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The Haunting of Hill House
  • Published: 9 November 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141191447
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $28.00

The Haunting of Hill House

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Paperback
9 Nov 2009
Hardback
28 Jan 2025
Hardback
23 Oct 2013
EBook
1 Oct 2009
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'As nearly perfect a haunted-house tale as I have ever read' - Stephen King

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 and lighthearted assistant; Luke, the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begin to cope with chilling, even 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.
  • Published: 9 November 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141191447
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $28.00
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Praise for The Haunting of Hill House

Stepping into Hill House is like stepping into the mind of a madman; it isn't long before you weird yourself out

Stephen King

The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... She is a true master

A. M. Homes

One of the twentieth century's most luminous and strange American writers

Jonathan Lethem

Her books penetrate keenly to the terrible truths which sometimes hide behind comfortable fictions, to the treachery beneath cheery neighborhood faces and the plain manners of country folk

Donna Tartt

She is the finest master...of the cryptic, haunted tale

The New York Times Book Review

A novel which at one stroke puts her unquestionably among the great masters of the genre . . . as spine-chilling . . . as anything Edgar Allan Poe dreamed up.

Peter Green, Daily Telegraph