Hell House : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Hell House / Tim Evanson
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| 説明 | Hell House is a 1971 fiction horror novel by Richard Matheson.This map, created by me, shows the layout of the first floor as described in the novel. Black areas are either solid, or not described. There is a second floor which is only very vaguely described, and not included here.The novel is about a paranormal investigation into the Emeric Belcasco Mansion.Emeric Belasco, hypnotically charismatic but psychotic bastard son of an American munitions manufacturer, built the mansion in 1919. His parties were so lavish, so expensive, so fantastic that people came from all over the nation to participate in them. About a year later, Belasco began turning the parties into "Sinposia", where libertinism, drug-taking, and orgies occurred.Over the next five years, Belasco encouraged guests to stay for weeks, even months. Debauchery, brutality, and carnage became the norm. Belasco did not participate in this descent into madness, but allegedly watched from hiding places or walked silently among the revelers.By 1926, Belasco's guests (they numbered 100 or more) began to stay permanently at the mansion. A life-size crucifix sporting an enormous erection was placed in the chapel. Every cruelty, perversion, and horror imaginable was engaged in. As the servants became corrupted as well, food and drink began to appear only irregularly at the house. Guests wore filthy rags, if they wore anything at all. A flu pandemic hit the house in 1927, killing a number of guests. Belasco had all the windows bricked up. The furnace failed in the winter of 1928, and 13 guests died of pneumonia.Belasco's outside staff would bring young people to the house, who would in turn be raped, tortured, experimented upon, and murdered. In June 1929, Belasco staged a "Roman circus" in the home's theater, where a virgin woman was eaten alive by a starving leopard. In July 1929, drug-addicted physicians began experimenting on the people in the house, creating monsters. The guests began preying on one another, engaging in cannibalism.When concerned relatives of the guests finally had enough, they formed a group that broke into the house in November 1929. Of the remaining 27 guests, all were dead. There was no sign of the 40-year-old Belasco.The Belasco Mansion became known as "Hell House", because hell on earth occurred inside its walls.The house was purchased by unknown owners. They immediately began experiencing a wide range of paranomal phenomena, and fled.A paranormal investigation in 1931, two years after Belasco's disappearance, left all three mediums dead. They spent just three days in the house. Who they were and how they died is never revealed in the novel.A second investigation in 1940 left a medium and three scientists dead. 15-year-old psychic Ben Fischer survived, but was catatonic. This investigation, too, only lasted three days.In the novel, dying publishing magnate Rolf Deutsch wants proof of the afterlife. He purchases Hell House and recruits paranormal investigator Dr. Barrett, Ben Fischer, and actress-turned-Spiritualist pastor Florence Tanner to investigate the house. If they spend a week there, he will pay each of them $100,000 (about $666,500 in 2021 dollars).It was adapted into a 1973 horror film, The Legend of Hell House, starring Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, and Clive Revill. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-07-17 22:36:25 |
| 撮影者 | Tim Evanson , Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA |
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