NMLP P-037868 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Hell House

Richard Matheson · The Viking Press, New York · 1971

The US Viking Press hardcover of 1971 is the true first and the only collected hardcover first. No contemporary British hardcover is recorded in the sources consulted — the British edition was a Corgi paperback (London, 1973, 248 pp. plus advertisements), issued around the time of the film The Legend of Hell House — so the census claim that the Viking hardcover is the sole collected state is confirmed.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-037868 for "Hell House" by Richard Matheson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037868, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).