The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson, Laura Miller, Laura Miller

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Penguin
23 October 2013

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Horror & ghost stories; Possession; Ghosts Horror

Series: Penguin Classic Horror

Part of a six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy award-winning director Guillermo del Toro.

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 light-hearted 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.

Adapted into a film, The Haunting, starring Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Owen Wilson, The Haunting of Hill House is a powerful work of slow-burning psychological horror.

The Haunting of Hill House is coming to Netflix as a 10-episode limited series.

By: Shirley Jackson
Introduction by: Laura Miller, Laura Miller
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 217mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 403g
ISBN: 9780143122357
ISBN 10: 0143122355
Series: Penguin Classic Horror
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 23 October 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) received wide critical acclaim for her short story The Lottery, which was first published in the New Yorker in 1948. Her novels include We Have Always Lived in the Castle, The Sundial, and T he Haunting of Hill House. <br>Guillermo del Toro is a film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, and designer. He is best known as the director of the Academy Award-winning film Pan's Labyrinth and the Hellboy franchise. His latest film, Pacific Rim, premieres in the summer of 2013. He is also the foreword author to the Penguin Classics edition of The White People and Other Weird Stories by Arthur Machen.

Reviews for The Haunting of Hill House

Praise for Penguin Horror Classics: The new Penguin Horror editions, selected by Guillermo del Toro, feature some of the best art-direction (by Paul Buckley) I've seen in a cover in quite some time. - Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing Each cover does a pretty spectacular job of evoking the mood of the title in bold, screenprint-style iconography. - Dan Solomon, Fast Company