The haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

283 pages

English language

Published 2011 by Chivers.

ISBN:: 978-1-4458-3634-8
OCLC Number:: 751717732

(3 reviews)

Alone in the world, Eleanor is delighted to take up Dr Montague's invitation to spend a summer in the mysterious hill House. Joining them are Theodora, and artistic sensitive, and Luke, heir to the house. But what begins as a light-hearted experiment is swiftly proven to be a trip into their darkest nightmares, and an investigation that one of their number may not survive.

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ralentina reviewed The haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Archetypical

3 stars

Quite possibly, I'm being unfair to this book just because I liked We Have Always Lived in the Castle so much, that anything was bound to fall short after that. The Haunting of Hill House is a well-executed horror story (yeah, I know, milestone in the genre, bla bla), thoroughly classic, and perhaps that's why I didn't find as memorable

The premise is that four strangers spend a week in a haunted house, determined to find out what is going on. The start is quite slow-paced, and when, finally, mysterious, creepy things begin to happen, they go hand in hand with the unraveling of human relations, and/or the lucidity of the protagonist (is for the reader to figure out which one of the two)

t o d d w a r n e r reviewed The Haunting of Hill House: Now the Inspiration for a New Netflix Original Series by Shirley Jackson

characters characters characters!

4 stars

What makes this book stand out are the characters. Each were so different and written so well. This is particularly difficult for writers and Jackson really nailed it

topofila

rated it

Jan 5

Subjects

Haunted houses
Fiction
Horror
Classics