Haunting Hill House

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Shirley Jackson: Haunting Hill House (Warner Books)

English language

Published by Warner Books.

ISBN:
978-0-446-31036-9
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OCLC Number:
9408947

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4 stars (3 reviews)

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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)

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