The Haunting of Hill House
Books | Fiction / Gothic
3.9
(5.6K)
Shirley Jackson
Part of Penguin’s six-volume series featuring the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro. Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro’s favorites, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ray Russell’s short story “Sardonicus,” considered by Stephen King to be “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written,” to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ted Klein, and Robert E. Howard. Featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, these stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere.The Haunting of Hill HouseThe 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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Author
Shirley Jackson
Pages
288
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2013-10-01
ISBN
1101663006 9781101663004
Ratings
Google: 5
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"I wanted to read this full Shirley Jackson story after reading a tiny excerpt in a writing class. Hill House is an evil house. The author wonderfully renders an inanimate house a living menace. I was especially impressed by the fear and suspense created by the house without the characters actually seeing ghosts or other horrors. It's all imagination, intimation and allusion."
"During the time I was finishing this book I was reading a couple of reviews of it and I came accross one that really summed up how I thought about it. The review compared this book to a sugar cookie by saying that they could understand why it was so importamt, that all the prose and deep meanings were there and that they knew why it was so genre defining, and yet, that it was still a sugar cookie. Not a bad cookie, but not a cookie you would choose first, it was a cookie you might pick up if you see it, or might not, depending on the circumstances. I really liked that comparison. Becuase I never latched onto this book, I was kinda just along for the ride, but flying above the ride. It took me a long time to get through it, and it's not that long of a book. I never really connected with the characters, but Eleanor is a very well written character I admit that. I can see why people get excited about this book even if I don't. It deserves to be a classic, even if I wasn't enthralled. Everything is there, I'm still confused why it didn't all connect for me."
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