Halloween read: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
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Join us for a Halloween discussion of this classic and for dinner/drinks at the Dolphins.
The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels, and the inspiration for writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear.
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past.
As they begin to cope with horrifying occurrences beyond their control or understanding, they cannot possibly know what lies ahead. For Hill House is gathering its powers - and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
Waterstones says: A touchstone of supernatural horror, Jackson's profoundly unsettling novel revolves around the titular eerie residence and the quartet of individuals who come to experience its terrifying properties.