The Haunting of Hill House: Shirley Jackson (Penguin Clothbound Classics) - Hardcover

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Jackson, Shirley

 
9780241689646: The Haunting of Hill House: Shirley Jackson (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0241689643 ISBN 13: 9780241689646
Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2024

Synopsis

A beautifully designed clothbound edition of Shirley Jackson’s chilling tale of power and fear

Hunting for evidence of the occult, Dr Montague invites three participants to Hill House: Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, set to inherit the estate; and Eleanor a fragile young woman with a troubled past. As The House takes hold, Jackson plumbs the depths of the human condition, asking the electric question: will any of them make it out? This definitive horror novel blurs the lines between reality and imagination, between dream and nightmare. Beautiful, atmospheric and utterly terrifying, Jackson’s magnum opus examines the shadows that lurk not just in cobwebbed corners, but in the facets of our very minds.

'The Haunting of Hill House rewrote horror’s rules' Guardian

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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.

From the Back Cover

A beautifully designed clothbound edition of Shirley Jackson's chilling tale of power and fear.

Hunting for evidence of the occult, Dr Montague invites three participants to Hill House: Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, set to inherit the estate; and Eleanor a fragile young woman with a troubled past. As The House takes hold, Jackson plumbs the depths of the human condition, asking the electric question: will any of them make it out? This definitive horror novel blurs the lines between reality and i

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Publisher
Penguin Classics
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0241689643
ISBN 13 
9780241689646
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
224