The Haunting Of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
Rating (1-5) 📘📘📘📘
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Format - Audio Book
*Amazon Blurb*
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 a notoriously unfriendly pile called 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 powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
*My Review*
This book had me hooked, but then let me down.
The book is about four people getting together to stay at Hill House and to keep a notebook of any strange behavior they experience. The book changes the point of view from the four people that are staying there, but it was easy to follow along. I didn't like how none of them ever seemed to write anything down. It also seemed to take forever for anything to happen in the house and when it did it wasn't anything I was expecting....meaning it was kind of boring.
The house is supposed to be haunted so I really thought there would be all kinds of incidents during the stay, but it just seems like the only incident was them getting lost in the big house.
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