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.
The first 16% or so of the kindle copy I read, is some lady (not the author) blathering on about how smart she is. And lots of spoilers as to what happens in the book itself. So if you aren't familiar with the story at all, skip all of that.
This is one of the extremely rare books where I actually like the movie version better (the version with Catherine Zeta-Jones). This wasn't bad, but it was just kind of meh. It wasn't scary, and the ending just left me going, "Really? All this build up for that?"
If you like the kind of scary stories that you don't want to read alone at night, this is NOT that book. Had I not seen the movie version it would have been DNF'd, but I kept hoping it would get better.
