The Haunting Of Hill House

Penguin Modern Classics

By: Shirley Jackson

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Paperback | 9 November 2009 | Edition Number 1

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The best-known of Shirley Jackson''s novels and a major inspiration for writers like Stephen King as well as the hit Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear

''Shirley Jackson''s stories are among the most terrifying ever written'' Donna Tartt

Alone in the world, Eleanor is delighted to take up Dr Montague''s invitation to spend a summer in the mysterious Hill House. Joining them are Theodora, an artistic ''sensitive'', and Luke, heir to the house. But what begins as a light-hearted experiment is swiftly proven to be a trip into their darkest nightmares, and an investigation that one of their number may not survive. Twice filmed as The Haunting, and the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series, The Haunting of Hill House is a powerful work of slow-burning psychological horror.

''An amazing writer ... If you haven''t read her you have missed out on something marvellous'' Neil Gaiman

''As nearly perfect a haunted-house tale as I have ever read'' Stephen King

''The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable'' A. M. Homes

''Shirley Jackson is one of those highly idiosyncratic, inimitable writers...whose work exerts an enduring spell'' Joyce Carol Oates

Industry Reviews

Stepping into Hill House is like stepping into the mind of a madman; it isn't long before you weird yourself out * Stephen King *
An amazing writer ... If you haven't read We Have Always Lived in the Castle or The Haunting of Hill House or any of her short stories you have missed out on something marvellous -- Neil Gaiman
The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... She is a true master -- A. M. Homes
One of the twentieth century's most luminous and strange American writers -- Jonathan Lethem
Her books penetrate keenly to the terrible truths which sometimes hide behind comfortable fictions, to the treachery beneath cheery neighborhood faces and the plain manners of country folk -- Donna Tartt
She is the finest master...of the cryptic, haunted tale * The New York Times Book Review *
A novel which at one stroke puts her unquestionably among the great masters of the genre . . . as spine-chilling . . . as anything Edgar Allan Poe dreamed up. -- Peter Green * Daily Telegraph *

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