![]() ![]() Jackson’s style of writing is clearly the primary appeal for this novel. It’s hard to separate out the four appeal elements for this book, because they’re all so interwoven and dependent on one another. But Hill House is gathering its powers-and soon it will choose one of them to make its own. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting” Theodora, the lighthearted assistant Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. ![]() It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Publisher: Penguin Classics, among othersįirst published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. ![]()
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