The Centipde Press edition of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House isan oversize (7¾ × 12¾ inches) edition with the following features: 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. The Haunting of Hill House is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly place called Hill House: Dr. Kiernan, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman (who called it the scariest novel he’d ever read) and Peter Straub, and it is now generally regarded as the greatest novel in the history of the horror genre. Its influence has been huge on Caitlín R. Over the years the novel’s legacy has grown. Viking Press published The Haunting of Hill House in 1959 and it was immediately hailed as one of the best novels of the year, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
This time, she had an entire novel at her disposal for her brand of literary ferociousness. Since the early 1940s anyone who was paying attention could hardly be unaware that Shirley Jackson was a gifted writer, but that she had the sort of transgressive power evinced in “The Lottery” may have been a dark surprise that caught many readers totally unprepared.Įleven years later, Jackson would commit the sort of literary act of assault and battery that she was so, so good at. Hostile mail? To the letters column of The New Yorker? The Jissue of The New Yorker was noteworthy for the volume of hostile mail that it generated.
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