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The Haunting of Hill House - Paperback
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The Haunting of Hill House
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Is this book for you?
- Feels
- Eerie, Atmospheric, Tense
- Kind of story
- Haunted house, Gothic, Psychological horror, Classic
- About
- Isolation, Madness, Family, Obsession
- Pace
- Slow burn
- How dark
- 2 of 5. A little dark
- Romance
- None to speak of
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by Shirley Jackson. Introduction by Laura Miller
The greatest haunted house story ever written, and the inspiration for the Netflix series. One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years.
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers, and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Laura Miller.
Author Biography
Shirley Jackson (1919-1965), a celebrated writer of horror, wrote many stories as well as six novels and two works of nonfiction, including We Have Always Lived in the Castle and "The Lottery."
Laura Miller, previously an editor at Salon.com, writes essays and reviews for the New York Times, the New Yorker, and other publications.
Details
- Author: Shirley Jackson
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 208
- Published: December 1, 2006
- Size: 5.0 x 7.7 x 0.6 in
- ISBN: 9780143039983
Praise
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[One of] the only two great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years.
Stephen King
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The scariest book I've ever read.
Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties
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The books that have profoundly scared me... are few... But Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House beat them all... It scared me as a teenager and it haunts me still.
Neil Gaiman, author of Norse Mythology
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