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PENGUIN CLASSICS HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

Shirley Jackson - Author
Laura Miller - Introduction by
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Book: Paperback | 210 x 133mm | 208 pages | ISBN 9780143039983 | 28 Nov 2006 | Penguin Classics | 18 - AND UP
PENGUIN CLASSICS HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre

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.