![]() 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. The book is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Listed in a The New York Times poll in 2018 as “the scariest book of fiction” by participants, the novel is a must read for all the fans of horror and mystery genres. Jackson’s novel relies on terror rather than horror to elicit emotion in the reader, using complex relationships between the mysterious events in the house and the characters’ psyches. ![]() Stephen King, in his book Danse Macabre (1981), a non-fiction review of the horror genre, lists The Haunting of Hill House as one of the finest horror novels of the late 20th century and provides a lengthy review.Ī finalist for the National Book Award, the book has been made into two feature films, a play and is the basis of a popular Netflix series. The 1959 gothic horror novel “ The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson, is perhaps the greatest haunted-house story ever written. ![]()
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