroom, glancing at him occasionally. The driving rain, the cold, the two-hour ride from Manhattan in one of Deutsch’s long black leather-upholstered limousines. He felt rather like a character in some latter-day Gothic romance. It had been raining hard since five o’clock that morning. For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townsfolk refer to it as the Hell House.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been abandoned and sealed since 1949 after a decade of drug addiction, alcoholism, and debauchery. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newspaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death.ĭr. It looms over the rest the way the mountains loom over the foothills." - Stephen Kingįrom the author of I Am Legend comes Richard Matheson's Hell House, the basis for the supernatural horror film starring Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill. "Hell House is the scariest haunted house novel ever written.
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