The Haunting of Hill House

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.