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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.
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.
- Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco in 1916. She first received wide critical acclaim for her short story “The Lottery,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1948. She is the author of six novels, including The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and The Sundial; two bestselling family chronicles, Life ...
‘The Haunting of Hill House,’ written by Shirley Jackson in 1959, is a classic horror novel that’s well deserving of its status as one of the best gothic horror books in American literature. It tells the story of three people who Dr. Montague invites to investigate the strange goings-on at Hill House, an old and allegedly haunted estate.
Oct 1, 2013 · The hours roll by in Hill House and it soon becomes apparent that it may not be the house that's haunted. The Haunting of Hill House book is way better than the Netflix adaptation. In fact, I almost passed up on the book because the adaptation was so bad. Very glad I didn't. It's a short, quick, tense read with an ending that makes you go, "oh ...
The man who built it, Hugh Crain, purposefully designed the house to be labyrinthine and disorienting, and after his wife’s death in the house’s driveway, a series of strange occurrences took hold of the place. As the four begin their stay at Hill House, they explore and chart the manor’s twisting depths. A series of strange disturbances ...
Publisher's summary. Now a hit Netflix miniseries directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton. Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits. Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic ...
