The greatest haunted house story ever written—the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series!
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.
I liked most of this - the setting of Hill House was exquisite! So haunting and creepy, with elements of eerie beauty, Jackson knows how to weave a tale, for sure.
I also really liked the plot and what the characters faced, I just didn't like the characters.
They were obnoxious and annoying and I wished for their demise more than once. I spent most of this rooting for the House, and I'm not sure I was supposed to.
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