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Finished Hell House by Richard Matheson for the Celebrate the Author Challenge (he was born in February). It's also part of my 30 by 30 personal challenge.
I don't like Richard Matheson very much. I Am Legend was entertaining enough and quite scary in parts, but Hell House was just weird. And based mostly on this and partly on I Am Legend, I'm going to guess that he had some sexual hangups. (Or maybe not.)
Hell House is about a group of people (scientist-type guy and his wife, medium and psychic who survived in the house the last time people went in) who are investigating the "Everest of haunted houses."
So what's the deal with this house? Apparently there were a lot of orgies there and eventually it deteroriated into other weirdness and people died, so then there was cannibalism and necrophilia.
This book wasn't scary at all--it was just gross.
And for what it's worth, I am totally not a repressed person, but talking about wanting to give God a blow job? Gross. Creepy and inappropriate and gross.
