Spooky Book of the Day: October 27

Posted by Dana on 10.27.2010 at 2:17 pm

Going back to the classics again to really creep you out.  Warning:  DO NOT READ THIS BOOK ALONE… IN AN OLD, CREEPY HOUSE… WITH A STORM COMING… AND …. well, you get the idea.

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson

From the publisher:

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre. 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 the notoriously unfriendly 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 powersaand soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

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