The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genreFirst published in 1959 Shirley Jacksons The Haunting of Hill House has beenhailed as ... » 

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genreFirst published in 1959 Shirley Jacksons The Haunting of Hill House has beenhailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekerswho arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House Dr. Montague anoccult scholar looking for solid evidence of a haunting Theodora hislighthearted assistant Eleanor a friendless fragile young woman wellacquainted with poltergeists and Luke the future heir of Hill House. Atfirst their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter withinexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powersand soon it willchoose one of them to make its own. «