The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Hardie Jackson is an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Her writing career spanned more than two decades. During her time she produced six novels, Two Memoirs and more than 200 short stories.
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson is a masterpiece of psychological horror that explores the nature of fear. Solitude and supernatural things. The novel follows Eleanor Vance, a lonely and emotionally fragile young woman, who joins a group of individuals investigating paranormal activity at the mysterious Hill House. An unstable mansion with a dark past. As strange and frightening events proceed Eleanor's sense of reality was increasing, of uncertainty, of real mental torture...of ghostly infiltration. And the lines of the story are blurred. The story expertly creates suspense through an intense atmosphere, complex character and vague horrors. It concludes with an exploration of human frailty and the evil forces of the unknown...