"I read Hill House after falling in love with Mike Flanagan’s Netflix adaptation, and was so pleasantly surprised by the source material. I was instantly reeled in by the dreamy musings of Eleanor - one of Jackson’s signature whimsically disturbed women. This book possesses a unique power of keeping me scared as the characters’ banter has me smiling ear-to-ear. If you’re looking to better understand the appeal of horror or just want to deepen your appreciation of the Flanaverse, spend a night or two at Hill House.
'Another day, she told them, another day I’ll come back and break your spell.'"
Publisher Penguin Classics
Publication Date 2006-11-28
Section Science Fiction / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions / Charlie H.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780143129370
The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre
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. 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 spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
