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Re: [DL] Need some suggestions fast...




>>Other than
> >that watch a movie like 'The Haunting of Hill House'
> >(I think that's the right name)- it's a black&white
> >horror story, and very scary even though it is like
> 40>or 50 years old.
>
>
> ... or is that "The House on Haunted Hill", with
> Vincent Price as the
> millionaire who offers to pay several
> persons (selected for various reasons) to spend the
> night in a haunted
> house, with $10,000 paid to each who
> stays the full night (and survives; if not the money
> goes to the next of
> kin)....?
>
> -------> Nah. I'm pretty sure that's a different
> movie. By the way, I have to apologise for being so
> late in my replies, but I only get into work the
> second half of the week (and every other wednesday),
> so I only get to catch up on mail during that time...
>
>           - Marshal Thorn
The "The Haunting of Hill House" movie was based on the book by Shirley
Jackson, and was recently remade ("The Haunting").
Another excellent book on the subject is "Hell House" by Richard Matheson.
(The author who wrote "What Dreams May Come", and "Stir of Echoes".)

E. Zimmerman