Dr. Montague is an occult scholar who believes that he has found in Hill House the perfect place to document and study paranormal activity. He plans to stay there for several months with a few other people, keeping detailed notes about his findings and experiences. He is asked to have Luke, the heir...
I thought this novel was different. It left me wanting for more. I wanted their time inside the mansion to be longer, I wanted more information and details and I wanted to know what happened to the characters as they left. I liked how the story developed and the characters, there wasn’t much deviati...
I did not enjoy this book as much as I hoped I would. In fact I barely enjoyed it at all. I hated the writing style and found it hard to follow. Frequently I found myself thinking "What the heck does that mean?....huh? what are they talking about?" The characters were unlikeable and the dialogue wa...
"The house was vile. . . Hill House is vile, it is diseased, get away from here at once."I’m stingy with my stars and gave out five of them to Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle. It had it all; quirky characters, creepy goings-on and dreadful deeds and I was expecting similarly great thing...
By the way, I went looking into the publishing date, and in typical wiki walk style, ended up learning about the difference between horror and terror. I need a new shelf, because this one goes into the second without question. Points I can praise without spoiling (much): The way everyone chats a...
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House is definitely an excellent work of literature I would recommend to anyone interested in something timeless. As other's have stated before, ghost houses and hauntings and horror seem to be something anyone can relate with, no...
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"; Theo...
“When are they going to talk about me?” Way over-rated. Eleanor Vance has low self-esteem, a dead mother, fixates on anybody that crosses her path and is a God-mode fantasist. She might as well have a sign above her that says “sees dead people”. While a couple of days with Dr Anthony Clare wouldn’t ...
Some houses are born bad.A Classic. A masterpiece back in the day and it has held up extremely well. I enjoyed the slow burn and elegant prose which really accentuated the brooding atmosphere. I dug it.
Everytime I pickup a book by Shirley Jackson, I think, "There's no way it'll be as good as the last one." Once again I have been proven wrong. The writing in The Haunting of Hill House is beautiful and the story haunting. Instead of hitting you over the head with the spooky, it slowly creeps into th...
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