The Haunting of Hill House
  • Published: 28 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241689646
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $40.00

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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A beautifully designed clothbound edition of Shirley Jackson’s chilling tale of power and fear

Hunting for evidence of the occult, Dr Montague invites three participants to Hill House: Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, set to inherit the estate; and Eleanor, a fragile young woman with a troubled past. As The House takes hold, Jackson plumbs the depths of the human condition, asking the electric question: will any of them make it out? This definitive horror novel blurs the lines between reality and imagination, between dream and nightmare. Beautiful, atmospheric and utterly terrifying, Jackson’s magnum opus examines the shadows that lurk not just in cobwebbed corners, but in the facets of our very minds.
  • Published: 28 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241689646
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $40.00
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About the author

Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco in 1916. She first received wide critical acclaim for her short story 'The Lottery', which was published in 1949. Her novels - which include The Sundial, The Bird's Nest, Hangsaman, The Road through the Wall, We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House - are characterised by her use of realistic settings for tales that often involve elements of horror and the occult. Raising Demons and Life Among the Savages are her two works of nonfiction. Come Along With Me is a collection of stories, lectures, and part of the novel she was working on when she died in 1965.

Also by Shirley Jackson

Life Among the Savages
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: Popular Penguins
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Daemon Lover
The Lottery
The Missing Girl
Just an Ordinary Day
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Praise for The Haunting of Hill House

The scariest book I’ve ever read ... I read it one night next to my sleeping wife and found myself unable to move, unable to go to bed, unable to do anything except keep reading and praying the shadows around me didn’t move

Carmen Maria Machado, The New York Times

Shirley Jackson’s "The Haunting of Hill House" beats them all: a maleficent house, real human protagonists, everything half-seen or happening in the dark. It scared me as a teenager and it haunts me still, as does Eleanor, the girl who comes to stay

Neil Gaiman, The New York Times

the haunted house novel. All others stand in its shadow

Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts

The Haunting of Hill House rewrote horror’s rules

Alison Flood, Guardian