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      • Of course, the answer is simple: The television version of The Haunting of Hill House is not necessarily an adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel. In fact, it's an entirely different story centered around a family whose lives have been affected by their traumatic experiences in the haunted house.
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  1. The Haunting of Hill House was published in 1959 and House on Haunted Hill was an original screenplay released in February 1959. The Haunting was then released in 1963. It doesn’t help that the remakes of both House on Haunted Hill and The Haunting were released in 1999.

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  3. The Haunting of Hill House is a 1959 gothic horror novel by American author Shirley Jackson. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and has been made into two feature films (The Haunting, directed by Robert Wise, and its remake), a play, and is the basis of a Netflix series.

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    • 1959
  4. Oct 25, 2018 · Of course, the answer is simple: The television version of The Haunting of Hill House is not necessarily an adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel. In fact, it's an...

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  5. Oct 3, 2023 · This contemporary queer horror novel is the first authorized return to Shirley Jackson’s iconic queer horror The Haunting of Hill House from 1959. Same setting, totally new characters doing something different in the house (rehearsing a play about a witch).

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    • The Haunting of Hill House was inspired by real-life paranormal investigators. Jackson was inspired to write the novel after reading about a group of 19th century “psychic researchers” who rented a house they believed to be haunted in order to study paranormal phenomena.
    • Shirley Jackson consulted a book by a paranormal researcher. In 1958, Jackson was working on Hill House when she read a newspaper article about a Long Island family experiencing poltergeist activity, which mentioned the book Haunted People, co-written by parapsychologist Nandor Fodor.
    • Jackson had a terrifying sleepwalking experience while writing The Haunting of Hill House. Early on in the writing process, Jackson awoke one morning to find something terrifying atop her writing desk: A note, with the words “DEAD DEAD” scrawled upon it, written in her own handwriting.
    • Jackson made an unsettling discovery while researching haunted houses. Before she began writing The Haunting of Hill House, Jackson searched magazines and newspapers for photos of houses that seemed haunted.
  6. Oct 16, 2023 · (Mea culpa.) “The Haunting of Hill House” has been haunted before; five years ago, Netflix aired a very free adaptation of the novel in ten episodes, and previous decades saw two...

  7. Jan 24, 2022 · What is The Haunting of Hill House about? The Haunting of Hill House centers around four main characters who seek to investigate the paranormal activities of Hill House. Luke Sanderson is the heir to Hill House.

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