Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties The books that have profoundly scared me.are few.But Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House beat them all.It scared me as a teenager and it haunts me still.-Neil Gaiman, author of Norse Mythology About the Author Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) received wide critical acclaim for her short story "The Lottery," which was first published in the New Yorker in 1948. Review Quotes the only two great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years." -Stephen King The scariest book I've ever read. 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. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. But Hill House is gathering its powers-and soon it will choose one of them to make its own. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. 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.
It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Book Synopsis 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. About the Book "Originally published: New York: Viking Press, 1959 Edition with an introduction by Laura Miller published 2006"-Title page verso.
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