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By (author) Jackson, Shirley
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A beautifully designed clothbound edition of Shirley Jackson’s chilling tale of power and fear
Hunting for evidence of the occult, Dr Montague invites three participants to Hill House: Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, set to inherit the estate; and Eleanor a fragile young woman with a troubled past. As The House takes hold, Jackson plumbs the depths of the human condition, asking the electric question: will any of them make it out? This definitive horror novel blurs the lines between reality and imagination, between dream and nightmare. Beautiful, atmospheric and utterly terrifying, Jackson’s magnum opus examines the shadows that lurk not just in cobwebbed corners, but in the facets of our very minds.
”The Haunting of Hill House rewrote horror’s rules” Guardian
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The scariest book I’ve ever read … I read it one night next to my sleeping wife and
found myself unable to move, unable to go to bed, unable to do anything except keep reading and praying the shadows around me didn’t move
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the haunted house novel. All others stand in its shadow
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Shirley Jackson’s
“The Haunting of Hill House” beats them all:
a maleficent house, real human protagonists, everything half-seen or happening in the dark.
It scared me as a teenager and it haunts me still, as does Eleanor, the girl who comes to stay
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The Haunting of Hill House rewrote horror’s rules
Biographical note:
Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story, ”The Lottery”, was first published in the New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by Hangsaman, The Bird”s Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.
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