
by Shirley Jackson
Get into the Halloween spirit early!  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.
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