The
Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson | Penguin Classics | Pub: 10/16/59
This was my first classic I have read in a
bit and my first Shirley Jackson book. I picked it up because I had just
watched the show on Netflix, and I had
fallen in love with the show.
The book is closer to the movie The Haunting
than the Netflix show and I have to say, I was fairly disappointed. I was
expecting scary and chilling because that is all I have heard about Shirley Jackson,
but I never felt scare at all during it… it was rather lackluster in my opinion.
I did buy a second Shirley Jackson book,
so I am hoping that one is actually scary.
Synopsis (Credit: Goodreads)
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, the 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.
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