The Haunting of Hill House
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Publisher Description
Luke Sanderson, inheritor of the mysterious Hill House, invites a supernatural investigator and several guests interested in the paranormal to his eighty-year-old mansion in the hopes that they can experience and record supernatural events. As time passes, the group experiences increasingly terrifying and unexplainable disturbances, and one guest—Eleanor Vance—seems to be a particular target of the strange occurrences.
The Haunting of Hill House is one of the most famous ghost stories in literary history, and was a finalist for the National Book Award of 1959. Lauded by horror legends like Stephen King and named “the greatest haunted-house story ever written” by the Wall Street Journal, it has been adapted into films several times and served as a foundation for many modern ghost stories.
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APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Shirley Jackson’s 1962 masterpiece is one of the most intriguing mysteries in American Gothic fiction. Much more than a mere whodunit, the novel expands on her legendary short story “The Lottery,” skewering the charms of small-town living and the supposed intimacies of family life. The atmospherics are simply great; the crumbling Blackwood family mansion becomes a sinister character in its own right. Jackson’s efficient prose has a creeping ability to conjure horror on multiple fronts at once.
Customer Reviews
Amazing read
Nothing like the show at all, so if that’s what you are looking for definitely do not read but as someone who saw the show first and then read this book I must say I love the book so much more! The story is slower but the details and characters are way better then the show. I plan to read more books by this author and recommend this book to anyone who loves an easy read with a bit of a horror mystery feel :)
Wanted to read after I watched the Netflix series
I am glad to say the book was much better than the series.