The greatest haunted house story ever written—the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series!
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 lighthearted 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.
On sale: October 9, 2018
Grade: Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
Page count: 240 Pages
ISBN: 9780143134190
Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco on December 14, 1916. She first received wide critical acclaim for “The Lottery,” which was published in
The New Yorker in 1948 and went on to become one of the most anthologized stories in American literature. She is the author of six novels, including
The Haunting of Hill House and
We Have Always Lived in the Castle; four collections of short stories and essays, including
Just an Ordinary Day; and two family memoirs,
Life Among the Savages and
Raising Demons. For many years she lived in North Bennington, Vermont, with her husband, the renowned literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, and their four children. She died on August 8, 1965.
"[One of] the only two great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years.” —Stephen King
"The scariest book I’ve ever read." —Carmen Maria Machado, author of
Her Body and Other Parties"The books that have profoundly scared me...are few....But Shirley Jackson's
The Haunting of Hill House beat them all...It scared me as a teenager and it haunts me still."—Neil Gaiman, author of
Norse Mythology
