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One thing is for certain when you read, The Haunting of Hill House, and that one thing is that Shirley Jackson was born to write. The Haunting of Hill House is a rare treat of her buttery prose and mysterious inuendo.

The introduction of this version of Hill House, should be read after you read the book of Hill House, it's filled with insights into the book and into Shirley's life. Definately, don't skip it but it will spoil the end of Hill House so read it afterwards and enjoy it. It is filled will interesting tidbits and information.

The Haunting of Hill House is a rare treat, as Shirley only wrote a handful of books before her early death. Dr. Montague who has an interest in Hill House invites a few guest to stay a month or so at the mysterious Hill House just to see what happens. He chooses Eleanor, Theodora, and Luke as his roommates for various reasons. The character the reader becomes most familiar with is Eleanor, who has a delightful ride to the house as she has not had a happy life of her own, but a life filled with servitude with her invalid mother and then suffers a dull, unhappy life with her sister and her husband. She has issues even before she arrives at the vile, gothic manor. To me her drive up was my favorite part of the book. Eleanor is released from the prison of living with her sister and is on a fresh adventure where she enjoys every single moment of her new found freedom. Her drive to Hill House is superbly written in prose that is meant to be savored.

The house itself indeed has spooky undertones upon everyone's arrival. Mrs. Dudley was a wonderful character who announces that she leaves after dark and no one in the village will hear anyone in Hill House if they scream, in the dark, and in the night. She has a well rehearsed agenda that she repeats to all the visitors and it's a warning if I have ever heard one.

The great thing about Hill House is the sublety. There is no slasher killing anyone, it's a series of mysterious knockings and feelings and sensory experiences. Eleanor is telling the story and she is revealing that Hill House is taking her over so much as she can feel the dust settle in the attic. It's mysterious and creepy.

I enjoy Shirley Jackson's writing and in comparison to many authors she is a literary gem. She can write and Hill House is a great example of her talent. You should read Hill House on a stormy night, when the fire in your fireplace flickers and crackles from the howling wind outside. Be ready for a rare treat.


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The Haunting of Hill House Penguin Classics Shirley Jackson Laura Miller Books Reviews

For reasons which pass understanding, I had never read this book before now. This, in spite of having been a huge fan of the film (the 1963 version, not the awful 90s remake) since I was eleven years old.  How is that even possible? I guess it just felt as if I had, since I was so familiar with the movie.  And yes, I know it's not the same thing, but it's a hella fine film and, as I discovered as I finally read the book, it is surprisingly true to the original text.

Yes, of course there are differences, but predictable ones like cutting for length. After all, films are able to tell us more in less time than a book can. The characters are fairly consistent with the novel save for the doctor's wife who is, if anything, worse than her film version. The relationships are not precisely the same, but the spirit of those relationships and what they mean to the characters are true to those in the book.

What was different for me was that the book made me more uneasy about Eleanor, and  about how much of the book's horror is in her mind, or can be attributed to her poltergeist.  If you've read Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, you'll be familiar with the disorientation of not ever really knowing what's going on, whether it's supernatural, a mental aberration, or a combination of the two. And that, more than anything makes The Haunting of Hill House one of the most unsettling things I've ever read. 

It's gloriously well written; it gave me the wiggins in the first ten pages, and never really let up. But it's not throat-clutching horror, or jump-out-of-your-skin horror. Rather, it's a slow and even sad progress of the death of hope in the face of something overwhelming. The horror is that no matter the source, nothing can stop it. 

I'm not a fan of gorpy horror, buckets of blood and body parts being flung about.  Monsters don't scare me. People scare me.  What goes on in people's heads scares the bejeebers out of me, so this sort of horror?  It's my candy. And for my money, Shirley Jackson is one of the greatest horror writers ever.
One thing is for certain when you read, The Haunting of Hill House, and that one thing is that Shirley Jackson was born to write. The Haunting of Hill House is a rare treat of her buttery prose and mysterious inuendo.

The introduction of this version of Hill House, should be read after you read the book of Hill House, it's filled with insights into the book and into Shirley's life. Definately, don't skip it but it will spoil the end of Hill House so read it afterwards and enjoy it. It is filled will interesting tidbits and information.

The Haunting of Hill House is a rare treat, as Shirley only wrote a handful of books before her early death. Dr. Montague who has an interest in Hill House invites a few guest to stay a month or so at the mysterious Hill House just to see what happens. He chooses Eleanor, Theodora, and Luke as his roommates for various reasons. The character the reader becomes most familiar with is Eleanor, who has a delightful ride to the house as she has not had a happy life of her own, but a life filled with servitude with her invalid mother and then suffers a dull, unhappy life with her sister and her husband. She has issues even before she arrives at the vile, gothic manor. To me her drive up was my favorite part of the book. Eleanor is released from the prison of living with her sister and is on a fresh adventure where she enjoys every single moment of her new found freedom. Her drive to Hill House is superbly written in prose that is meant to be savored.

The house itself indeed has spooky undertones upon everyone's arrival. Mrs. Dudley was a wonderful character who announces that she leaves after dark and no one in the village will hear anyone in Hill House if they scream, in the dark, and in the night. She has a well rehearsed agenda that she repeats to all the visitors and it's a warning if I have ever heard one.

The great thing about Hill House is the sublety. There is no slasher killing anyone, it's a series of mysterious knockings and feelings and sensory experiences. Eleanor is telling the story and she is revealing that Hill House is taking her over so much as she can feel the dust settle in the attic. It's mysterious and creepy.

I enjoy Shirley Jackson's writing and in comparison to many authors she is a literary gem. She can write and Hill House is a great example of her talent. You should read Hill House on a stormy night, when the fire in your fireplace flickers and crackles from the howling wind outside. Be ready for a rare treat.