The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels, and the inspiration for writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King, *The Haunting of Hill House* is an immaculate examination of how fear can make us our own worst enemy, published in Penguin Modern Classics. Four seekers have arrived at the rambling ol
The Haunting of Hill House
โ Scribed by Shirley Jackson; Shirley Jackson; Guillermo del Toro
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Penguin Classic
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 192 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
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 lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers--and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
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