# The Haunting of Hill House

**Author(s):** Shirley Jackson
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**Genres:** haunted-house, literary-fiction, horror, psychological-thriller, ghosts
**Pages:** 283
**Publisher:** Chivers
**Published:** Mon Oct 22 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781445836348
**ISBN-10:** 1445836343
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-haunting-of-hill-house

## Description

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.

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**Themes:** Gothic, Chosen One