When a supernatural phenomenon investigator stays with his companions at Hill House, it begins to unfold itself to its guests on the very first night. It divulges its horrors to them steadily but mostly suddenly. It may be choosy in its offerings but it has among them a favourite who will certainly not miss many of them.
The Haunting of Hill House is a remarkable horror novel. It compels its readers to confront the phantoms of their psyche, consequently adding them to those in the story to heighten the climax. It has been adapted for stage and screen on many occasions.

About the Author

Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story, The Lottery , was first published in the New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic American stories of all time. Her first novel, The Road Through the Wall, was published in the same year and was followed by Hangsaman, The Bird s Nest, The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, widely seen as her masterpiece. In addition to her dark, brilliant novels, she wrote lightly fictionalized magazine pieces about family life with her four children and her husband, the critic Stanley Edgar Hyman. Shirley Jackson died in 1965.