The Haunting of Hill House
Back Cover Text:"Makes your blood chill and your scalp prickle...Shirley Jackson is the master of the haunted tale." - The New York Times Book Review
Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedge, Hill House broods and waits....
Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be only a spooky encounter with inexplicable noises and self-closing doors, but Hill House is gathering its powers and will soon choose one of them to make its own....
"Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as leader in the field of beautifully written, quiet, cumulative shudders." - Dorothy Parker, Esquire