The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
 

The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)

by Shirley Jackson

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre

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... (read more)

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sthurner
  • Rated 5 stars

"No live organism can continue for long under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydid are supposed, by some, to dream. "

This is not a kid's ghost story, if indeed it is a ghost story at all. Are the strange and awful things that happen at Hill House results of the minds of those who live there? Or does the house really have a malevolent presence? I've read this book several times, and enjoy it more each time.

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Lindsey  A
  • Rated 2 stars

Sometimes I enjoy a scary book, but this just didn't cut it. I somehow managed to finish it, but I do not recommend it.

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  • Rated 3.878151 stars
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  • Rated 4 stars
 

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  • Kathy S

    kathy s said:

    “Here's the preeminent haunted house classic presenting Shirley Jackson at her finest. A generation raised on shock theater might think that a quick fright or sudden jolt is the herald of good horror, but Jackson knew better. It's the slowly dawning sense of realization that presages the creepiest kind of horror, what one critic described as Jackson's gift for "quiet, cumulative shudders."

    posted Thursday, April 24 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
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