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The Haunting of Hill House - (Penguin Classics) by Shirley Jackson (Paperback)

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  • The greatest haunted house story ever written--the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series!
  • About the Author: Shirley Jackson (1919-1965), a celebrated writer of horror, wrote many stories as well as six novels and two works of nonfiction.
  • 208 Pages
  • Fiction, Ghost
  • Series Name: Penguin Classics

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About the Book



Originally published: New York: Viking Press, 1959.



Book Synopsis



The greatest haunted house story ever written--the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series!

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

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"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers--and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 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.



Review Quotes




"[One of] the only two great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years." --Stephen King

"The scariest book I've ever read." --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 (1919-1965), a celebrated writer of horror, wrote many stories as well as six novels and two works of nonfiction.

Laura Miller, previously an editor at Salon.com, writes essays and reviews for the New York Times, the New Yorker, and other publications.

Dimensions (Overall): 7.7 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: .35 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 208
Genre: Fiction
Sub-Genre: Ghost
Series Title: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Author: Shirley Jackson
Language: English
Street Date: December 1, 2006
TCIN: 11481772
UPC: 9780143039983
Item Number (DPCI): 248-04-6519
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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