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By (author) Jackson, Shirley
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Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past.
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The best-known of Shirley Jackson”s novels and a major inspiration for writers like Stephen King as well as the hit Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear
”Shirley Jackson”s stories are among the most terrifying ever written”Donna Tartt
Alone in the world, Eleanor is delighted to take up Dr Montague”sinvitation to spend a summer in the mysterious Hill House. Joining themare Theodora, an artistic ”sensitive”, and Luke, heir to the house. Butwhat begins as a light-hearted experiment is swiftly proven to be a tripinto their darkest nightmares, and an investigation that one of theirnumber may not survive. Twice filmed as The Haunting, and the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a powerful work of slow-burning psychological horror.
”An amazing writer … If you haven”t read her you have missed out on something marvellous”Neil Gaiman
”As nearly perfect a haunted-house tale as I have ever read”Stephen King
”The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable”A. M. Homes
”Shirley Jackson is one of those highly idiosyncratic, inimitablewriters…whose work exerts an enduring spell”Joyce Carol Oates
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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
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Stepping into Hill House is like stepping into the mind of a madman; it isn”t long before you weird yourself out
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The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable … She is a true master
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One of the twentieth century”s most luminous and strange American writers
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Her books penetrate keenly to the terrible truths which sometimes hide behind comfortable fictions, to the treachery beneath cheery neighborhood faces and the plain manners of country folk
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She is the finest master…of the cryptic, haunted tale
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A novel which at one stroke puts her unquestionably among the great masters of the genre . . . as spine-chilling . . . as anything Edgar Allan Poe dreamed up.
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
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