Hell House

by Richard Matheson

cardinal

precepts

inure

erroneous

throb,

timorous

gurgling

rattle,

canopy

He could feel the house around him like some vast, invisible being.

corduroy

excelsior,

gamboling

Bog,”

pried

stenciled,

Bilocation;

Catalepsy;

tampered

ivory

abstruse

jolted

dismay

tile

murky

ripples

She swallowed as though to rid her throat of sour

bile.

let the door swing shut, the thumping closure of it echoing loudly.

brocaded

adorned

obstructing

travertine,

“These are facts in evidence of a phenomenon, Miss Tanner, not proof of ghosts.”

subliminal self, that vast, concealed expanse of the human personality which, iceberglike, inheres beneath the so-called threshold of consciousness.

infrared

amiss

caustic

‘His teeth are those of a carnivore. When he bares them in a smile, it gives one the impression of an animal snarling. His face is white, for he despises the sun, eschews the out-of-doors. He has astonishingly green eyes, which seem to possess an inner light of their own. His forehead is broad, his hair and short-trimmed beard jet black. Despite his handsomeness, his is a frightening visage, the face of some demon who has taken on a human aspect’ “

thine

twinge

cabalist

Rosicrucian

delectation

lest

debasement.

‘lubricous.’

gluttony,

Debauchery

bacchanalia