His people never told him though, that Barrett is a cripple and Deutsch mentions this fact with a stunning lack of tact. Deutsch’s ‘people’ have recommended Barrett for the job because he is believed to be one of the best in his field. Deutsch is a dying man and the parapsychologist has never met him before and so has no idea why the millionaire has requested to see him although he guesses that it will have something to do with parapsychology.īarrett’s guess is correct the dying man is looking for proof of survival after death. Barrett is a parapsychologist and he has been waiting for over an hour to see an eighty-seven-year-old millionaire named Rolph Rudolph Deutsch. At 3:17, on the 18 December 1970, though, the viewpoint character is Dr Lionel Barrett. I should probably mention here, however, that the story is not written in a journal style but in the third person and so the viewpoint character changes from time to time. The story is set in the December of 1970 and begins on the eighteenth, at 3:17 in the afternoon. The book is about 300 pages long and is not divided up into traditional chapters but is, instead, separated by dates and times, with the date being the equivalent of a chapter and the time forming a kind of sub-chapter. It is also the book that inspired the film The Legend of Hell House, starring Roddy McDowall, Gayle Hunnicutt and Peter Bowles. In fact it is one of the best that I have ever read. I have always enjoyed a good haunted house story and Hell House is exactly that-a good haunted house story.
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