Hell House by Richard Matheson - Numbered Edition

His most frightening and shocking book, Hell House is Richard Matheson’s brutal and twisted take on the haunted house genre that became a classic in its own right.   

For over twenty years, Belasco House has stood empty. Regarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, its shadowed walls have witnessed scenes of unimaginable horror and depravity. All previous attempts to probe its mysteries have ended in murder, suicide or insanity. But now, a new investigation has been launched, bringing four strangers to Belasco House in search of the ultimate secrets of life and death. A wealthy publisher, brooding over his impending death, has paid a physicist and two mediums to establish the facts of life after death once and for all. For one night, they will investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townsfolk refer to it as the Hell House.

Few novels have impacted modern day authors of the horror genre more than Hell House did upon its publication in 1971. The novel quickly became the gold standard to which a new uprising of horror authors aspired in the 1970s and 1980s. Not your mother’s haunted house tale, Hell House signaled a new generation of horror in which sex, violence and depravity were no longer off limits. Stephen King called it, “the scariest haunted house novel ever written,” while Peter Straub hailed it as “one of the absolute best contemporary horror novels,” and Rod Serling named it “unquestionably the best” of Matheson’s work.

The author adapted his novel into a screenplay for the 1973 film, The Legend of Hell House, starring Roddy McDowall and Pamela Franklin. 

With Matheson’s exploration of the darkest corners of the human psyche and his ability to evoke a sense of impending doom, Hell House is still standing tall as one of the most terrifying and influential horror classics of its kind.

The fine press limited edition of Hell House by Richard Matheson is presented in three states: Lettered, Numbered and Artist editions.

NUMBERED EDITION

• 6” x 9” trim size.
• 328 pages.
• Limited to 250 copies.
• Signed by R.C. Matheson, Mike Flanagan and Nancy A. Collins.
• Quarter leather binding with Dubletta cloth over boards.
  
• Spine is genuine ostrich leg leather.
• New exclusive introduction by R.C. Matheson.
• New exclusive foreword by Mike Flanagan.
• New exclusive afterword by Nancy A. Collins.
• Six full color tipped illustrations by William Basso.
• Endsheets are Hahnemühle Bugra. 
• Handmade leather headbands.
• Printed letterpress on Mohawk Superfine paper.
  
• Text pages set in Fanwood and Margo.
  
• Housed in a clamshell enclosure covered in European bookcloth with velour lined floors and a foil blocked leather spine label. 
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Published editions may differ slightly from mockups and prototype designs.
Illustrations © 2022 by William Basso.
Numbered edition photography by Yegor Malinovskii.