The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
5/5
Penguin Classics 246 pages October 16, 1959
Four seekers arrive at Hill House to investigate its reputation as a place of supernatural activity. Among them is Eleanor Vance, fragile and searching for belonging, who finds herself increasingly drawn into the house's embrace. Widely considered the greatest haunted house novel ever written.
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"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality" — and no bookworm can read that opening paragraph without getting full-body chills. Jackson's genius is in what she doesn't show you. Hill House is alive, and Eleanor's unraveling is one of the most elegant descents into madness in horror fiction. This slim novel has more dread per page than books three times its size. A perfect horror novel.
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