First edition. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket, original price intact, very

First edition. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket, original price intact, very short closed tear top outer corner front panel. Hardcover in black paper covered boards over navy blue cloth, spine lettered in silver and violet, top edge violet. 279 pp. Matheson's classic horror/supernatural/ mystery novel about the Belasco House in Maine, a premises regarded as the most haunted house in the world. A dying millionaire hires a physicist with an interest in parapsychology, his wife, and two mediums to investigate the possibility of life after death. They must spend a week in the house, which exerts its evil influence on them.