Four people spend a summer in a deeply unnerving house -- a masterwork of psychological dread and ambiguity.
About This Book
The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson'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.
Who This Is For
Best for readers who want to be immersed in a world: mood and setting as important as plot. The writing rewards attention without being demanding, a good balance of depth and readability. It takes its time, and that's the point. Patience is rewarded. Plot-first readers may find the pace too slow and the ambiguity too deliberate.
Best Read When
Best read when you're in the mood for something atmospheric and mysterious, and a read that's slow and deeply immersive.
What It Explores
The Haunting of Hill House explores identity and the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be, loss and what remains after it, and survival and what extreme circumstances ask of people.
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