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Hell House
Hell House by Richard Matheson Published: 1971 Narrated by: Ray Porter Length: 09:11 (301 pages) I loved I Am Legend (side note: it’s crazy that I can now link to books I read almost nine years ago). The direction it took surprised me, and it has one of my favourite endings of any novel. The way it wraps everything up and manages to completely flip the reader’s understanding of the plot on its head is really a thing of beauty. This novel didn’t live up to that. The setup for Hell House is quite good, I thought. A group of paranormal investigators have travelled to Hell House to try to…
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I Am Legend
I Am Legend (audio) by Richard Matheson Published: 1954 Firstly, I didn’t think the movie as was quite as bad as everyone made it out to be, but I can see where they’re coming from if they had read the book first. While it feels similar in atmosphere, it does differ in ways that reek somewhat of Hollywood tampering, and it ends up completely disregarding a fairly key point to the story. Robert Neville is a lone and immune survivor of a disease that turns people to vampires. His life is a tedious cycle of keeping the vampires at bay during the night and hunting them during the day. At…
