First published in 1959, ShirleyJackson'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 chilling encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
First published in 1959, ShirleyJackson'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 chilling encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
